Violeta Urmana
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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New. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Violeta Urmana (mezzo), Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
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Special offer. Prokofiev: War and Peace
Olga Kulchynska (Natasha), Andrei Zhilikhovsky (Andrei), Arsen Soghomonyan (Pierre), Violeta Urmana (Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova), Olga Guryakova (Peronskaya), Bekhzod Davronov (Anatole), Christina Bock (Marya Bolkonskaya)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov
The video is definitely worth seeing. If you have a good knowledge of the opera already from a more standard version, you’ll appreciate the in-jokes, such as the decision to take Prokofiev’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Video (Opera)
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Wagner: Love Duets
RecommendedPlácido Domingo, Deborah Voigt
Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano
It appears that in 1862, three years before Tristanand Isolde's première, Wagner hoped that the Schnorrs, his original Tristan and Isolde, would give part of the Love duet in a concert performance.... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Scenes from the Ring
Placido Domingo (tenor), David Cangelosi (Mime), Natalie Dessay (Waldvogel), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2002, Editor's Choice
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Boulez Conducts Mahler
RecommendedComplete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Rainer Keuschnig (organ), Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Michelle Deyoung (mezzo-soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Johan Botha (tenor), Juliane Banse, Twyla Robinson, Erin Wall, Adriane Queiroz, Michelle DeYoung, Simone Schröder,...
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Grammy Awards, 46th Awards (2003), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, May 2023, Also Recommended
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New. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Violeta Urmana (mezzo), Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Gambler
Asmik Grigorian (Polina), Sean Panikkar (Alexey), Violeta Urmana (Babulenka), Juan Francisco Gatell (The Marquis)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Timur Zangiev, Peter Sellars
This production, sympathetically recorded, and filmed with flair, is a complete triumph and it makes us realise what a masterpiece The Gambler actually is. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, DVD/Bluray of the Month
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Gambler
Asmik Grigorian (Polina), Sean Panikkar (Alexey), Violeta Urmana (Babulenka), Juan Francisco Gatell (The Marquis)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Timur Zangiev, Peter Sellars
This production, sympathetically recorded, and filmed with flair, is a complete triumph and it makes us realise what a masterpiece The Gambler actually is. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, DVD/Bluray of the Month
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Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann
Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano), Kaya Last (soprano), Martina Steffl (alto), Luise Gündel (alto), Hiroyuki Ijichi (bass), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Harnoncourt takes a Wagner-lite approach [to the Tannhäuser Overture], with gossamer textures rooted in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, a comparison that the antisemitic Wagner... —
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