Pierre Audi
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Ulisse), Graciela Araya (Penelope), Toby Spence (Telemaco), Jaco Huijpen (Antinoo), Christopher Gillett (Pisandro), Diana Montague (Minerva), Brian Asawa (Anfinomo)
Baroque Ensemble Orchestra, Glen Wilson, stage direction by Pierre Audi
a masterpiece of controlled timing and patience —
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Burkhard Fritz (Waldemar), Emily Magee (Tove), Anna Larsson (Waldtaube), Markus Marquard (Bauer), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Klaus-Narr), Sunnyi Melles (Narrator)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Dutch National Opera, Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)
The whole production presents a formidable challenge to any opera house contemplating an alternative staging. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Burkhard Fritz (Waldemar), Emily Magee (Tove), Anna Larsson (Waldtaube), Markus Marquard (Bauer), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Klaus-Narr), Sunnyi Melles (Narrator)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Dutch National Opera, Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)
The whole production presents a formidable challenge to any opera house contemplating an alternative staging. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Rameau: Castor et Pollux
Anna Maria Panzarella, Véronique Gens, Finnur Bjarnason, Henk Neven, Judith van Wanroij, Nicolas Testé, Thomas Oliemans & Anders J. Dahlin
Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Pierre Audi (stage director)
Christophe Rousset directs a superb ensemble performance with a cleanly voiced choir and an acute ear for Rameau's pungent orchestration. Patrick Kinmoth's set and costumes have an austere,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en Tauride
Recorded live at De Nederlandse Opera, September 2011
Véronique Gens (Iphigénie), Salomé Haller (Diane), Nicolas Testé (Agamemnon) & Anne Sofie von Otter (Clytemnestre), Mireille Delunsch (Iphigénie), Laurent Alvaro (Thoas), Jean-François Lapointe (Oreste), Yann Beuron (Pylade) & Salomé Haller (Diane)
Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble &...
in this performance every cross-hatched, baleful figure is crisp and clear...Veronique Gens's submissive, poised Iphigénie [en Aulide] becomes Mireille Delunsch's red-eyed, hysterical Iphigénie... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en Tauride
Recorded live at De Nederlandse Opera, September 2011
Véronique Gens (Iphigénie), Salomé Haller (Diane), Nicolas Testé (Agamemnon) & Anne Sofie von Otter (Clytemnestre), Mireille Delunsch (Iphigénie), Laurent Alvaro (Thoas), Jean-François Lapointe (Oreste), Yann Beuron (Pylade) & Salomé Haller (Diane)
Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble &...
in this performance every cross-hatched, baleful figure is crisp and clear...Veronique Gens's submissive, poised Iphigénie [en Aulide] becomes Mireille Delunsch's red-eyed, hysterical Iphigénie... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise
Camilla Tilling (Angel), Rod Gilfry (Saint François), Hubert Delamboye (Leper), Henk Neven (Frère Léon), Tom Randle (Frère Massée), Donald Kaasch (Frère Élie), Armand Arapian (Frère Bernard), Jan Willem Baljet (Frère Sylvestre), André Morsch (Frère Rufin)
The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra &...
This Netherlands Opera production from Pierre Audi… is a triumph of wonderfully inventive, yet sympathetic direction. The imagery follows Messiaen's knack for sophisticated simplicity. His... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Tan Dun: Marco Polo
Charles Workman (Polo), Sarah Castle (Marco), Stephen Richardson (Kublai Khan), Nancy Allen Lundy (Water), Zhang Jun (Shadow 1/Rustichello/Li Po), Tania Kross (Shadow 2/Sheherazada/Mahler/Queen), Stephen Bryant (Shadow 3/Dante/Shakespeare) & Mu Na (Chinese/Arabian dancer)
Netherlands Chamber...
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Special offer. Rameau: Zoroastre
Anders J Dahlin (Zoroastre), Evgueniy Alexiev (Abramane), Sine Bundgaard (Amélite), Anna Maria Panzarella (Erinice), Lars Arvidson (Zopire/La Vengeance), Marcus Schwartz (Narbanor), Gerard Théruel (Oromasès/Ariman), Ditte Andersen (Céphie)
The Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra and Chorus &...
Christophe Rousset and his forces deliver an excellently paced reading and much of the singing is perfectly judged. Pierre Audi's production, while it moves the cast around efficiently enough,... —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Cynthia Haymon (Poppea), Brigitte Balleys (Nerone), Michael Chance (Ottone), Harry van der Kamp (Seneca), Ning Liang (Ottavia), Heidi Grant Murphy (Drusilla), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Arnalta), Dominique Visse (Nutrice), Claron McFadden (Valletto)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset, stage...
…mezzo-soprano Brigitte Balleys as Nero is credibly masculine without being theatrically butch, Ning Liang is darkly dignified as Ottavia, countertenor Michael Change (Ottone) and bass Harry... —
