Daniela Sindram

Live from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched palace, which has suggestions of Nazi Germany. Strauss’s ravishing and voluptuous score adds to the sexual alchemy that is conjured by an international cast led by Nadja Michael in the title role. Salome is filmed for the big screen with High Definition cameras and recorded in true surround sound.

Rienzi, one of Wagner’s masterpieces, has been a major success at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse in recent years. For this production, the lyric theatre called upon renowned producer Jorge Lavelli and tenor Torsten Kerl. The Orchestre National du Capitole is conducted by Pinchas Steinberg.

At the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Kirill Petrenko conducts this new production of Alban Berg's Lulu, directed for stage by Dmitri Tcherniakov and starring the soprano Marlis Petersen (Lulu).

Since its premiere in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck's fairytale opera »Hansel and Gretel« has awakened a passion for music theatre in generations of children. Even his great contemporaries – such as Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler or Johannes Brahms – were delighted by this work. It is the successful combination of seemingly folkloric simplicity and the complex musical language of Wagner’s direct successor, of simple melody and artful orchestration, and of socio-critical realism and atmospheric magic that makes the music to the Brothers Grimm’s famous story so captivating. And so the Vienna State Opera's production speaks to both children and adults alike, leading through wondrous projections of a magic lantern into the middle of the fairytale storyline.

L'intégrale des symphonies de Beethoven par l'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris dirigé par Philippe Jordan. En 2015, l'Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, sous la direction de Philippe Jordan, a enregistré au Palais Garnier et à l'Opéra Bastille le cycle des 9 symphonies de Beethoven. L'intégralité de ces concerts uniques a été captée pour Arthaus Music qui nous propose aujourd'hui un coffret de 3 Blu-ray dans lequel on va retrouver : les symphonies de Beethoven dans une qualité d'image et de réalisation unique, avec, pour les parties vocales, un casting de solistes étonnant (RICARDA MERBETH Soprano, DANIELA SINDRAM Mezzo-soprano, ROBERT DEAN SMITH Ténor, GÜNTHER GROISSBÖCK Basse) et le choeur de l'Opéra National sous la direction de José Luis Basso.