Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” Matthew Richard Martinez I went in with skepticism. After all, there are several recordings of Mahler’s Second that are exemplary. Mehta’s with the Vienna Philharmonic is near the top of my list, both of Bernstein’s with the NY Phil as well. More recently, Iván Fischer’s effort with the Budapest Festival Orchestra is
Neue Butterfly: keine Konkurrenz für Spitzenaufnahmen Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Melody Moore (Butterfly), Stefano Secco (Pinkerton), Elisabeth Kulman (Suzuki), Lester Lynch (Sharpless), Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian, Lawrence Foster; 2 CDs PTC5186783; Aufnahme 07/2019, Veröffentlichung 26.11.2021 (143′) Es ist vor allem Lawrence Foster, der diese Butterfly-Aufnahme prägt. Er dirigiert eine im Grunde sehr moderne, etwas scharf-trockene
Puccini Madama Butterfly (Foster) Following hot on the heels of its recent Fanciulla del West, welcomed in these pages by Mark Pullinger (4/21), Pentatone now gives us a new recording of Madama Butterfly featuring the same conductor, soprano and baritone. While the earlier set hailed from Transylvania, this new one comes from a more familiar
Harnoncourt 3 – Così fan tutte Well it took me a while to get hold of a copy of the third of the Harnoncourt Mozart/da Ponte operas. It is, of course, Così fan tutte and like the previous two operas is semi-staged at the Theater an der Wien. Also like the previous two there’s about an
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Melody Moore, Stefano Secco, Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian, Lawrence Foster) Soprano’s performance gives this recording its wings. Stefano Secco makes for a convincing Pinkerton, full of smarm and bluster that’s later eclipsed by a spinelessness that brings us to the opera’s tragic ending. He doesn’t quite match Moore for conviction or
Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Melody Moore (Butterfly), Stefano Secco (Pinkerton), Elisabeth Kulman (Suzuki), Lester Lynch (Sharpless), Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian, Lawrence Foster; 2 CDs PTC5186783; Aufnahme 07/2019, Veröffentlichung 26.11.2021 (143′) Neue Butterfly: keine Konkurrenz für Spitzenaufnahmen Es ist vor allem Lawrence Foster, der diese Butterfly-Aufnahme prägt. Er dirigiert eine im Grunde sehr moderne, etwas scharf-trockene
Francesco Meli, Melody Moore & Kevin Puts Lead New CD/DVD Releases This week audiences will get a chance to hear a debut album by one of the world’s great tenors, a recording of one of Puccini’s most beloved works, a world premiere recording of a great contemporary opera, and many more. Madama Butterfly Lawrence Foster
Elisabeth Kulman Cancels Farewell Vienna Recital Elisabeth Kulman has canceled her farewell Vienna concert due to the 2G rules in the city. The 48-year-old mezzo-soprano, who was set to perform her farewell concert at the Wiener Musikverein on Oct. 27 announced that the concert was canceled as she did not want to exclude any audience
International mezzo ends singing career at 48 The Austrian mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman is ‘putting a final line under my classical singing career’. It will end in December this year. Elisabeth has been a passionate campaginer for the rights of singers in concert and opera venues. She gave up singing opera in 2015 after serial discomfort
Harnoncourt’s Mozart cycle Back in 2014 Nikolaus Harnoncourt launched a project to present all three Mozart/da Ponte operas, concert style, on the stage of the Theater an der Wien in a single month. They are now being released on DVD/Blu-ray. The first is Le nozze di Figaro and it comes with a 52 minute documentary