Tchaikovsky - Iolanta
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Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta
RecommendedMirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta)
Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch,...
[Mesak] makes an entirely convincing Iolanta, poised between innocence and experience, and singing with blazing conviction opposite Long Long’s lyrically ardent Vaudémont. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent (Mesak & Ioffe)
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (Iolanta), Sergey Skorokhodov (Vaudémont), Alexey Markov (Robert), Monika Bohinec (Martha), Junho You (Almerik), Lucas Meachem (Ibn-Hakia), Vitalij Kowaljow (King René)
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Villaume
Netrebko sounds radiant, if improbably imperious as the young, blind princess, who magically finds love and sight in the arms of the smitten Count Vaudémont, sung by rousing tenor Sergey Skorokhodov.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Olessa Golovneva (Iolanta), Alexander Vinogradov (René), Andrei Bondarenko (Robert), Dmytro Popov (Vaudémont), Vladislav Sulimsky (Ibn-Hakia), John Heuzenroeder (Alméric), Marc-Olivier Oetterli (Bertrand), Dalia Schaechter (Marta), Justyna Samborska, Marta Wryk (Laura)
Gürzenich Orchestra of...
as a young innocent, Golovneva's Iolanta is preferable to the fuller, darker soprano of Netrebko…Vinogradov's soft-grained bass is rock-solid and on magnificent form…Popov is in mellifluous,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Otto Von Rohr (René), Trude Eipperle (Iolanta), Rudolf Gonszar (Robert), Lorenz Fehenberger (Vaudémont), Rudolf Watzke (Ibn-Hakia), Olga Moll (Brigitta), Hetty Plümacher (Laura), Alfred Pfeiffle (Alméric) & Emma Mayer (Martha)
Radio Stuttgart, Hans Müller-Kray
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Special offer. Igor Stravinsky/Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Mavra/Iolanta
RecommendedMirjam Mesak (Iolanta), Long Long (Vaudémont), Boris Prýgl (Robert), Markus Suihkonen (King René), Oğulcan Yilmaz (Ibn-Hakia); Anna El-Khashem (Parasha), Freddie de Tommaso (Vassili), Noa Beinart (Mother/Marta)
Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Axel Ranisch,...
[Mesak] makes an entirely convincing Iolanta, poised between innocence and experience, and singing with blazing conviction opposite Long Long’s lyrically ardent Vaudémont. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent (Mesak & Ioffe)
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Yuri Mazurok, Nina Grigorieva, Tamara Sorokina, Valery Yaroslavtsev, Vladimir Atlantov, Klara Kadinskaya, Alexander Arkhipov, Larisa Nikitina, Bolshoi Theatre Choir, Yevgeny Nesterenko (bass), Vladimir Valaitis, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Mark Ermler
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Galina Gorchakova (Iolanta), Sergei Alexashkin (René), Gegam Grigorian (Vaudemont), Nikolai Putilin (Ibn-Hakia), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Robert), Nikolai Gassiev (Almeric), Gennadi Bezzubenkov (Bertrand), Larissa Diadkova (Martha), Tatiana Kravtsova (Brigitta), Olga Korzhenskaya (Laura)
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Michaela Gurevich (Iolanta), Arutjun Kotchinian (René), Ian DeNolfo (Vaudemont), Alexander Ben (Robert), Kurt Geysen (Bertrand), Georg Lehner (Ibn-Hakia), Jacqueline Miura (Brigitta), Keith Alexander Bolves (Almeric), Tatjana Tabachuk (Martha), Annette Kuhn (Laura)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra,...
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Galina Vishnevskaya (Iolanta), Nicolai Gedda (Vaudemont), Walton Gronroos (Robert), Tom Krause (Ibn-Hakia), Dimiter Petkov (René), James Anderson (Almeric), Fernand Dumont (Bertrand), Viorica Cortez (Martha), Tania Gedda (Brigitta)
Groupe Vocal de France & Orchestre de Paris, Mstislav Rostropovich
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Iolanta and The Nutcracker
Olesya Golovneva (Iolanta), Stefan Cerny (Rene), Georgy Vasiliev (Count Vaudemont), Andrei Bondarenko (Robert), Wiener Staatsballett, Orchester der Volksoper Wien, Lotte de Beer, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Omer Meir Wellber
Two important things you need to know: as this is the Volksoper, Iolanta is sung in German rather than Russian; and neither work is complete…de Beer does have something special to say about... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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