Blu-Ray Video, Violeta Urmana (soprano)
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New. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Violeta Urmana (mezzo), Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
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Special offer. Prokofiev: War and Peace
Olga Kulchynska (Natasha), Andrei Zhilikhovsky (Andrei), Arsen Soghomonyan (Pierre), Violeta Urmana (Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova), Olga Guryakova (Peronskaya), Bekhzod Davronov (Anatole), Christina Bock (Marya Bolkonskaya)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov
The video is definitely worth seeing. If you have a good knowledge of the opera already from a more standard version, you’ll appreciate the in-jokes, such as the decision to take Prokofiev’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Video (Opera)
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Special offer. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Michael Volle (Wotan), Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Mika Kares (Fasolt/Hunding/Hagen), Robert Watson (Siegmund), Vida Miknevičiūtė (Sieglinde), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Rolando Villazón (Loge)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Christian Thielemann
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Special offer. Prokofiev: The Gambler
Asmik Grigorian (Polina), Sean Panikkar (Alexey), Violeta Urmana (Babulenka), Juan Francisco Gatell (The Marquis)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Timur Zangiev, Peter Sellars
This production, sympathetically recorded, and filmed with flair, is a complete triumph and it makes us realise what a masterpiece The Gambler actually is. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, DVD/Bluray of the Month
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The Searchers of the Grail
Parsifal | Indiana Jones | Adolf Hitler
Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Kirov Orchestra and Choir, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Tony Palmer (director)
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco), Violeta Urmana (Lady Macbeth), Letitia Singleton (Dama), Stefano Secco (Macduff), Alfredo Nigro (Malcolm)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris & Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Teodor Currentzis
Personal relationships are illuminatingly handled in spite of Tcherniakov's aversion to monologues. Home viewing produces, I guess, a more accessible experience than the audience had in Paris's... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Marcelo Álvarez (Riccardo), Violeta Urmana (Amelia), Marco Vratogna (Renato), Elena Zaremba (Ulrica), Alessandra Marianelli (Oscar), Borja Quiza (Silvano), Miguel Sola (Samuel), Scott Wilde (Tom), Orlando Niz (Judge), César San Martín (Amelia's servant)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real...
[Renato] is given a careful, possibly subtle reading by Marco Vratogna...You won't be short-changed by this DVD —
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Mika Kares (Hagen), Lauri Vasar (Gunther), Mandy Fredrich (Gutrune), Violeta Urmana (Waltraute), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Dmitri Tcherniakov
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Special offer. Jesús López Cobos conducts Mascagni & Leoncavallo
Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, in February & March 2007.
Violeta Urmana (Santuzza), Vincenzo La Scola (Turiddu), Dragana Jugovic (Lola), Viorica Cortez (Mamma Lucia), Marco di Felice (Alfio), Vladimir Galouzine (Canio), Maria Bayo (Nedda), Carlo Guelfi (Tonio), Antonio Gandia (Beppe), Angel Odena (Silvio)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid...
That both these productions work is largely due to Jesús López Cobos's theatrically vital and style-sensitive conducting and two strong casts. —
