Okka von der Damerau
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Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1869 Version)
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), Maxim Paster (Shuisky), Mika Kares (Pimen), Sergei Skorokhodov (Grigory), Okka von der Damerau (The Innkeeper), Alexey Tikhomirov (Varlaam), Hanna Husáhr (Xenia), Johanna Rudström (Feodor)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano
...this performance is excellent, beautifully sung and cogently paced. The cast is mostly Russophone, which ensures mostly accurate pronunciation...this version is in any case indispensable... —
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Record Review, 28th September 2019, Disc of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Hailey Clark, Golda Schultz (sopranos), Jennifer Johnston, Okka von der Damerau (mezzos), Giorgio Berrugi (tenor), Michael Nagy (baritone), Tareq Nazmi (bass)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris et al, Klaus Mäkelä
Mäkelä elicits enthusiastic lucidity from up to 400 participants...If this Mahler lacks a certain emotional chiaroscuro, the results are fresh and engaging, never religiose. —
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Highlights)
Matthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde - Die Walküre), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde/Brünnhilde - Siegfried), Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde - Götterdämmerung), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried - Götterdämmerung), Simon O’Neill (Siegfried - Siegfried); Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
With excellent sound, singing that is often way above average and a production team that appreciates the stormier elements of Wagner’s humbling rhetoric, we have a Ring that shoots straight... —
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Martin, F: Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke for contalto and orchestra
Okka von der Damerau (contralto)
Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi
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Special offer. Mozart: Serenade No. 10, 'Gran partita', Requiem (Fragment), Ave verum corpus [Live]
Michael Schade (tenor), Okka von der Damerau (mezzo-soprano), Christof Fischesser (bass), Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Münchner Philharmoniker, Philharmonischer Chor München, Zubin Mehta
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Special offer. Lieder im Volkston
Songs in the Style of Folk Music
Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Okka von der Damerau (mezzosoprano), Wolfgang Schwaiger (baritone), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Adrian Baianu (piano)
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Special offer. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Derek Welton (Wotan - Das Rheingold), Iain Paterson (Wotan - Die Walküre/Wanderer), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles
In finding the whole so much less than the sum of its parts, I return to the excellence of the singers, who deliver quite conventional accounts of their roles despite the non-canonical paraphernalia... —
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Goran Juric (Heinrich), Michael Konig (Lohengrin), Simone Schneider (Elsa), Martin Gantner (Friedrich), Okka Von Der Damerau (Ortrud), Shigeo Ishino (Der Heerufer), Staatsopernchor Stuttgart, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Cornelius Meister
However spartan the visuals, in many ways its sheer starkness enables it to hint at the central mysteries of the piece. Where the production triumphs is on the musical side, with each of the... —
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Special offer. Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen), Jordan Shanahan (Alberich), Aile Asszonyi (Gutrune/Dritte Norn), Thomas Lehman (Gunther), Okka von der Damerau (Waltraute)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Goran Juric (Heinrich), Michael Konig (Lohengrin), Simone Schneider (Elsa), Martin Gantner (Friedrich), Okka Von Der Damerau (Ortrud), Shigeo Ishino (Der Heerufer), Staatsopernchor Stuttgart, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Cornelius Meister
However spartan the visuals, in many ways its sheer starkness enables it to hint at the central mysteries of the piece. Where the production triumphs is on the musical side, with each of the... —
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