Blu-Ray Video, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
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Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg
RecommendedElena Tsallagova (Donna Clara), Emily Magee (Ghita), David Butt Philip (Der Zwerg), Mick Morris Mehnert (Der Zwerg - actor), Philipp Jekal (Don Estoban)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles, Tobias Kratzer (director)
This is a work that deliberately challenges audiences, but which is here played with a breathtaking combination of imagination and responsibility. Zemlinsky’s lush masterpiece is vividly presented... —
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Iain Paterson (Wotan), Annika Schlicht (Fricka), Tobias Kehrer (Hunding)
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles, Stefan Herheim
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Thomas Blondelle, Markus Brück (baritone), Andrew Harris, Tobias Kehrer, Annika Schlicht, Jacquelyn Stucker, Flurina Stucki, Deutsche Oper Berlin (opera company), Sir Donald Runnicles, Donald Runnicles
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Arabella
Sara Jakubiak (Arabella), Russell Braun (Mandryka), Elena Tsallagova (Zdenka), Doris Soffel (Adelaide), Robert Watson (Matteo), Albert Pesendorfer (Count Waldner), Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Tobias Kratzer, Sir Donald Runnicles
Sara Jakubiak is more a dramatic than lyric soprano, but phrases gloriously; she’s well matched with Russell Braun’s ardent baritone as a Mr Right from a far Austrian province who learns through... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Opera & Stage Choice
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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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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Maria Bengtsson (Christine), Philipp Jekal (Robert Storch), Thomas Blondelle (Baron Lummer), Clemens Bieber (Stroh), Markus Brück (Notary), Nadine Secunde (His Wife)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles,Tobias Kratzer
In short, unless you'd be too irritated by the updating and plot alterations, the result is sheer joy from start to finish, a top-notch realisation of one of the composer's lesser-known masterpieces. —
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Janáček: Jenufa
Michaela Kaune (Jenufa), Jennifer Larmore (Kostelnicka Buryjovka), Will Hartmann (Laca Klemen), Ladislav Elgr (Števa Buryja) & Hanna Schwarz (Grandmother Buryjovka)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)
If you like dramaturgical solutions to an opera hinted at rather than spelt out in capitals, this revival of Christof Loy's 2012 Deutsche Oper production may please. The action is lightly moved... —
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The UNESCO Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Erin Wall (soprano), Annika Schlicht (mezzo-soprano), Attilio Glaser (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Members of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, World Orchestra for Peace & Würth Philharmonike, Donald Runnicles
Appeals for peace and unity in Europe may ring hollow soon enough but the performance itself bears repetition, unfailingly lucid and rhythmically sprung in the Toscanini mould…The sound-mixing... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Iain Paterson (Wanderer) Ya-Chung Huang (Mime), Jordan Shanahan (Alberich)
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles, Stefan Herheim
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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
