POUL RUDERS
Selma Jezkova [Dancer in the Dark] (complete opera recorded in 2010) Ylva Kihlberg / Palle Knudsen / Hanne Fischer / The Royal Danish Opera / The Royal Danish Orchestra / Michael Schønwandt [ Dacapo DVD / DVD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] "Musically, the work is descended from Berg, in that its free tonality provides an expressive focus yet without the schematic framework becoming inflexible...The cast is dominated, as it needs to be, by Ylva Kihlberg's Selma: her dramatic soprano... |