Regula Mühlemann
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The Cendrillon aria suits her talents closely, with her ethereal tone and confident coloratura skills. There’s some real magic here. Mendelssohn’s fairy-song ‘Neue Liebe’ has just the right... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Mühlemann makes everything sound easy. But it’s not just virtuosity, as the beauty of her voice also stops you in your tracks. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Record Review, 16th September 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Newcomer (singer)
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Klaus Florian Vogt (Tamino), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Regula Mühlemann (Papagena), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Paul Schweinester (Monostatos)
RIAS Kammerchor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Vogt shows no signs of lightening an oversized voice. In fact, it is impossible to guess that he isn’t a fresh young lyric tenor. By what vocal magic this was accomplished is beyond me, but... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Villazón)
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
RecommendedRolando Villazón (Tito), Marina Rebeka (Vitellia), Joyce DiDonato (Sesto), Tara Erraught (Annio), Regula Mühlemann (Servilia), Adam Plachetka (Publio)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Kammerchor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Apart from her gorgeous voice, DiDonato possesses a grace perfect for the role, soaring to expressive heights in her final six-minute aria…Marina Rebeka is DiDonato’s ideal vocal and dramatic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th July 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Opera Choice
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Her voice is gently luminous and true in pitch, her singing of a scale ideal for this acoustic – yet she can pack an emotional punch...The conductor’s steady, unhurried approach is refreshing... —
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Solo Vocal Recital (Opera)
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBejun Mehta (Orfeo), Eva Liebau (Euridice) & Regula Mühlemann (Amore)
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Václav Luks
At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... —
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Building a Library, July 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Thomas Hampson (Conte), Sonya Yoncheva (Contessa), Angela Brower (Cherubino), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Maurizio Muraro (Bartolo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Marcellina), Rolando Villazón (Basilio)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Hampson is a rock-steady Count…Yoncheva gives the Countess some real passion…Pisaroni’s Figaro is confident and spirited…Karg as Susanna is agile…Villazón’s Basilio is characteristically vivid —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Mühlemann’s soprano suits this repertoire, though its clear brilliant sound does turn hard at times…for a debut solo disc this makes an attractive proposition —
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Telemann: Reformations-Oratorium 1755, TWV 13:18
Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Benjamin Appl (baritone) & Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Reinhard Goebel
Barely an hour long, the oratorio's concision is accounted for by the sermon that would have divided parts 1 and 2. Cut free from this liturgical weight, the work is a contemplative affair...the... —
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (mezzo-soprano), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Michael Nagy (bass)
Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann
Only now and again does Hans-Christoph Rademann’s sprightly tactus work against the Affekt at hand…the high-impact openings to the odd-numbered cantatas come off best…Star of the show is Wiebke... —
