Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Okka von der Damerau (mezzo-soprano)
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Wagner: Lohengrin Goran Juric (Heinrich), Michael Konig (Lohengrin), Simone Schneider (Elsa), Martin Gantner (Friedrich), Okka Von Der Damerau (Ortrud), Shigeo Ishino (Der Heerufer), Staatsopernchor Stuttgart, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Cornelius Meister
However spartan the visuals, in many ways its sheer starkness enables it to hint at the central mysteries of the piece. Where the production triumphs is on the musical side, with each of the... — More…
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Derek Welton (Wotan - Das Rheingold), Iain Paterson (Wotan - Die Walküre/Wanderer), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles
In finding the whole so much less than the sum of its parts, I return to the excellence of the singers, who deliver quite conventional accounts of their roles despite the non-canonical paraphernalia... — More…
