Arthaus Musik
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Verdi: La Traviata
Ermonela Jaho (Violetta Valéry), Francesco Demuro (Alfredo Germont) & Vladimir Stoyanov (Giorgio Germont)
Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the Arena di Verona, Julian Kovatchev (conductor) & Hugo de Ana (stage director)
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Edith Mathis (soprano), Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
René Pape (Wotan), Stephan Rügamer (Loge), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Doris Soffel (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Anna Samuil (Freia), Anna Larsson (Erda), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Mime)
Teatro alla Scala, Dancers of the Eastman Ballet Company Antwerp,...
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Beatrice Di Tenda
Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House, Marcello Viotti (conductor), Edita Gruberova, Michael Volle, Stefania Kaluza, Raul Hernandez, Daniel Schmid
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Turnage: Greek
Quentin Hayes (Eddy), Fiona Kimm (Wife, Doreen, Waitress 1, Sphinx 2), Helen Charnock (Mum, Waitress 2, Sphinx 1), Richard Suart (Dad, Café Manager, Chief of Police)
The Almeida Ensemble, conducted by Steven Berkoff. Directed by Peter Maniura and Jonathan Moore. Play written by Steven Berkoff.
Here's the classic TV production of Turnage's seminal opera which presents the Oedipus myth within the degradation of Thatcher's Britain. Witty, disturbing and lyrical, it has lost none of... —
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Male Chorus), Kathryn Harries (Female Chorus), Russell Smythe (Tarquinius), Richard van Allan (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Anne-Marie Owens (Bianca), Cathryn Pope (Lucia)
English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend, stage direction by Graham...
Strong performances from cast members - notably Rigby's Lucretia and Opie's Junius - grace an impressive realisation of Vick's 1987 ENO production. —
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Hans Peter Hallwachs (Selim), Zdzisława Donat (Konstanze), Barbara Vogel (Blondchen), Horst Laubenthal (Belmonte), Norbert Orth (Pedrillo) & Martti Talvela (Osmin)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gary Bertini (conductor) & Günther Rennert (stage director)
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Verdi: Requiem
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Saimir Pirgu (tenor) & Orlin Anastassov (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
[Jansons's] Requiem is a series of coups d'etat in which the returns of the actual 'Dies irae' or the launch of 'Rex tremendae majestatis' are exciting aural shocks. He also devotes much time... —
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Beethoven Symphony No. 9: Ode to Freedom
Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger, Doris Soffel, James Wagner, Gwynne Howell
Gewandhaus Chorus and Orchestra, Kurt Masur
