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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (Recorded live at Salzburg Festival, August 2013) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival opera / Malin Hartelius (Fiordiligi), Luca Pisaroni, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Martin Mitterrutzner, Martina Janková / Christoph Eschen [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "Gerald Finley is a wryly humorous Alfonso. Under Christoph Eschenbach, the Vienna Philharmonic is admirably light on its feet." Gramophone |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Arabella (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen, Gabriela Beňačková / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ C Major / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2015 ] 2014 celebrates the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss. Arabella from this year´s Salzburg Easter Festival and is after Capriccio the second R: Strauss Opera C Major is releasing in 2014. Der Rosenkavalier from this year´s Salzburg Festival will be re |
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W. A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded the Salzburg Festival in 2006) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Rene Pape, Genia Kuhmeier, Paul Groves, Diana Damrau / Vienna Philharmonic / Riccardo Muti (cond) [ Decca Classics / Mozart 22 Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Jun/2016 ] "Gerhaher's beautifully enunciated Papageno and Kuhmeier's text-conscious Pamina have vocal class but they are given little to do as actors. Muti shapes good playing with po-faced grandeur ." (Gramophone) |
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HANS WERNER HENZE
Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids (Complete Opera) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Sean Panikkar, Russell Braun, Willard White, Nikolai Schukoff / Vienna Philharmonic, Kent Nagano [ Arthaus Musik Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Oct/2019 ] The opera, inspired by Euripides' tragedy The Bacchae, is as seductive as it is topical: When Dionysus - is he a charlatan? is he a demigod? - bursts into the intact world of ancient Thebes, he plunges a city into chaos. In stark contrast to his... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Die Frau ohne Schatten (complete opera recorded in 2011) Salzburg Festival / Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2012 ] Already brimming with symbols and transformations, the epic fairytale recounted by Strauss and his librettist Hofmannsthal in Die Frau ohne Schatten acquires a further allegorical dimension in Christoph Loy's inventive production for the Salzburg... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Die Frau ohne Schatten (complete opera recorded in 2011) Salzburg Festival / Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] Already brimming with symbols and transformations, the epic fairytale recounted by Strauss and his librettist Hofmannsthal in Die Frau ohne Schatten acquires a further allegorical dimension in Christoph Loy's inventive production for the Salzburg... |