DVD Video, René Pape (bass)
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), Rúni Brattaberg (Titurel), Maria Zifchak (Stimme)
Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera, Daniele Gatti, Francois Girard (dir.)
Kaufmann is the Parsifal we've all been waiting for...Matching his agonies are those of Peter Mattei's Amfortas and Katarina Dalayman's lustrous, secure Kundry, while the relaxed, minimal gestures... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th February 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Opéra
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Special offer. Wagner: Parsifal
Simon O’Neill (Parsifal), Angela Denoke (Kundry / Voice from Above), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Gerald Finley (Amfortas), Willard W. White (Klingsor) & Robert Lloyd (Titurel)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Stephen Langridge (director)
Amfortas [is] sung and acted with the greatest distinction by Gerald Finley...Denoke is always striking as Kundry but doesn't really have a large enough voice for the demanding role. The minor... — More…
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Special offer. Schumann: Szenen aus Goethe's Faust
Roman Trekel (Faust/Doctor Marianus), Elsa Dreisig (Gretchen/Una Poenitentium), René Pape (Mephistopheles/Evil Spirit/ Pater Profundus), Katharina Kammerloher (Marthe/Sorge/Mater Gloriosa)
Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Coriolan Overture & Jost: Fanfare & An die Hoffnung
Festive Concert on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Grafenegg Festival 2016
Camilla Nylund (soprano), Elena Zhidkova (mezzo-soprano), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Tonkunstler Orchestra & European Union Youth Orchestra, Wiener Singverein, Yutaka Sado
Under the Japanese Yutaka Sado, now their resident conductor, the orchestra plays extremely well…the last movement [of the Beethoven] takes off, to the evident pleasure of all concerned, and... — More…
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
René Pape (Figaro), Dorothea Röschmann (Susanna), Emily Magee (Countess Almaviva), Roman Trekel (Count Almaviva) & Peter Schreier (Basilio)
Staatskapelle Berlin & Staatsopernchor, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Thomas Langhoff (stage director)
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Special offer. Wagner: Parsifal
Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Anja Kampe (Kundry), Wolfgang Koch (Amfortas), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Tomas Tómasson (Klingsor), Matthias Hölle (Titurel)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsopernchor, Konzertchor der Staatsoper, Daniel Barenboim & Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)
Anja Kampe, most intense of Wagnerian singing actresses, goes all the pitiful way; I wept for her in Act III, and began to see a big love story between her and tortured adolescent Parsifal.... — More…
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Special offer. Solti Centenary Concert
Live recording from Symphony Center, Chicago, 2012
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), René Pape (bass), Tereza Gevorgyan (soprano), Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Gòmez-Ortiz (tenor) & Ross Ramgobin (baritone)
Members of the Georg Solti Accademia & World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev
In one sense, this is as much a record of an occasion as of a concert, though the music-making is top class throughout...the high point here is probably the quartet from Rigoletto...quite a... — More…
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Special offer. Haydn: The Creation
Edith Mathis (soprano), Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & René Pape (bass)
Festival Choir Lucerne & Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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Special offer. Gala Mariinsky II
Live recording from Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, May 2, 2013
With Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Plácido Domingo, Alexei Markov, Anna Netrebko, Yevgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Semishkur (Opera), Olga Esina, Kim Kimin, Anastasia Kolegova, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alexander Sergeyev, Vladimir Shklyarov,...
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2010
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus State Opera Vienna
there is no doubting the powerful authority that characterizes Barenboim's direction of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto from the keyboard. Perhaps rather unexpectedly, the magic really starts... — More…