CD and DVD Reviews

DVD Reviews

Debussy:
Pelléas et Mélisande 1992 WNO, Pierre Boulez

Handel:
Rodelinda 1998 Glyndebourne, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Andreas Scholl, William Christie

Humperdinck:
Königskinder 2010 Operhaus Zurich, Jonas Kaufmann, Ingo Metzmacher

Janacek:

Katya Kabanova 2008 Madrid, Karita Mattila, Robert Carsen production

The Cunning Little Vixen 1965 Walter Felsentein film
From the House of the Dead 2007 Vienna Festival, John Mark Ainsley, Pierre Boulez, Patrice Chéreau

Monteverdi:
L'incoronazione di Poppea 2008 Glyndebourne, Danielle De Niese, Alice Coote

Purcell:
Dido and Aeneas 2008 L'Opera Comique, Christopher Maltman, Malena Ernman, Les Art Florissants, William Christie

Rameau:

Castor et Pollux 2008 De Nederlandse Opera, Veronique Gens, Les Talens Lyriques
Les Boréades 2003 Paris Opera, Barbara Bonney, Paul Agnew, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Robert Carsen production
Les Indes Galantes 2003 Paris Opera, Danielle de Niese, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants

Strauss:
Der Rosenkavalier 2009 Baden Baden Festspielhaus, Renée Fleming, Diana Damrau, Sophie Koch, Jonas Kaufmann, Christian Thielemann

Tchaikovsky:
Eugene Onegin 1994 Glyndebourne, Wojciech Drabowicz, Elena Prokina, Martin Thompson, Andrew Davis
Eugene Onegin 2012 De Nederlandse Opera, Krassimira Stoyanova, Bo Skovhus, Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Stefan Herheim production

Verdi:
La Traviata 2009 ROH Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Antonio Pappano

Il Trovatore 2011 Metropolitan Opera, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez


CD Reviews

Renée Fleming Poèmes Dutilleux, Ravel, Messiaen
Soile Isokoski Opera Arias and 3 Hymns Strauss
Jonas Kaufmann Wagner
Barbara Hannigan Correspondances Dutilleux
Malena Ernman Opera di Fiori