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Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage: Mozart, Rossini, R. Strauss (2010)

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Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage: Mozart, Rossini, R. Strauss (2010)

Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage: Mozart, Rossini, R. Strauss (2010)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 221 Mb | Total time: 74:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9109 | Recorded: 1963-1966

The pearl of great price: the German tenor who could make you wish to retract all you ever thought, wrote or spoke about the species, the Mozart tenor who could sound both elegant and manly, the singer who could almost persuade you that Strauss loved the tenor voice as he did the soprano. We hear Wunderlich in this collection additionally as Rossini’s Almaviva, scrupulous with his triplets and almost as careful with his scales. His “Il mio tesoro” drops not a semiquaver and takes the long phrases with confident ease.

Evelino Pidò, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča - Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena (2011)

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Evelino Pidò, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča - Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena (2011)

Evelino Pidò, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča - Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 194 min | 6,36+6,86 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish | Recorded: 2010

With her sensational role debut at the Vienna State Opera, superstar diva Anna Netrebko displays a performance of rare vocal and dramatic power. The Russian soprano sings the role of the unjustly accused second wife of British King Henry VIII, ‘veering between indignant fury and tender righteousness’ and demonstrating a new level of confidence in her technique with excellent ‘passagework, particularly in trills, and seamless runs even to the lowest notes’.

Vjekoslav Šutej, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Neil Shicoff - Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy: La Juive (2004)

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Vjekoslav Šutej, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Neil Shicoff - Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy: La Juive (2004)

Vjekoslav Šutej, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Neil Shicoff - Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy: La Juive (2004)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 5 ch) | 176 min | 6,90 Gb+6,83 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Francais, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol | Recorded: 2003

The undeniable merit of this recording is that it preserves what a vividly marvelous piece of musical melodrama this opera is, abounding with lyrical moments and cracklingly powerful scenes, and marked throughout by engaged and engaging acting by the principals. It also allows one to contemplate how rich in influences this opera was upon the young Verdi and Wagner, in equal measure. There are pre-echoes here of the choral writing in Flying Dutchman, Wotan’s Spear, even the “Magic Fire Music,” as well as Verdi’s dispensation of groundswell choral scenes and dramatic use of parlando.

Philippe Jordan, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Massenet: Werther (2010/2005)

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Philippe Jordan, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Massenet: Werther (2010/2005)

Philippe Jordan, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Massenet: Werther (2010/2005)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 5 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 7.87 Gb (DVD9) | 132 min
Classical | Arthaus Music | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

Arthaus presents the Vienna State Opera’s outstandingly cast new production of Werther on DVD. The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the Argentinian tenor Marcelo Álvarez, took the title role. Although he had already secured an international reputation through his performances in leading opera houses all over the world, this was his first appearance in the premiere of a production in Vienna. His Charlotte, on this occasion the young Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, joined the Vienna State Opera in 2003.

Bertrand de Billy, Choir and Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper - Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos (2010)

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Bertrand de Billy, Choir and Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper - Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos (2010)

Bertrand de Billy, Choir and Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper - Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos (2010)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 247 min | 7,34 + 7,72 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano | Recorded: 2004

Arthaus presents the world première of the unabridged version of Don Carlos at the Vienna State Opera, in a staging by the worldrenowned German director Peter Konwitschny. This staging in its unabridged version remains true to Giuseppe Verdi’s originally vision of his grand opera, when it was premiered in Paris in 1867. However, during the rehearsals it soon became clear that Don Carlos would not fi t within the convention of duration, and Verdi was forced, against his will, to make cuts. Over the next 20 years, he would repeatedly turn out new versions of the opera, none of which ultimately left him satisfied.

Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)

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Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)

Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | 7.55 Gb (DVD9) | 173 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

For his production of “ Don Giovanni“ at the Vienna International Festival (Wiener Festwochen), Roberto de Simone does not want to follow in the footsteps of other directors who modernise the design and add something that did not exist in Mozart’s original. He sends Don Giovanni on a journey through time to revisit the centuries that the character lived through starting with the original costume of the 16th century and ending in the 19th century. Don Giovanni changes garments but is still the same legend and archetype. Something similar can be said for his accompanying antagonist, Donna Elvira.

Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)

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Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)

Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.53 Gb (DVD9) | 151 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano, Chinese

Il Trovatore was always one of Herbert von Karajan‘s favourite operas. He conducted it at the very beginning of his career and his first studio recording in 1956 was made in Milan with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano, but „his“ Trovatore really made its mark in the legendary performances given at the Salzburg Festival in 1962, which formed the basis for this successful revival in Vienna. He once declared in an interview that what he loved about this opera was its archetypal human passions, its compression of highly dramatic situations into the smallest conceivable space and Verdi‘s genius for translating such situations into music.

Gerd Albrecht, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Saverio Mercadante: Il Giuramento (2006)

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Gerd Albrecht, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Saverio Mercadante: Il Giuramento (2006)

Gerd Albrecht, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mercadante: Il Giuramento (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 435 Mb | Total time: 51:45+46:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Orfeo | # C 6800621 | Recorded: 1979

It is a concert performance, given and broadcast in Vienna in 1979, with one result being reasonably good sound. Another result is that the performers seem to warm up as they go, really hitting their strides about halfway through. In the case of Plácido Domingo, that could have been because he learned the role over a weekend, filling in for an ailing member of the planned cast. He is nevertheless one of the drawing cards of this recording, as is the presence of the young Italian soprano Mara Zampieri as the romantic lead Elaisa; her sheer dynamic range, with a slashing, edgy fortissimo, is impressive, as was the late-'70s engineering that captured it for posterity.

Adam Fischer, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Smetana: Die verkaufte braut [Prodana nevesta] (2007/1982)

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Adam Fischer, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Smetana: Die verkaufte braut [Prodana nevesta] (2007/1982)

Adam Fischer, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Lucia Popp, Siegfried Jerusalem - Smetana: Die verkaufte braut [Prodaná nevěsta] (2007/1982)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.55 Gb (DVD9) | 155 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

This Bartered Bride ’s acting and singing is generally of a high level. Lucia Popp was caught at a perfect time for this role. She’d gradually been developing her voice into a larger, more dramatic instrument, and here displays a lyric’s warmth with the power of a spinto. She clearly enjoys the challenge of the only serious aria in the entire work (in act III; performed in German as “Wie fremd und tot”), providing many fine interpretative points and a great deal of tonal variety. The audience goes wild, as well they might.

Nello Santi, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Giordano: Andrea Chenier [2005/1981]

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Nello Santi, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Giordano: Andrea Chenier [2005/1981]

Nello Santi, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Giordano: Andrea Chénier [2005/1981]
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 5 ch) | 7.64 Gb (DVD9) | 139 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Out of all Italian verismo operas, Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier is one of the few of lasting popularity that is still performed regularly on major opera stages worldwide. This 1981 production features a stellar Plácido Domingo in the title role and a classic staging by Otto Schenk, making for one of the finest readings of the opera. Andrea Chénier was an overwhelming success when premiered at La Scala in 1896 and first performed in Vienna in 1926, returning to the stage whenever a truly great tenor was available to tackle the demanding title role. Gabriela Benacková and Piero Cappuccilli lead a strong supporting cast in this tragic love story set during the times of French Revolution.

Alfred Eschwe, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon - Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (2015) [Blu-Ray]

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Alfred Eschwe, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon - Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (2015) [Blu-Ray]

Alfred Eschwé, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón - Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (2015/2005) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 16995 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 131 min | 22,5 Gb
Audio1: Italiano / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip1 | MKV 1920x1080 / 4972 kbps / 29,97 fps | 131 min | 8,04 Gb
BluRay-rip2 | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 131 min | 5,99 Gb
Audio: Italiano / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits | DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Erato | Sub: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Rolando Villazón as Nemorino exhibits a real gift for comic acting, manipulating his rubber face into dozens of hilarious poses, flawlessly turning stock comic gestures into laugh-out-loud moments, and even juggling apples with the panache of a circus performer. More important, he uses his lyric tenor to sing the part with impressive subtlety, suggesting Nemorino's desperation while singing of his love for Adina. His big show-stopper, "Una furtiva lagrima," features melting pianissimos and a breathtaking decrescendo in its final phrase. Netrebko's Adina is every bit as good, with deft acting and a lovely lyric soprano voice that makes you understand why she's the only girl for Nemorino.

Christoph Eschenbach, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2014) [Blu-Ray]

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Christoph Eschenbach, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2014) [Blu-Ray]

Christoph Eschenbach, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Capriccio (2014) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26955 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 163 min | 41,3 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3867 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 163 min | 7,44 Gb
Audio: Deutsch / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits | DTS / 5ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | C Major | Sub: German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

“Kurt Rydl crowns a fine stage career with a gloriously eccentric impersonation of La Roche…The singing honours belong entirely to Angelika Kirchschlager as Clairon.” (BBC Music Magazine). “this Countess's preference for 'Ton' over 'Wort' is clear from the start…The greatest pleasure of the performance, for me, undoubtedly comes in the wonderful playing of the Staatsoper orchestra, the sweet, tender strings and the mellifluous horns in particular; and Christoph Eschenbach conducts a leisurely and loving account of Strauss's gorgeous score.” (Gramophone Magazine)

Christian Thielemann, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2021)

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Christian Thielemann, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2021)

Christian Thielemann, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 497 Mb | Total time: 128:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Prfeo | # C996202 | Recorded: 2014

This live recording of Ariadne auf Naxos in October 2014 took place not only at the site of the opera premiere of the version of the opera that we are best familiar with these days, but it also testifies Christian Thielemann’s first conducting engagement of a scenic performance of a Strauss opera at the opera house on the Ring. The cast includes Soile Isokoski as Ariadne, Johan Botha - in one of his latest performances before his untimely death - as Bachus, Daniela Fally as Zerbinetta, Sophie Koch as the composer, Jochen Schmeckenbecher as the music teacher and Peter Matic as the dancing master. Many attendees of the premiere of Strauss’ first version of Ariadne - which was intended to succeed Moliere’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and for this reason was six hours long - felt that they had just been part of a first-rate funeral.

Erich Binder, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Francisco Araiza, Ruggero Raimondi - Gounod: Faust (2006/1985)

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Erich Binder, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Francisco Araiza, Ruggero Raimondi - Gounod: Faust (2006/1985)

Erich Binder, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Francisco Araiza, Ruggero Raimondi - Gounod: Faust (2006/1985)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 5 ch | Dolby AC3, 5 ch | 7.06 Gb+4.17 Gb (DVD9+DVD5) | 176 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Francais, English, Deutsch, Espanol, Chinese

The production and video direction are by British film-maker Ken Russell who puts his own stamp on the production. Russell told an interviewer he felt the plot was "silly" so he turned Marguerite into a young nun, eliminated the Walpurgis Night ballet, had Marguerite use sign-language for Valentin's deaf-mute children, and had Mephistopheles disrespectfully urinating in the stoup in church. However, the overall effect is visually engrossing, the vivid sets and costumes by Karl Toms are effective. And the singing is outstanding.

Zubin Mehta, Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2011/2008)

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Zubin Mehta, Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2011/2008)

Zubin Mehta, Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2011/2008)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 5.35+5.60 Gb (2xDVD9) | 161 min
Classical | C Major | Sub.: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Korean, Chinese

The cast is a dream team', wrote the Financial Times after the premiere of this production of Verdis La forza del destino at the Wiener Staatsoper. Powerful performances by Nina Stemme, who gives a fullblooded portrayal of Leonora, Alastair Miles as her father, Salvatore Licitra as Alvaro, Carlos Álvarez as Don Carlo and Nadia Krasteva as Preziosilla resulted in one of the Viennese ensembles most celebrated achievements of recent years. Zubin Mehta leads the Staatsoper Orchestra with agility, subtleness and relaxed mastery, and right from the start David Pountney establishes an atmosphere of entrapment by fate. 'A perfect utopia' (Süddeutsche Zeitung).