http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/arts/music/21zaji.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
MOZART: Die Hochzeit des Figaro
Yes, the German title must be employed for this filmed Nozze en Deutsch from 1967.
Khovanshchina
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article1407803.ece
WAGNER: Parsifal
Recorded on 28 March 1970 in Rome, this recording of Parsifal makes available a live
performance conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, one of the foremost interpreters of Wagner’s works in his day.
HAYDN: Les Sept Dernières Paroles du Christ
Franz Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words is well known, both as a familiar part of modern Lenten devotions and also as something of a stylistic oddity, I suspect.
WAGNER: Parsifal
From the 2005 season of the “reborn” La Fenice comes this Dynamic DVD of Wagner’s Parsifal.
Opera North: Breathing new life into “Orfeo”
Friday night in Leeds, in the North of England, at the city’s marvellously restored Grand Theatre, with the pavements outside shining wet and a tidal wave of umbrellas surging past, was an
exciting place to be.
BRAHMS: Ein deutsches Requiem
In dedicating much of his creative life to the Thomaskirche, the German musician Günther
Ramin left his mark on the musical life of Leipzig, and his legacy includes a fine recording of
Johannes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45.