Opus Arte Wagner: The Bayreuth Edition [Blu-ray] [2015]

Works: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2009) Robert Dean Smith (Tristan); Iréne Theorin (Isolde); Robert Holl (König Marke); Jukka Rasilainen (Kurwenal); Ralf Lukas (Melot); Michelle Breedt (Brangäne); Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Peter Schneider Stage Director: Christoph Marthaler Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2008) Franz Hawlata (Hans Sachs); Artur Korn (Veit Pogner); Michael Volle (Sixtus Beckmesser); Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing); Norbert Ernst (David); Michaela Kaune (Eva); Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Sebastian Weigle Stage Director: Katharina Wagner Wagner: Die Walküre (2010) Linda Watson (Brünnhilde); Albert Dohmen (Wotan); Edith Haller (Sieglinde); Johan Botha (Siegmund); Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Christian Thielemann Stage Director: Tankred Dorst Wagner: Lohengrin (2011) Georg Zeppenfeld (König Heinrich); Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin); Annette Dasch (Elsa ); Jukka Rasilainen (Telramund); Petra Lang (Ortrud); Samuel Youn (Der Heerrufer des Königs); Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Andris Nelsons Stage Director: Hans Neuenfels Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (2013) Samuel Youn (Der Holländer); Benjamin Bruns (Der Steuermann); Christa Mayer (Mary); Tomislav Muzek (Erik); Ricarda Merbeth (Senta); Franz-Josef Selig (Daland); Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Christian Thielemann Stage Director: Jan Philipp Gloger Wagner: Tannhäuser (2014) Torsten Kerl (Tannhäuser); Kwangchul Youn (Landgraf Hermann); Markus Eiche (Wolfram von Eschenbach); Lothar Odinius (Walther von der Vogelweide); Thomas Jesatko (Biterolf); Stefan Heibach (Heinrich der Schreiber); Rainer Zaun (Reinmar von Zweter); Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth, Nichte des Landgrafen); Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Axel Kober Stage Director: Sebastian Baumgarten Press Reviews "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 - Die Walküre) "...as all stage productions should be, this is 200 per cent a Meistersinger to see." (Gramophone - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) "Despite the ferocious competition, absolutely unmissable." (Gramophone - Tristan und Isolde) " All six solo singers are musically excellent and dramatically persuasive, with Petra Lang's excoriating Ortrud and Georg Zeppenfeld's grave yet warm-toned King Henry particularly memorable..." (Gramophone - Lohengrin) "...one revels in Christian Thielemann's masterly handling of the Overture's tempo modifications and, thereafter, the lustrous sonorities that support the singers in this single-act version of the opera... Youn is a particular revelation, with bass qualities to establish the character's emotional weight but also effective baritonal colours that convey anguish with great specificity. " (Gramophone - Der fliegende Holländer) "The DVD deserves the same enthusiastic applause as the artists in Bayreuth who were celebrated cordially by the audience." (Opernnetz - Tannhäuser) Catalogue Number: OABD7184BD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Label: Opus Arte