Blu-Ray Video, Opernhaus Zürich (opera company)
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Peter Kálmán / Katsunori Kono (Papageno), Franziska Rabl / Rebeca Olvera (Papagena), Boguslaw Bidzilski / James Elliott (Tamino), Irini Kyriakidou / Christiane Kohl (Pamina), Sen Guo / Eugenia Enguita (Queen of the Night), Christine Zoller / Adréana Kraschewski (Lady), Jeffery Krueger (Monostatos),...
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Alfred Muff (Don Pizarro) & László Polgár (Rocco)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Jonas Kaufmann and Camilla Nylund fearlessly [pack] every phrase with compellingly truthful shades of meaning. Harnoncourt's Beethoven is famously raw and earthy: strong on struggle and on the... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Roberto Saccà (Florestan), Melanie Diener (Leonore), Alfred Muff (Rocco), Sandra Trattnigg (Marzelline), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino), Lucio Gallo (Don Pizarro), Krešimir Stražanac (Don Fernando)
Zurich Opera Orchestra & Zurich Opera Chorus, Bernard Haitink (conductor) & Katharina Thalbach...
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Fiorenza Cedolins (Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly), Francesca Franci (Suzuki), Mina Blum (Kate Pinkerton), Marcello Giordani (Pinkerton), Juan Pons (Sharpless)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director)
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Werner Gröschel (Kuno), Inga Nielsen (Agathe), Malin Hartelius (Ännchen), Matti Salminen (Kaspar) & Peter Seiffert (Max)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor & Ruth Berghaus (stage director)
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Opera Collection
Rodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Elizabeth (Rae) Magnuson (Donna Anna), Roberto Saccà (Don Ottavio), Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Elvira), László Polgár (Leporello), Matti Salminen (Il Commendatore), Oliver Widmer (Masetto), Isabel Rey (Zerlina), Cecilia Bartoli (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Despina), Liliana...
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Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel
Alfred Muff (Peter, a broom-maker), Gabriele Lechner (Gertrud, his wife), Liliana Nikiteanu (Hänsel, his son), Malin Hartelius (Gretel, his daughter), Volker Vogel (The Witch)
The Children‘s Chorus and the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) & Frank Corsaro...
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Special offer. Verdi: Falstaff
Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Meg Page (Judith Schmid), Mistress Quickly (Yvonne Naef), Massimo Cavalletti (Ford), Eva Liebau (Nannetta), Javier Camarena (Fenton), Peter Straka (Dr. Cajus), Martin Zysset (Bardolfo), Davide Fersini (Pistola)
Orchester der Oper Zürich...
the conductor starts apparently quite steadily. But this lack of a certain flick and bounce is compensated for by the focus of Daniele Gatti...places on Verdi's radically forward-looking orchestration...The... —
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Emily Magee (Primadonna/Ariadne), Michelle Breedt (Der Komponist), Roberto Saccà (Der Tenor/Bacchus), Elena Mosuc (Zerbinetta), Michael Volle (Ein Musiklehrer); Zurich Opera House, Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor) & Claus Guth (stage director)
Casting is first rate, with the Zerbinetta of Elena Mosuc stealing the limelight with an account of her big aria which prompts an ovation. Emily Magee's Ariadne is hardly less fine, ranging... —
