Wagner: Lohengrin / Nagano, Kaufmann, Harteros, Koch, Schuster [Blu-ray]

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Wagner: Lohengrin / Nagano, Kaufmann, Harteros, Koch, Schuster [Blu-ray]

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Wagner: Lohengrin / Nagano, Kaufmann, Harteros, Koch, Schuster [Blu-ray]
Conductor: Kent Nagano | Composer(s): Richard Wagner | Director(s): Richard Jones, Kent Nagano | Performer(s): Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Wolfgang Koch, Michaela Schuster, Christof Fischesser | Orchestra/Ensemble: Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera Chorus | Label: Decca | Blu-ray | Picture format: NTSC 16:9, Full HD | Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1 | File hosts: Uploaded.net, share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file | Run time: 208 minutes | 44.33 GB
Language(s): German | Subtitle(s): English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese

Richard Jones’s radical new production of Lohengrin was the talk of the 2009 Munich Festival. It was also a triumph for Jonas Kaufmann in the title role — “the finest heldentenor since Jon Vickers” (La Scena Musicale). Die Welt added that they “could not think of any cast more perfectly matched, so youthfully enthralling, in short: so wonderful ...”. With striking costumes and designs by Ultz —and directed by Maestro Kent Nagano — it represents a bold new Lohengrin for today’s world.

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REVIEW:
This is the Lohengrin voice of dreams: both romantic and heroic, with a gentle, well-nourished warmth, capable of a perfectly graduated diminuendo to pianissimo. --John Steane, Gramophone, 2010

Works on This Recording
1.
Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
Performer: Evgeny Nikitin (Baritone), Michaela Schuster (Mezzo Soprano), Anja Harteros (Soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor), Wolfgang Koch (Baritone), Christof Fischesser (Bass)
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1846-1847; Germany