DVD Video, Prague Philharmonic Choir (choir)
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
4 CDs + DVD Video
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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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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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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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27 CDs + 3 DVD Videos
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Alfred Reiter (Sarastro), Norman Reinhardt (Tamino), Ana Durlovski (Konigin der Nacht), Bernarda Bobro (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Denise Beck (Papagena)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Wiener Symphoniker, Patrick Summers
For visual effectiveness this new DVD and Blu-ray has no competition among a rich field of Magic Flutes...Musically, too, it is never less than good, and the Tamino of Norman Reinhardt and the... — More…
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Bregenz Festival: Opera on the Lake Stage
Aida; Andrea Chénier; Die Zauberflöte; Turandot; Carmen
Tatiana Serjan (Aida), Rubens Pelizzari (Radames), Iain Paterson (Amonasro), Iano Tamar (Amneris), Kevin Short (Re), Tigran Martirossian (Ramfis), Ronald Samm (Messaggero), Elisabetta Martorana (Sacerdotessa), Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena...
