DVD Video, Wiener Symphoniker (orchestra)
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Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
sung in German
Tempu Ishijima (Amahl), Dshamilja Kaiser (Mother), Paul Schweinester (Kaspar), Nikolay Borchev (Melchior), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Balthazar)
Wiener Symphoniker, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Magnus Loddgard, Stefan Herheim
Your reaction will depend upon whether you’re ready to respond to the opera as tearjerking tragedy rather than feel-good family treat…Regardless, it’s all done with the highest possible production... — More…
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Umberto Giordano: Siberia
Ambur Braid, Clarry Bartha, Alexander Mikhailov, Scott Hendricks, Fredrika Brillembourg, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Valentin Uryupin
Playing and choral singing are superb. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Massenet: Don Quichotte
Gábor Bretz, David Stout, Anna Goryachova,
Wiener Symphoniker, Daniel Cohen, Mariame Clément
Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
Wolfgang Koch (Mathis), Kurt Streit (Albrecht von Brandenburg), Manuela Uhl (Ursula), Franz Grundheber (Riedinger), Slovak Philharmonic Choir
Wiener Symphoniker, Bertrand de Billy, Keith Warner
[Koch's] gentle charisma and sonorous vocal expressivity call to mind his own performances of Hans Sachs and, by extension, suggest a parallel between Mathis and Sachs...The score has a reputation... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Premiere Recording
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Bregenzer Festspiele
Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena)
Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Bregenz Festival Chorus, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl
The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Arrigo Boito: Nerone
Rafael Rojas (Nerone), Lucio Gallo (Simon Mago), Brett Polegato (Fanuel), Svetlana Aksenova (Asteria), Alessandra Volpe (Rubria), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Olivier Tambosi (staging), Dirk Kaftan
with punchy, dramatic playing from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Dirk Kaftan, the work is allowed to cast a strange, dark spell that is ultimately difficult to resist. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Bizet: Carmen
Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Holten says he’s keen to steer clear of the Spanish clichés on the one hand, and to examine Carmen as a real person on the other…It’s no earth-shattering insight but it does form the basis for... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Alfredo Catalani: La Wally
Izabela Matula, Leonardo Capalbo, Jacques Imbrailo, Ilona Revolskaya, Alastair Miles (bass), Barbora Horáková Joly (staging), Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker
Orozco-Estrada conducts the Vienna Symphony with plenty of passion and punch...All in all, then, a powerful, intelligent account of this fine verismo work. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: Falstaff
Otto Edelmann (Sir John Falstaff), Elisabeth Höngen (Mrs. Quickly), Melitta Muszely (Mrs. Alice Ford), Graziella Sciutti (Nannetta), Hans Günter Grimm (Ford) & Richard Von Vrooman (Fenton)
Wiener Symphoniker, Nello Santi (conductor) & Hellmuth Matiasek (director)
The picture has been scrubbed up to look remarkably clean for its age...Otto Edelmann plays a blessedly unexaggerated Falstaff...Nello Santi conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with an Italianate... — More…
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Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Andrew Foster-Williams (Faraone), Mandy Fredrich (Amaltea), Sunnyboy Dladla (Osiride), Clarissa Costanzo (Elcia), Taylan Reinhard (Mambre), Goran Jurić (Mosè), Matteo Macchioni (Aronne), Dara Savinova (Amenofi)
Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Lotte De Beer
As Osiride, Sunnyboy Dladla is a useful bel canto tenor…and Andrew Foster-Williams is a stern voiced Pharoah. Best of all is the young Italian soprano, Clarissa Costanzo, who rightly stops... — More…