DVD Video, Stéphane Degout (baritone)
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Special offer. Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet
Stéphane Degout (Hamlet), Sabine Devieilhe (Ophélie), Laurent Alvaro (Claudius), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Gertrude), Nicolas Legoux (Polonius), Julien Behr (Laërte), Jérôme Varnier (Ghost of Old Hamlet), Yoann Dubruque (Horatio), Kevin Amiel (Marcellus)
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Choeur Les...
[Degout] gives one of his greatest performances here, marvellously sung and acted...it’s an extraordinary achievement. Devieilhe makes an outstanding Ophélie, touching and vulnerable, her coloratura... —
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Vidéo
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. George Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence
RecommendedStéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger), Peter Hoare (Mortimer), Samuel Boden (Boy/Young King)
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, George Benjamin, Katie Mitchell
His orchestral imagination is prodigious, and both as a composer and conductor he conjures up memorable soundscapes full of jittery tension…the entire cast seems convinced it is creating something... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th December 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Topi Lehtipuu (Hippolyte), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Aricie), Stéphane Degout (Thésée), Sarah Connolly (Phèdre), Jaël Azzaretti (L'Amour), Salomé Haller (Oenone), Marc Mauillon (Tisiphone / La Grande Prêtresse de Diane)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm, Ivan Alexandre
As a whole, Ivan Alexandre's production is appropriately stately and Antoine Fontaine's set seems superbly authentic...The drama in the first act coalesces around Sarah Connolly's powerful Phèdre,... —
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New. Opéra Comique Collection, Vol. 2
Carmen - Hamlet - Fortunio - La nonne sanglante - Lakmé
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Louis Langrée, Laurence Equilbey, Raphaël Pichon
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Stéphane Degout (Onegin), Sally Matthews (Tatyana), Lilly Jørstad (Olga), Bogdan Volkov (Lensky), Nicolas Courjal, (Gremin)
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Laurent Pelly, Alain Altinoglu
Degout is wonderfully aloof as the buttoned-up Onegin, his rich baritone rolling out phrase after phrase smoothly, his Russian diction superb...The star turn comes from Bogdan Volkov as a fresh-faced... —
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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Special offer. Delibes: Lakmé
Sabine Devieilhe (Lakmé), Frederic Antoun (Gérald), Stephane Degout (Frédéric), Ambroisine Bré (Mallika), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Laurent Pelly
Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and choir with dash and urgency, the period instruments adding a litheness to the textures – there is no room for false sentimentality. Pelly goes for... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Reinoud Van Mechelen (Hippolyte), Elsa Benoit (Aricie), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Phèdre), Stéphane Degout (Thésée), Séraphine Cotrez (Oenone), Arnaud Richard (Neptune/Pluton), Eugénie Lefebvre (Diane), Lea Desandre (Pretresse de Diane/Chasseresse/Matelote/Bergère)
Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon
The stylish staging…is a busy mix of ancient and modern, and it’s an outstanding show musically. Elsa Benoit as Aricie sets the vocal standard with her gorgeous opening aria; Reinoud van Mechelen’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Gounod: Faust
Piotr Beczala (Faust), Luca Pisaroni (Méphistophélès), Marina Rebeka (Marguerite), Stéphane Degout (Valentin), Isaac Galán (Wagner), Serena Malfi (Siebel), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Marthe)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real Madrid, Dan Ettinger, Àlex Ollé
The most stylish and idiomatic singing comes from Stéphane Degout's Valentin, brimming with conviction whatever this show throws at him. —
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Special offer. George Benjamin: Written on Skin & Lessons in Love and Violence
Stéphane Degout (baritone), Gyula Orendt (baritone), Peter Hoare (tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger), Peter Hoare (Mortimer), Samuel Boden (Boy/Young King), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone), Barbara Hannigan (soprano),...
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
Maria Bengtsson (Fiordiligi), Jurgita Adamonyte (Dorabella), Pavol Breslik (Ferrando), Stéphane Degout (Guglielmo), Rebecca Evans (Despina), Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Thomas Hengelbrock, Jonathan Miller
It’s a wry take on the opera, Miller emphasising that the plot is not so much about testing the fiancées’ faithfulness, but an adventure in self-discovery. —
