UMBERTO GIORDANO
Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Blu-ray) Bayerische Staatsoper, Jonas Kaufmann, George Petean, Anja Harteros / Marco Armiliato (cond) [ BSO Recordings / Blu-ray - released 18/Aug/2023 ] First performed in 1896, Andrea Chénier is rightly regarded as one of the key works of verismo. With his melodrama about the historical poet André Chénier during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the composer Umberto Giordano created an... |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Giordano: Andrea Chénier Bayerische Staatsoper, Jonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), George Petean (Carlo Gerard), Anja Harteros (Maddalena di Coigny) [ BSO Recordings / DVD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] First performed in 1896, Andrea Chénier is rightly regarded as one of the key works of verismo. With his melodrama about the historical poet André Chénier during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the composer Umberto Giordano created an... |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: Die tote Stadt (complete opera recorded in 2019) Bayerische Staatsoper / Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen, Andrej Filonczyk, Jennifer Johnston / Kirill Petrenko (cond) [ BSO Recordings DVD / 2 DVD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE YEAR - WINNER - "There's a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Opera |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: Die tote Stadt (complete opera recorded in 2019) (Blu-ray) Bayerische Staatsoper / Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen, Andrej Filonczyk, Jennifer Johnston / Kirill Petrenko (cond) [ BSO Recordings Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "There's a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement." Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera |
Bayerische Staatsoper
1997-2005 Live [ Farao / CD - released 25/Aug/2008 ] |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (complete opera recorded in 2010) Bayerische Staatsoper / Alain Vernhes, Susan Gritton, Bernard Richter / Kent Nagano (conductor) [ Bel Air Classiques BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Jun/2011 ] "Tcherniakov's production is probably the most physically active Dialogues ever staged. Everyone is seemingly in constant motion...Sylvie Brunet is a memorably formidable and pitiable Croissy...Helen Guilmette's Constance, lively but never cloying or |
POULENC
Dialogues des Carmélites (complete opera recorded in 2010) Bayerische Staatsoper / Alain Vernhes, Susan Gritton, Bernard Richter / Kent Nagano (conductor) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2011 ] A passionate lover of the human voice, Francis Poulenc composed the Dialogues des Carmélites in 1953, using a libretto he himself had written from a screenplay by Georges Bernanos. |
Beethoven,
Symphonie No. 7 A-Dur op. 92 Bayerische Staatsoper, Carlos Kleiber [ ORFEO / CD - released 16/Dec/2005 ] |
ARRIGO BOITO
Boito: Mefistofele (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Bayerische Staatsoper München / René Pape, Joseph Calleja, Kristine Opolais, Karine Babajanyan / Omer Meir Wellber (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Making his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, director Roland Schwab (a protégé of the legendary Ruth Berghaus) plays devil's advocate by setting the opera in a nightmarish atmosphere. |
LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: From The House of The Dead (complete opera) Bayerische Staatsoper / Peter Rose, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Aleš Briscein, Charles Workman / Simone Young (cond) [ Bel Air DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "The cast is large and too numerous to acknowledge everyone, and there are no weak links. Bo Skovhus scores another career highlight as Šiškov and makes almost a mini-opera of his long scene." Five Stars OperaNow |
LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: From The House of The Dead (complete opera) BLU-RAY Bayerische Staatsoper / Peter Rose, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Aleš Briscein, Charles Workman / Simone Young (cond) [ Bel Air Blu-ray / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Death is never far away in Leo Janáeks work : in The Cunning Little Vixen, the main character falls under the fire of a hunter, Katia Kabanova kills herself, Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case has to deal with the hard consequences of eternal youth.... |
Wagner, Ri
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Frantz, Frick, Pflanzl, Peter, Hopf, Kuen, della Casa, Töpper, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper; Orchester der Bayerische [ ORFEO / 4 CD - released 22/Jul/1997 ] |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka (complete opera recorded in 2010) Bayerische Staatsoper / Kristine Opolais, Klaus Florian Vogt, Gunther Groissbock, Janina Baechle, Nadia Krasteva / Tomáš Hanus (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The soprano Kristine Opolais is a revelation in the title role and the music outstanding under Tomas Hanus's baton." (The Times) |