Eric Owens
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Great Strauss Scenes
Christine Brewer (soprano), Eric Owens (bass-baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Brewer sails through the test. Her Elektra is a young woman shocked into life by the arrival of Orestes...her voice lightened to give her youth as she waits; and then comes a seemingly unstoppable... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedEric Owens (Porgy), Angel Blue (Bess), Latonia Moore (Serena), Golda Schultz (Clara), Denyce Graves (Maria), Frederick Ballentine (Sportin’ Life), Alfred Walker (Crown), Ryan Speedo Green (Jake), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, David Robertson
The chorus supplies precision and refulgent tone, while the orchestral playing is clean and idiomatic, with conductor David Robertson shaping an interpretation that is well-paced and offers... —
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Special offer. Mozart: Requiem
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Phyllis Pancella (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Eric Owens (bass-baritone), & Robert Nairn (double bass obbligato)
Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers
[Owens's] instrument sounds magisterial as it rolls along, matching well with the three remaining soloists. Elizabeth Watts is a luminous soprano. Phyllis Pancella can rely on the almost contralto-like... —
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Leoncavallo: I Medici
Plácido Domingo (Giuliano de' Medici), Carlos Álvarez (Lorenzo), Daniela Dessì (Simonetta), Eric Owens (Montesecco), Vitalij Kowaljow (Poliziano)
Florence Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Alberto Veronesi
Domingo [is] outstanding as Giuliano, Carlos Alvarez bold and bracing as his brother Lorenzo, and Daniela Dessì's rich tones and delicacy of delivery creat[e] a fine impression as Simonetta. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Leoncavallo: I Medici
Plácido Domingo (Tenor), Carlos Alvarez (Baritone), Daniela Dessi (Soprano), Renata Lamanda (Mezzo-Soprano), Fabio Maria Capitanucci (Bass-Baritone), Eric Owens (Bass), Vitalij Kowaljow (Bass), Carlo Bosi (Tenor), Arutjun Kotchinian (Bass-Baritone), Angelo Antonio Poli (Tenor), Alex Esposito (Bass),...
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Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Jessica Rivera, Russell Thomas, Eric Owens
Schola Cantorum Caracas, London Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
A Flowering Tree is Adams's most succinct, magical and overtly moral opera. Jessica Rivera's candid girlish soprano is similar in timbre to Dawn Upshaw… As the clumsy Prince, Russell Thomas's... —
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Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
Mark Schowalter (Piet the Pot), Barbara Hannigan (Gepopo), Eric Owens (Nekrotzar), Jennifer Black (Amada), Renée Tatum (Amando), Wilbur Pauley (Astradamors), Melissa Parks (Mescalina), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Prince Go-Go), Peter Tantsits (White Minister), Joshua Bloom (Black Minister)
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Verdi: Requiem
Russell Thomas (tenor), Eric Owens (bass), Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo), Angela Meade (soprano), New York Choral Artists (chorus)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
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Twilight of the Gods: The Ultimate Wagner Ring Collection
Bryn Terfel (Wotan/Wanderer), Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Eric Owens (Alberich)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine & Fabio Luisi
Terfel is the finest Wotan before the public today...Blythe's brief appearances as Fricka find her in superb voice...Kaufmann is extraordinary as Siegmund; the velvety-chocolate depths of his... —
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Verdi: Otello
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Carlo Guelfi (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Juan Francisco Gatell (Cassio), Michael Spyres (Roderigo), Paolo Battaglia (Montano), Eric Owens (Lodovico) & David Govertsen (Herald)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus,...
tip-top precision from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra players. They reach a level of pristine excellence that any opera house orchestra- no matter how eminent- would struggle to equal...[Stoyanova's]... —
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