Lance Ryan
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
These DVDs of La Scala performances...are most notable for showcasing this conductor's supreme command of the epic lyricism that goes to the heart of the Wagner style...while Cassiers achieves... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Opera
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Strauss: Salome
Malin Byström (Salome), Doris Soffel (Herodias), Lance Ryan (Herodes), Evgeny Nikitin (Jochanaan), Peter Sonn (Narraboth)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Wagner: Siegfried
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2012
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Bronder (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Anna Larsson (Erda) & Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde)
Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Guy Cassiers (stage director)
Not only does Barenboim have complete control of the shape of Wagner's enormous acts, but there are enormous numbers of details, often witty and pertinent, and immense climaxes...[Stensvold]... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Marsh (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Magnús Baldvinsson (Fafner), Meredith Arwady (Erda), Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Kateryna Kasper (Woodbird)
Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchester, Sebastian Weigle
Weigle conducts superbly, bringing many original and fine ideas to this amazingly fresh score and building up great momentum over entire acts...[Bullock's] awakening is shrill and insecure,... —
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Wagner: Orchestral Music from The Ring of the Nibelungen
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
the aspects praised most highly in the complete sets by both reviewers are the very ones specifically showcased on this new disc. There’s the expertly judged conducting of Sebastian Weigle,... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Jochen Schmeckenbecher (baritone), Julia Borchert, Katharina Kammerloher, Kismara Pessatti, Tomas Konieczny, Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano), Günther Groissböck (bass), Timo Riihonen, Christian Elsner (tenor), Kor-Jan Dusseljee, Antonio Yang, Andreas Conrad, Maria Radner...
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
Its greatest asset is Daniel Barenboim's conducting, less vigorous perhaps than his Bayreuth cycle but generally more fluent and sweeping, with fewer abrupt tempo changes, and the La Scala orchestra... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Markus Bruck (Gunther), Marina Prudenskaja (Waltraute), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Susanne Resmark (Erste Norn), Christa Mayer (Zweite Norn), Jacquelyn Wagner (Dritte Norn), Julia Borchert (Woglinde),...
there is much to enjoy and a lot to write home about...The sound of the orchestra really gleams throughout. The brass sound fantastic at the big climaxes...[Salminen's] acting leaps out of the... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Gregory Frank (Hagen), Claudia Mahnke (Waltraute/Zweite Norn), Johannes Martin Kranzle (Gunther), Anja Fidelia Ulrich (Gutrune), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Britta Stallmeister (Woglinde), Jenny Carlstedt (Wellgunde), Katharina Magiera (Flosshilde),...
Weigle, an experienced Wagnerian, paces the opera well, with dramatic thrust and epic expansiveness...Bullock's Brunnhilde has the spirit and plenty of it, but vocal strain is more apparent... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Juha Uusitalo (The Wanderer), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Erda)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
highly recommended, a refreshing antidote to leaden Teutonic representations. Wagner responds best to Romantic imagery, but this gives it a vividly original twist. —
