Naxos
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Puccini: La Bohème
Olesya Golovneva, Maria Fontosh (sopranos), Joachim Bäckstöm (tenor), Miklós Sebestyén (bass), Vladislav Sulimsky, Daniel Hellström (baritones)
Malmö Children’s Chorus & Malmö Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Christian Badea (conductor) & Orpha Phelan (stage director)
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Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (1841 version)
Samuel Youn (Der Holländer), Ingela Brimberg (Senta), Lars Woldt (Donald), Bernard Richter (Georg), Ann-Beth Solvang (Mary), Manuel Günther (Der Steuermann)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Marc Minkowski
Minkowski sounds totally at home in this ‘Romantische Oper’, pacing the drama unerringly without sacrificing spontaneity of phrasing. The orchestral playing...has all the warmth and impulsiveness... — More…
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
1859 version by Hector Berlioz
Marianne Crebassa (Orphée), Hélène Guilmette (Eurydice), Lea Desandre (Amour)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon. Aurélien Bory (director)
Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is a magnificent Orphée. Her bright, lyric mezzo is a bit more authoritative in the middle to upper registers than the lower one. But she sings with admirable... — More…
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Mascagni: Amica
Anna Malavasi, David Sotgiu, Pierluigi Dilengite, Marcello Rosiello & Francesca De Giorgi
Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia & Slovak Chamber Choir, Manlio Benzi (conductor) & Pavel Procházka (director)
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Krasa: Brundibar, etc.
Craig Sheppard (piano), Maureen McKay (soprano) & Laura DeLuca (clarinet)
Northwest Boychoir & Music of Remembrance, Gerard Schwarz
Former Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra maestro Gerard Schwarz, with musicians from his new base in Seattle, has performed [Brundibar] in a professional quality version of which this is... — More…
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Home Music Berlin - A Film By Jan Schmidt-Garre
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Olena Tokar, Jacquelyn Wagner, Roman Trekel, Iddo Bar-Shai, Zlata Chochieva, Severin von Eckardstein, Igor Gryshyn, Francesco Piemontesi, Matan Porat, Nicholas Rimmer, Jonathan Ware, Alexander Melnikov, Veronika Eberle, Isabelle Faust, Chris
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The Full Monteverdi
A Film by John La Bouchardière
Anna Crooks (soprano), Pano Masti (actor), Carys Lane (soprano), Alan Mooney (actor), Clare Wilkinson (mezzo), Mark Denham (actor), Katharine Peachey (actress), Anna Skye (actress), Gina Peach (actress), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (baritone) & Giles Underwood (bass)
I Fagiolini,...
John La Bouchardière who has taken these generalised, non-narrative musical expressions of love and tried to match them to a plot of his own devising. The whole thing is set mostly in a restaurant... — More…
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Adamo, M: Little Women - An Opera in Two Acts
Stephanie Novacek (Jo), Joyce DiDonato (Meg), Chad Shelton (Laurie), Stacey Tappan (Beth), Margaret Lloyd (Amy), Daniel Belcher (John Brooke), Chen-Ye Yuan (Friedrich Bhaer), Katherine Ciesinski (Cecilia March), James Maddalena (Gideon March), Gwendolyn Jones (Alma March) & Derrick Parker (Mr...
It's expertly staged and acted, and interesting to see the young Joyce DiDonato in repertoire far removed from her familiar one. — More…
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