Georg Nigl
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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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The voice – a distinctive instrument offering a hint of Christian Gerhaher’s refined artlessness and some of the pleasingly acidic tang of Wolfgang Holzmair – changes according to the accompaniment:... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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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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Goebbels: Landscape with Distant Relatives
RecommendedDavid Bennent (speaker) & Georg Nigl (baritone)
German Chamber Choir & Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu
That music is a stylistic patchwork… with reference to Bollywood film scores and country and western punctuated by snatches of jazzy improvisation… and medieval pastiche. It shouldn't work... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Premiere Recording of the Year
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Coming soon. Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin
Georg Nigl (baritone), Alexander Gergelyfi (square piano)
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Simon O'Neill (Siegfried), Michael Volle (Der Wanderer), Peter Hoare (Mime), Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Franz-Josef Selig (Fafner), Gerhild Romberger (Erda), Danae Kontora (Waldvogel), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle shows a keen awareness of orchestral colour and brings an impressive dynamism to the music. His tendency is to be quite speedy – and there is certainly virtue in such an approach. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Orchestra of the Year
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In the purely instrumental pieces Gergelyfi demonstrates, via his arrangement of the fugal overture to the opera Die Zauberflöte, how the different 'voices' can be given different weight and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th July 2025
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This is genuinely revelatory stuff. Nigl is passionate about bucking the trend for performing Lieder in large venues, with modern concert-grands and quasi-operatic delivery, and for long stretches... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Emilio De' Cavalieri: Rappresentatione Di Anima Et Di Corpo
Anett Fritsch, Carlo Vistoli, Cyril Auvity, Daniel Schmutzhard, Georg Nigl, Florian Boesch, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, Robert Carsen
This Rappresentatione is as entertaining a sermon as you’re ever likely to see. Does it belong in the opera house? Carsen certainly makes a persuasive case. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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