DVD Video, Franz-Josef Selig (bass)
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedAlso contains the film 'Wagner's Dream' - a documentary about the making of the Metropolitan Operas new Ring cycle.
Das Rheingold
Lisette Oropesa (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde), Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Richard Croft (Loge), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia),...
Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's... — More…
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Opera Recording
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Diana Damrau (Konstanze), Olga Peretyatko (Blonde), Christoph Strehl (Belmonte), Norbert Ernst (Pedrillo), Franz-Josef Selig/Christoph Quest (Bassa Selim)
Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Ivor Bolton
in this Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail everything is germane to the text that Mozart set, and Loy makes work of depth and strong emotion from what can seem like an overlong comedy...every singer... — More…
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Will Hartmann (Tamino), Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Adrian Thompson (Monostatos), Ailish Tynan (Papagena)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Colin Davis, David McVicar...
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The Royal Opera Collection
Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keelyside, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Dorothea Röschmann, Mariusz Kwiecien, Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson
Antonio Pappano, Andris Nelsons, Colin Davis, George Benjamin, Philippe Jordan
