Blu-Ray Video, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Mari Eriksmoen (Susanna, Andrè Schuen (Figaro), Christine Schäfer (Countess), Bo Skovhus (Count), Elisabeth Kulman (Cherubino)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
Mari Eriksmoen (Fiordiligi), Katija Dragojevic (Dorabella), Mauro Peter (Ferrando), Andrè Schuen (Guglielmo), Elisabeth Kulman (Despina), Markus Werba (Don Alfonso)
Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Blu-ray)
Andrè Schuen (Don Giovanni), Ruben Drole, Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna), Mauro Peter (Don Ottavio), Maite Beaumont (Donna Elvira), Mari Eriksmoen (Zerlina)
Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Opera Collection
Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), László Polgár (Rocco), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino) Alfred Muff (Pizarro), Elizabeth Rae Magnuson (Marzelline), Günther Groissböck (Fernando), Boguslaw Bidzinski (First Prisoner) & Gabriel Bermúdez (Second Prisoner), Juliane Banse (Genoveva),...
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Haydn: Il mondo della luna
Dietrich Henschel (Buonafede), Vivica Genaux (Ernesto), Bernard Richter (Ecclitico), Christina Landshamer (Clarice), Maite Beaumont (Lisetta), Markus Schafer (Cecco)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) & Tobias Moretti (director)
With the ever-responsive Concentus Musicus, [Harnoncourt] duly mines the comically disruptive potential of Haydn's music with unabashed glee... The comic leads are ideally cast...an inventive,... — More…
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Opera Collection
Rodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Elizabeth (Rae) Magnuson (Donna Anna), Roberto Saccà (Don Ottavio), Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Elvira), László Polgár (Leporello), Matti Salminen (Il Commendatore), Oliver Widmer (Masetto), Isabel Rey (Zerlina), Cecilia Bartoli (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Despina), Liliana...
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Schumann: Genoveva
Juliane Banse (Genoveva), Shawn Mathey (Golo), Martin Gantner (Siegfried), Cornelia Kallisch (Margaretha), Alfred Muff (Drago), Ruben Drole (Hidulfus), Tomasz Slawinski (Balthasar), Matthew Leigh (Caspar)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) &...
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is often too four-square and unatmospheric in Romantic scores, but here his taut tempos and incisive phrasing are refreshing, making the rich choral passages splendidly... — More…
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Werner Gröschel (Kuno), Inga Nielsen (Agathe), Malin Hartelius (Ännchen), Matti Salminen (Kaspar) & Peter Seiffert (Max)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor & Ruth Berghaus (stage director)
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Alfred Muff (Don Pizarro) & László Polgár (Rocco)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Jonas Kaufmann and Camilla Nylund fearlessly [pack] every phrase with compellingly truthful shades of meaning. Harnoncourt's Beethoven is famously raw and earthy: strong on struggle and on the... — More…
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Harnoncourt: The Mozart Da Ponte Operas
Isabel Rey (Susanna), Carlos Chausson (Figaro), Eva Mei (Countess), Rodney Gilfry (Count), Liliana Nikiteanu (Cherubino), Elisabeth von Magnus (Marcellina), Robert Holl (Dr Bartolo), Volker Vogel (Basilio), Martin Zysset (Don Curzio), Werner Groschel (Antonio), Lisa Larsson (Barbarina), Rodney Gilfry...
All three operas are included in this box set of three Blu-ray discs featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Zürich Opera House in productions directed by Jürgen... — More…
