Bayerische Staatsoper
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Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
RecommendedDiana Damrau (Rosalinde), Georg Nigl (Eisenstein), Katharina Konradi (Adele), Andrew Watts (Orlofsky), Sean Panikkar (Alfred), Markus Brück (Dr Falke)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Barrie Kosky
Right from the off, it just feels right. Kosky is in his element. Whatever your views on his approach to mainstream repertoire, few living directors have thought more carefully about Central... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2024
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Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Karl Ridderbusch (Ochs), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Annelie Waas (Marianne), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Margarethe Bence (Annina) & Gerhard Unger (Italian singer)
Bavarian State Opera, Carlos Kleiber
This performance from 1973 is notable for its extraordinary textural clarity, in this densest of scores, and its rhythmic vitality. The vocal hero of the occasion is Brigitte Fassbaender as... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta
RecommendedMirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta)
Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch,...
[Mesak] makes an entirely convincing Iolanta, poised between innocence and experience, and singing with blazing conviction opposite Long Long’s lyrically ardent Vaudémont. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent (Mesak & Ioffe)
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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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Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
RecommendedDiana Damrau (Rosalinde), Georg Nigl (Eisenstein), Katharina Konradi (Adele), Andrew Watts (Orlofsky), Sean Panikkar (Alfred), Markus Brück (Dr Falke)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Barrie Kosky
Right from the off, it just feels right. Kosky is in his element. Whatever your views on his approach to mainstream repertoire, few living directors have thought more carefully about Central... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2024
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedIleana Cotrubas (Violetta Valery), Stefania Malagu (Flora Bervoix), Helena Jungwirth (Annina), Placido Domingo (Alfredo Germont), Sherrill Milnes (Giorgio Germont), Walter Gullino (Gastone), Bruno Grella (Barone Douphol) Alfredo Giacomotti (Marchese d’Obigny), Giovanni Foiani (Dottore Grenvil), Walter...
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Building a Library, January 2007, First Choice
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Special offer. Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta
RecommendedMirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta)
Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch,...
[Mesak] makes an entirely convincing Iolanta, poised between innocence and experience, and singing with blazing conviction opposite Long Long’s lyrically ardent Vaudémont. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent (Mesak & Ioffe)
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
René Kollo (Tannhäuser), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram), Nadine Secunde (Elisabeth), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Hermann); Bayerische Staatsoper, Zubin Mehta (conductor) & David Alden (director)
