Arthaus Musik
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Verdi: Luisa Miller
Olesya Golovneva (Luisa Miller), Vladislav Sulimsky (Miller), Taras Shtonda (Count Walter) & Luc Robert (Rodolfo)
Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Michael Güttler (conductor) & Stefano Vizioli (stage director)
Golovneva is more than equal to Luisa's intimidating music. Blessed with a treasurable musicality, the Russian soprano also possesses the necessary agility...and stamina...Slight of figure,... —
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Weinberg: The Passenger, Op. 97
Michelle Breedt (Lisa), Roberto Sacca (Walter), Elena Kelessidi (Martha), Artur Rucinski (Tadeusz), Svetlana Doneva (Katja), Liuba Sokolova (Bronka), Angelica Voje (Krzystina)
Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Teodor Currentzis
[This] production had the knife-edge atmosphere of a major rediscovery, and it features strong performances from most of the principals and from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis... —
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Anne Sofie von Otter (Marguerite), Keith Lewis (Faust), José van Dam (Méphistophélès) & Peter Rose (Brander)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Georg Solti
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Britten‘s War Requiem: 50th anniversary in Coventry
Erin Wall (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons
The three soloists are not, perhaps, quite as eminently as the originals, but they're all excellent...[Nelsons's] un-English reading, more tautly controlled and vigorous than Britten's own,... —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
René Pape (Figaro), Dorothea Röschmann (Susanna), Emily Magee (Countess Almaviva), Roman Trekel (Count Almaviva) & Peter Schreier (Basilio)
Staatskapelle Berlin & Staatsopernchor, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Thomas Langhoff (stage director)
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Strauss, R: Salome
Erika Sunnegårdh (Salome), Mark S. Doss (Jochanaan), Robert Brubaker (Herodes) & Dalia Schaechter (Herodias)
Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Nicola Luisotti (conductor) & Gabriele Lavia (stage director)
Sunnegardh is an experienced and impressive Salome, and she stays the course admirably here, cutting a svelte figure onstage; her dance, complete with full striptease, is unusually convincing...Mark... —
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