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Complete recordings of Die Walküre, the most popular opera from Richard Wagner’s Ring, can be stacked into a mountain. This one is conducted by the
This should clinch it: Jonas Kaufmann is the pre-eminent Wagner tenor of this generation. (Slated to sing Manrico soon, and judging from his Werther, he
One need only watch Angela Gheorghiu as Tosca, scratching her chin in puzzlement as she tries to figure out who Cavaradossi’s painting of Mary Magdalene
Stupendous playing by the Berlin Philharmonic, with remarkable orchestral detail, sharp attacks, and quick tempos make listening to this newly recorded Carmen an exhilarating experience.
Whenever I’m not listening to this opera, which is most of the time, I despise it. The plot’s intrigues are unclear, there are long moments
Taken from a pair of semi-staged concert performances in Lucerne in the summer of 2010, this is a most scrupulously rehearsed and performed Fidelio. Conductor
Jonas Kaufmann is the tenor-du-jour, and it’s easy to see why: Siegmund, Alfredo, Werther, Cavaradossi, Don José, Lohengrin–who does he think he is, Placido Domingo?
In the third act of Tosca our heroine advises Mario how to behave when the “fake” execution takes place. “Com’e la Tosca in teatro,” she
Vocally and histrionically, this is a fascinating Werther: Jonas Kaufmann remains the best non-Italian-repertoire tenor in the world (although his Alfredo Germont is pretty grand
Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch’s Die schöne Müllerin is as close to an ideal realization of Schubert’s song cycle as you can find on disc.
