A live performance streamed from the Wiener Staatsoper.
Lydia Steier‘s production in a live video stream from Vienna
A live broadcast of a most Viennese opera from Vienna itself
A live broadcast of Tchaikovsky‘s opera from Vienna starring Sonya Yoncheva
Federica Lombardi is Norma in a performance recorded in Vienna last month.
Following the peek at Asmik Grigorian‘s attempt, parterre box humbly offers an in-house snippet of Federica Lombardi‘s “Casta Diva” from a few blocks over on the Ringstrasse
A live broadcast from the Vienna Staatsoper conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres, now in a live video broadcast from Vienna.
A live performance starring Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres
A live Viennese New Year’s broadcast
Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from her role debut in next month’s performances of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Wiener Staatsoper
A live video broadcast of Pfitzner‘s opera from Vienna
Marina Rebeka and Joshua Guerrero lead this recent performance from Vienna.
A live video broadcast from Vienna.
György Kurtág‘s only opera live from the Wiener Staatsoper
Philippe Jordan conducts Joshua Guerrero, Roberto Tagliavini, Asmik Grigorian, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Étienne Dupuis, and Dmitry Ulyanov in a broadcast of a recent performance from Vienna
Philippe Jordan conducts Federica Lombardi, Emily D’Angelo, Peter Kellner, Filipe Manu, Kate Lindsey, and Christopher Maltman in a performance from last month in Vienna
And what a luxury it is to experience this musically outstanding Parsifal with a cast of this caliber!
Bertrand de Billy conducts a live Staatsoper performance with Roberto Frontali, John Osborn, Maria Nazarova, Jean Teitgen, and Lisette Oropesa in David Poutney‘s production
All animals are equal, but some are more equal that others in a live video relay of Alexander Raskatov‘s new opera from Vienna with Gennady Bezzubenkov, Wolfgang Bankl, Michael Gniffke, Andrei Popov, Stefan Astakhov, Karl Laquit, Artem Krutko, and Margaret Plummer and conducted by Alexander Soddy
Marco Armiliato conducts Asmik Grigorian, Jonas Kaufmann, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Jörg Schneider, and Dan Paul Dumitrescu in a broadcast from Vienna
With Christian Nickel, Lisette Oropesa, Emanuela von Frankenberg, Regula Mühlemann, Stella Roberts, Goran Juric, Andreas Grötzinger, Daniel Behle, Christian Natter, Michael Laurenz, Ludwig Blochberger.
Following classic recordings documenting the work of Karl Böhm and Herbert von Karajan. Orfeo’s 150 Years Wiener Staatsoper box moves on to new releases that are seeing their first incarnation on an officially available disc.
Orfeo’s 150 Years box chronologically documents some of the finest nights of live opera from the Wiener Staatsoper in the years following its restoration in 1955.
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