Arthaus Musik
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Verdi: Otello
Hanns Nocker, Christa Noack, Vladimír Bauer & Hanna Schmoock
Orchestra and Chorus of The Komische Oper Berlin, Kurt Masur
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Mario Hoff (Wotan), Erin Caves (Loge), Tomas Möwes (Alberich), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Renatus Mészár (Fasolt), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Marietta Zumbült (Freia), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Nadine Weissmann (Erda); Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St.Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director)
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La Petite Danseuse De Degas
Museums / Deluxe Edition
Corps de Ballet & Orchestre de L’Opéra National de Paris
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Walter Berry (Don Pizarro), James King (Florestan), Christa Ludwig (Leonore), Josef Greindl (Rocco), William Dooley (Don Fernando), Lisa Otto (Marzelline) & Martin Vantin (Jaquino)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Artur Rother (director) & Gustav Rudolf Sellner (stage director)
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Die Rote Zora
Komische Oper Berlin, Catherine Larsen-Maguire (conductor) & Jasmina Hadziahmetovic (stage director)
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Alonzo King Lines Ballet
Studio Production from The Kerner Studios, San Francisco, 2011
Alonzo King Lines Ballet
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Verdi: La Traviata
Marlis Petersen (Violetta Valéry), Kristina Antonie Fehrs (Flora Bervoix), Fran Lubahn (Annina), Giuseppe Varano (Alfredo Germont) & James Rutherford (Giorgio Germont)
Oper Graz, Tecwyn Evans (conductor) & Peter Konwitschny (stage director)
Konwitschny is radical enough to introduce a character - silent, of course - whom Verdi and his librettist left out. That is Germont's daughter...Now to the musica performance: it is heavily... —
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Country Roads
The Heartbeat of America
featuring Justin Townes Earle, Caitlin Rose, John Carter Cash Jr., Kevin Costner
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Puccini: Tosca
Daniela Dessì (Tosca), Fabio Armiliato (Mario Cavaradossi) & Claudio Sgura (Scarpia)
Teatro Carlo Felice, Marco Boemi (conductor) & Renzo Giacchieri (stage director)
This is a good, conventionally designed Tosca, well sung and played and with a satisfying theatrical flair. —
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Verdi: Falstaff
Bernd Weikl (Sir John Falstaff), Adelheid Fink (Mrs. Alice Ford), Wioletta Hebrowska (Mrs. Meg Page), Carlos Aguirre (Ford) & Yanyu Guo (Mrs. Quickly)
Orchestra of The Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Uwe Sandner (conductor) & Bernd Weikl (director)
