Summer Opera - up to 40% off selected titles
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 12th August. Please note, downloads are not included in this offer.
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New. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Philipp Jekal, Maria Bengtsson, Thomas Blondelle, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles
It's difficult to account for the comedy's neglect. Done as well as it is here, with the entire cast entering into the spirit of the material, it simply lifts into the air. —
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Maria Bengtsson (Christine), Philipp Jekal (Robert Storch), Thomas Blondelle (Baron Lummer), Clemens Bieber (Stroh), Markus Brück (Notary), Nadine Secunde (His Wife)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles,Tobias Kratzer
In short, unless you'd be too irritated by the updating and plot alterations, the result is sheer joy from start to finish, a top-notch realisation of one of the composer's lesser-known masterpieces. —
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Thomas Blondelle, Markus Brück (baritone), Andrew Harris, Tobias Kehrer, Annika Schlicht, Jacquelyn Stucker, Flurina Stucki, Deutsche Oper Berlin (opera company), Sir Donald Runnicles, Donald Runnicles
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Special offer. Respighi: Marie Victoire
Takesha Meshé Kizart, Markus Brueck, Simon Pauly, Stephen Bronk, German Villar & Joern Schuemann
Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Michail Jurowski
Michail Jurowski marshals his forces with conviction, and Takesha Meshe Kizart seizes all the opportunies of the title-role to sing with velvet-toned warmth. —
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Intermezzo
Maria Bengtsson (Christine), Philipp Jekal (Robert Storch), Thomas Blondelle (Baron Lummer), Clemens Bieber (Stroh), Markus Brück (Notary), Nadine Secunde (His Wife)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles,Tobias Kratzer
In short, unless you'd be too irritated by the updating and plot alterations, the result is sheer joy from start to finish, a top-notch realisation of one of the composer's lesser-known masterpieces. —
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Markus Bruck (Gunther), Marina Prudenskaja (Waltraute), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Susanne Resmark (Erste Norn), Christa Mayer (Zweite Norn), Jacquelyn Wagner (Dritte Norn), Julia Borchert (Woglinde),...
there is much to enjoy and a lot to write home about...The sound of the orchestra really gleams throughout. The brass sound fantastic at the big climaxes...[Salminen's] acting leaps out of the... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Thomas Blondelle, Markus Brück (baritone), Andrew Harris, Tobias Kehrer, Annika Schlicht, Jacquelyn Stucker, Flurina Stucki, Deutsche Oper Berlin (opera company), Sir Donald Runnicles, Donald Runnicles
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Special offer. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Derek Welton (Wotan - Das Rheingold), Iain Paterson (Wotan - Die Walküre/Wanderer), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles
In finding the whole so much less than the sum of its parts, I return to the excellence of the singers, who deliver quite conventional accounts of their roles despite the non-canonical paraphernalia... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Derek Welton (Wotan - Das Rheingold), Iain Paterson (Wotan - Die Walküre/Wanderer), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles
In finding the whole so much less than the sum of its parts, I return to the excellence of the singers, who deliver quite conventional accounts of their roles despite the non-canonical paraphernalia... —
