It’s a stunning vocal marathon, with riveting intensity. You owe it to yourself to experience the vocal grandeur and blazing drama of this passionate heroine. She’s the Mycenaean princess whose father, Agamemnon, was murdered by her mother, Klytemnestra, leaving Elektra hell-bent on revenge. As Richard Strauss’s staggeringly powerful orchestra moves inexorably toward the {…}
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Capriccio releases a CD featuring a live recording of “Il Tabarro” that took place in a concert in 2010. Starring the late Johan Botha in the role of Luigi and Elza van den Heever as Giorgetta, Wolfgang Koch as Michele and Bertrand de Billy conducting the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Critical acclaim “…van den Heever fully embodies the character of {…}
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Recorded Live at the Met on March 25, 2017. Mozart’s once-rare opera has become a favorite at the Met, thanks to James Levine’s loving conducting of the score and this stunning production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Elza van den Heever’s Elettra is a tour de force. Matthew Polenzani is in resplendent form in the title role of the King of Crete, with Alice Coote as a {…}
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New Year’s Eve 2012 brought the first-ever performance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, famed for its incendiary, if fictional, confrontation between Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots) and Queen Elizabeth I of England. The performance on this DVD took place on January 19th 2013 and was broadcast to cinemas around the {…}
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Mahler’s immense creation—featuring hundreds of musicians, three choruses, and soloists—is a symphony so epic in scope that it has been dubbed the “Symphony of A Thousand.” Mahler’s Eighth—a tale of damnation and salvation—is quintessentially a romantic work, but it owes a great debt to the towering Baroque choral works of J.S. {…}
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