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August Everding staged Mozart's Singspiel "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (The Abduction from the Seraglio) in Munich's National Theater as a sunny comic opera but, as the director says, one with the "depth" required by Mozart. The buffo characters, for instance, take on compellingly human traits. Karl Böhm, who conducted his first "Entführung" in 1924, plunges into the depths of the music and uncovers its magic and brilliance, its eros and spirituality. At the center of the performance is Edita Gruberova as Konstanze, whose coloraturas are dazzling and always precise. As Osmin, Martti Talvela is a supple, shifty swaggerer. Thomas Holtzmann speaks the Bassa Selim as a nervous, passionate potentate. Francisco Araiza sings Belmonte with glowing lyricism. Norbert Orth is a spirited Pedrillo and Reri Grist a Blondchen with a natural charm and musical sensitivity.

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1983, Bayerische Staatsoper

Mozart, The Magic Flute

  • Wolfgang Sawallisch

  • August Everding

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • Kurt Moll, Edita Gruberová, Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp

1976, Wiener Musikverein

Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488

  • Karl Böhm

  • Wiener Philharmoniker

  • Maurizio Pollini

1988, Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Mozart, Don Giovanni

  • Riccardo Muti

  • Giorgio Strehler

  • Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano

  • Thomas Allen, Sergej Kopčák, Edita Gruberová, Francisco Araiza

2006, Bayerische Staatsoper

Bellini, Norma

  • Friedrich Haider

  • Jürgen Rose

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • Edita Gruberová, Sonia Ganassi, Zoran Todorovich

1969, opera film

Mozart, Così fan tutte

  • Karl Böhm

  • Václav Kaslik

  • Wiener Philharmoniker

  • Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Luigi Alva, Hermann Prey

1978, Opera film

Strauss, Ariadne on Naxos

  • Karl Böhm

  • Filippo Sanjust

  • Wiener Philharmoniker

  • Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Trudeliese Schmidt, Walter Berry

1971

Mozart, Requiem, K. 626

  • Karl Böhm

  • Wiener Symphoniker

  • Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Peter Schreier, Walter Berry

  • Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

2008, Cuvilliés-Theater Munich

Mozart, Idomeneo

  • Kent Nagano

  • Dieter Dorn

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • John Mark Ainsley, Pavol Breslik, Juliane Banse, Annette Dasch

1996, München Herkulessaal

Carlos Kleiber conducts

  • Carlos Kleiber

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

1976, opera film

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro

  • Karl Böhm

  • Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

  • Wiener Philharmoniker

  • Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa

2009, Bavarian State Opera

Donizetti, Lucrezia Borgia

  • Bertrand De Billy

  • Christof Loy

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • Edita Gruberová, Pavol Breslik, Cosimo Vassallo, Alice Coote

2005, Bayerische Staatsoper

Donizetti, Roberto Devereux

  • Friedrich Haider

  • Christof Loy

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • Roberto Aronica, Edita Gruberová, Albert Schagidullin

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