Nikolai Schukoff
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Elektra
RecommendedIréne Theorin (Elektra), Jennifer Holloway (Chrysothemis), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Klytemnestra), Nikolai Schukoff (Aegisth), Iain Paterson (Orest), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner
Gardner’s conducting gives maximum scope to the phenomenal range of light and shade conjured by Strauss’s orchestration, all delivered superbly by the Bergen Philharmonic. While there’s no shortage... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th February 2026
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2026, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Zemlinsky: Eine Florentinische Tragodie
Aušrinė Stundytė (soprano), John Lundgren (bass-baritone), Nikolai Schukoff (tenor), Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
John Lundgren is the vengeful merchant, by turns vicious and oleaginous as he wheedles his rival. If the voice is expressive rather than lyric that’s all to the good and in contrast to Nikolai... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Glanert: Oceane
Maria Bengtsson, Stephen Bronk, Doris Soffel, Albert Pesendorfer, Nicole Haslett, Nikolai Schukoff, Christoph Pohl, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
Glanert’s music renders the action with captivating vividness. The opera is fabulously populated...And the fit of voices to roles is clearly evident. Maria Bengtsson’s exquisite vocal qualities—crystalline... —
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Opera, June 2020
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Composer of the Year
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Weinberg: The Passenger
Amanda Majeski (Marta), Daveda Karanas (Lisa), Nikolai Schukoff (Walter), Gyula Orendt/Stephen Waarts (Tadeusz); Orquesta del Teatro Real de Madrid, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Gražinytė-Tyla has an in-depth understanding of Weinberg’s music and creates a very powerful interpretation, leading a huge ensemble with a very strong cast...Before you listen to this recording,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Getty: Plump Jack
Lester Lynch (Falstaff), Melody Moore (Boy/Clarence), Suzanne Mentzer (Hostess - 'Nell Quickly'), Nikolai Schukoff (Hal), Christopher Robertson (Henry IV/Pistol), Robert Breault (Shallow/Fat Captain), Diana Kohrig (First Traveller), Bruce Ramkar (Warwick), Nathaniel Webster (Bardolph/Chief Justice),...
Getty's opera is stuffed with period-evoking quotations, and even this shortened 'concert-version', squeezed on to a single disc, feels long and unmemorable. But the strong cast makes a fine... —
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Kalman: Gräfin Mariza
Ursula Pfitzner, Gerhard Ernst, Marko Kathol, Nikolai Schukoff, Julia Bauer, Natela Nicoli
Festival Orchestra Mörbisch, Mörbisch Festival Choir, Rudolf Bibl
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Special offer. Schmidt, F: Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln (The Book of the Seven Seals)
Johannes Chum (tenor), Robert Holl (bassbaritone), Sandra Trattnigg (soprano), Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano), Nikolai Schukoff (tenor), Manfred Hemm (bass) & Robert Kovács (organ)
Tonkünstler orchester Niederösterreich & Wiener Singverein, Kristjan Järvi
Where this new version really trumps both the magisterial… Mitropoulos and the over-boxy… Harnoncourt is in the quality of the recording itself, excitingly atmospheric… and… throated choral... —
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Beer, Joseph: Polnische Hochzeit
Nikolai Schukoff (tenor), Alexander Kiechle (bass), Martina Rüping (soprano), Mathias Hausmann (baritone), Susanne Bernhard (soprano), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (baritone), Florence Losseau (mezzo-soprano), Friedemann Röhlig (bass), Bernhard Spingler (baritone)
Chor des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz,...
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Special offer. Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà
Svetlana Aksenova (Zazà), Enkelejda Shkosa (Aniade), Dorothea Herbert (Floriana/Madame Dufresne), Juliette Mars (Natalia), Nikolai Schukoff (Milio Dufresne), Vittoria Antonuzzo (Toto Dufresne), Christopher Maltman (Cascart), Tobias Greenhalgh (Bussy), Paul Schweinester (Courtois), Johannes Bamberger...
Loy manages to focus in his surgical, sparing way on the essentials...I just wish Leoncavallo’s 1900 opera was deserving of such a polished staging, as well as the diligent conducting by Stefan... —
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel
Ausrine Stundyte (Renata), Bo Skovhus (Ruprecht), Natascha Petrinsky (Hostess/Abbess), Elena Zaremba (Fortune-Teller), Nikolai Schukoff (Agrippa von Nettesheim/Mephistopheles)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Constantin Trinks, Andrea Breth
With both the setting and aspects of the story radically altered, the opera becomes even darker and more powerful...Aušrinė Stundytė has in recent years made the role of Renate her own; and... —
