Nina Stemme
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Special offer. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Farber), Nina Stemme (Die Farberin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Sebastian Holecek (Geisterbote)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
Stemme is focussed and expressive, and if Koch sometimes seems underpowered, that is only through comparison to her. Herlitzius is similarly impressive, and she and Stemme are sufficiently distinct... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Emily Magee (Sieglinde), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), John Lundgren (Wotan), Sarah Connolly (Fricka), Ain Anger (Hunding), Lise Davidsen (Ortlinde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano, Keith Warner
Pappano has always had a special relationship with the Ring’s second part…and the Royal Opera House Orchestra rewards him with some of its most sumptuous playing. The cast in this 2018 staging... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Opera Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - DVD/Blu-ray
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
RecommendedPlacido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimura (Brangäne), René Pape (König Marke), Olaf Bär (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), Ian Bostridge (Hirt), Matthew Rose (Steuermann) & Rolando Villazon (Seemann)
Orchestra & Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
At its best this 'Tristan' is overwhelming, leaving the listener shaken —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Nina Stemme (Leonore), Falk Struckmann (Pizarro), Christof Fischesser (Rocco), Rachel Harnisch (Marzelline), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino), Peter Mattei (Don Fernando)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Claudio Abbado
The real star of this performance...is the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, in whose hands the music seems to glow from within. The playing is thrilling throughout, with Claudio Abbado caressing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th June 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Opera
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Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder, final scenes from Capriccio & Salome
RecommendedNina Stemme (soprano), Gerhard Siegel (Herod)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano
…Antonio Pappano never gets to record more than bleeding chunks of the Strauss operas… Yet nothing illustrates better his genius for going straight to the theatrical heart of the matter than... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2007
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Emily Magee (Sieglinde), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), John Lundgren (Wotan), Sarah Connolly (Fricka), Ain Anger (Hunding), Lise Davidsen (Ortlinde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano, Keith Warner
Pappano has always had a special relationship with the Ring’s second part…and the Royal Opera House Orchestra rewards him with some of its most sumptuous playing. The cast in this 2018 staging... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Opera Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - DVD
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Placido Domingo, Nina Stemme, Olaf Bar, Rene Pape
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
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Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
John Tomlinson (The Dutchman), Nina Stemme (Senta), Eric Halfvarson (Daland), Kim Begley (Erik), Patricia Bardon (Mary), Peter Wedd (Steersman)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
Tomlinson, a favourite in the title-role at Bayreuth, now a veteran, is masterful as the Dutchman, exploiting his wide tonal and expressive range, with few signs of wear on the voice...[Stemme... —
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Peter Seiffert (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Janina Baechle (Brangäne), Stephen Milling (König Marke), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Kurwenal)
Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Welser-Möst
This new/old set is of absorbing interest for the conductor’s work with the score and the special strengths of his Isolde. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Wagner: Tannhäuser
Robert Dean Smith (Tannhäuser), Nina Stemme (Elisabeth), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide), Albert Dohmen (Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski keeps the score, which has some longueurs, moving and builds up impressive climaxes in each act...Prudenskaya, though her enunciation is vague, is adequately sexy...Stemme sound[s]... —
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