Barrie Kosky
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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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New. Mozart: Così fan tutte
Federica Lombardi (Fiordiligi), Emily D’Angelo (Dorabella), Filipe Manu (Ferrando), Peter Kellner (Guglielmo), Kate Lindsey (Despina), Christopher Maltman (Don Alfonso), Orchester und Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
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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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New. Mozart: Così fan tutte
Federica Lombardi (Fiordiligi), Emily D’Angelo (Dorabella), Filipe Manu (Ferrando), Peter Kellner (Guglielmo), Kate Lindsey (Despina), Christopher Maltman (Don Alfonso), Orchester und Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
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Handel: Saul
RecommendedChristopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie...
Pivotal is Christopher Purves’s Saul – surely the father-in-law from hell should the Goliath-slaying David choose his daughter Michal (or son Jonathan – tenderly sung by Paul Appleby). Purves... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2015, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Saul
RecommendedChristopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie...
Pivotal is Christopher Purves’s Saul – surely the father-in-law from hell should the Goliath-slaying David choose his daughter Michal (or son Jonathan – tenderly sung by Paul Appleby). Purves... —
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2015, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Peter Kellner (Figaro), Maria Nazarova (Susanna - singing), Ying Fang (Susanna - acting), Andrè Schuen (Count), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Countess), Patricia Nolz (Cherubino)
Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
Kosky maintains comedy and seriousness in a near-perfect balance….Despite some reserviations, I recommend this warmly. Lively, intelligent, puzzling, wrong-headed: you will be entertained and... —
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Puccini: Tosca
Malin Byström (Tosca), Joshua Guerrero (Cavaradossi), Gevorg Hakobyan (Scarpia), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Barrie Kosky, Lorenzo Viotti
Kosky and Viotto, closely allied in style, find fresh, sometimes truly shocking energy...this must be one of the bloodiest Toscas shown on stage, in a world where the characters’ Christian faith... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Malin Byström (Tosca), Joshua Guerrero (Cavaradossi), Gevorg Hakobyan (Scarpia), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Barrie Kosky, Lorenzo Viotti
Kosky and Viotto, closely allied in style, find fresh, sometimes truly shocking energy...this must be one of the bloodiest Toscas shown on stage, in a world where the characters’ Christian faith... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Peter Kellner (Figaro), Maria Nazarova (Susanna - singing), Ying Fang (Susanna - acting), Andrè Schuen (Count), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Countess), Patricia Nolz (Cherubino)
Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
Kosky maintains comedy and seriousness in a near-perfect balance….Despite some reserviations, I recommend this warmly. Lively, intelligent, puzzling, wrong-headed: you will be entertained and... —
