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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (De Nederlands Opera)
"A blend of transparent stage direction, powerful images and colourful orchestral playing. Perfect. (Die Walküre)" (Trouw, NL)
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Gran Teatre del Liceu)
Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde); Matti Salminen (Hagen); Falk Struckmann (Gunther); John Treleaven (Siegfried); Eric Halfvarson (Fafner);
"the best small screen realisation of a Ring opera I have seen." (International Record Review)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth Festival)
Franz Hawlata (Hans Sachs); Artur Korn (Veit Pogner); Michael Volle (Sixtus Beckmesser); Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing); Norbert Ernst (David); Michaela Kaune (Eva);
"'Meistersinger' that's on an entirely new Wagnerian scale...it is full of smart ideas and moments of effective theater." (The Washington Post)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Glyndebourne)
Gerald Finley (Hans Sachs); Marco Jentzsch (Walther von Stolzing); Anna Gabler (Eva); Michaela Selinger (Magdalene); Topi Lehtipuu (David); Alastair Miles (Veit Pogner);
"McVicar has put on a great show with style, intelligence and insight." (The Daily Telegraph)
Wagner: Die Walküre
John Keyes (Siegmund); Kurt Rydl (Hunding); John Bröcheler (Wotan); Nadine Secunde (Sieglinde); Jeannine Altmeyer (Brünnhilde); Rheinhild Runkel (Fricka);
"Hartmut Haenchen builds on the New Wagner Edition and the Residentie Orchestra in outstanding form: a leaner, more elegant and never thundering Wagner sound makes this production a rich experience." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
Wagner: Die Walküre (Bayreuth Festival)
Linda Watson (Brünnhilde); Albert Dohmen (Wotan); Edith Haller (Sieglinde); Johan Botha (Siegmund);
"Thielemann and the Bayreuth Orchestra create a ravishing wall of sound and not a moment is less that aurally stunning: one listens, agape." (International Record Review)