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Corigliano/Adamo: The Lord of Cries
RecommendedAnthony Roth Costanzo (Dionysus), David Portillo (Jonathan Harker), Jarrett Ott (John Seward), Kathryn Henry (Lucy Harker), Matt Boehler (Van Helsing), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
It takes a bold composer to set such a story and John Corigliano is more than up to the task…Corigliano gives a nod to operatic tradition with lush moments in 'Hush, darling: hush', expertly... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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Corigliano, J: The Ghosts of Versailles
RecommendedVictoria Livengood (Woman with Hat), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Louis XVI), Scott Scully (Marquis), Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), Patricia Racette (Marie Antoinette), Lucas Meachem (Figaro), Lucy Schaufer (Susanna), Joshua Guerrero (Count Almaviva), Guanqun Yu (Rosina), Renée Rapier (Cherubino),...
Christopher Maltman [is] solidly incisive as Beaumarchais, Robert Brubaker [is] vigorous as the villain Bégearss, and Broadway’s Patti LuPone [is] in for a colourful bit as the Turkish singer... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Opera Recording
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Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
RecommendedEdwards Parks (Steve Jobs), Garrett Sorenson (Steve Wozniak), Sasha Cooke (Laurene), Jessica E. Jones (Chrisann), Wei Wu (Kōbun Chino Otogawa); Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Michael Christie
Bates’s vocal writing can be taxing, though its challenges are all wonderfully met in the recording…Edward Parks gives a terrific central performance as Jobs, capturing both this charisma and... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Opera Recording
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Tafreshipour: The Doll Behind the Curtain Jonathan von Schwanenflügel (tenor), Per Bach Nissen (bass), Signe Sneh Durholm (soprano), Elenor Wiman (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Storm (baritone), Maria Dreisig (soprano), Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass-baritone)
Athelas Sinfonietta, Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard
As the psychosexual crisis deepens, Jonathan von Schwanenf lügel proves vocally supple as the conflicted student, supported by a committed cast and 11-piece Athelas Sinfonietta under Eirik Haukaas... — More…
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Saariaho: La Passion de Simone Dominique Blanc (narrator), Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Tapiola Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Upshaw's always seems the perfect voice and sensibility for Saariaho's music; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's colleague from their student days, is an intensely engaged and sympathetic director... — More…
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Higdon: Cold Mountain
Jay Hunter Morris (Teague), Robert Pomakov (Owens), Adrian Kramer (Owens’ Son), Nathan Gunn (W.P. Inman), Kevin Burdette (A Blind Man) & Isabel Leonard (Ada Monroe)
The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra & Members of The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
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Jeanine Tesori: Blue
Kenneth Kellogg (The Father), Brianna Hunter (The Mother), Aaron Crouch (The Son), Gordon Hawkins (The Reverend), The Washington National Opera, Roderick Cox
[Tesori’s score] moves from lush warmth to splintered dissonance in a heartbeat, straddling art and vernacular styles with subtlety and verve…The cast’s performances are both moving and cogent... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Fagerlund: Döbeln Anu Komsi (soprano), Annika Mylläri (soprano), Lasse Penttinen (tenor), Sören Lillkung (baritone) & Robert McLoud (bass)
West Coast Kokkola Opera & Kokkola Opera Festival Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
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Lang, Bernhard: I Hate Mozart
Florian Boesch (Adriano Morado), Dagmar Schellenberger (Grace Moor), Andrea Lauren Brown (Simona Chodovska), Salome Kammer (Franziska Zimmer), Mathias Zachariassen (Johannes Weiner), David Pittman-Jennings (Ludwig Zellinsky), Rupert Bergmann (Intendant), Dieter Kovacic, Wolfgang Fuchs (turntable...
Lang's music - jam-packed with collages, Mozartian parody, purposeful melodic invention and rude stylistic incongruities - always puts music first, and dramatic impetus takes care of itself.... — More…
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Nørgård: Der göttliche Tivoli (The Divine Circus) Bernd Gebhardt (bass-baritone), Fabienne Jost (soprano), Steffen Kubach (baritone), Jianeng Lu (tenor), Tadahiro Masujima (tenor), Sandra Rohrbach (mezzo-soprano), Simone Tschöke (contralto), Andrea Stadel (soprano), Daniel Szeili (tenor) & Hubert Wild (baritone)
Dorian Keilhack
...a powerfully effective piece, with a text compiled by the composer from a range of sources, and the largely declamatory vocal writing underpinned mostly by a formidable battery of percussion.... — More…
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