5 great opera-concerts at TCE: (2) Parsifal

Parsifal in concert, Théâtre des Champs Elysées,April 14 2011

Michael Volle, Kent Nagano and Kwangchul Youn

Kent Nagano ..... Conductor

Nikolai Schukoff ..... Parsifal
Angela Denoke ..... Kundry
Kwangchul Youn ..... Gurnemanz
John Wegner ..... Klingsor
Michael Volle ..... Amfortas
Steven Humes ..... Titurel

Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatsoper Munich
Tölzer Knabenchor

Fidelio in Munich

Fidelio, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, December 21 2010

Tatulescu, Selig, Myllys, Koch, Kampe, Kaufmann

Director ..... Calixto Bieito

Conductor ..... Daniele Gatti

Set ..... Rebecca Ringst

Chorus ..... Sören Eckhoff

Don Fernando ..... Steven Humes

Don Pizarro ..... Wolfgang Koch

Florestan ..... Jonas Kaufmann

Leonore ..... Anja Kampe

Rocco ..... Franz-Josef Selig

Marzelline ..... Laura Tatulescu

Jaquino ..... Jussi Myllys

1. Gefangener ..... Dean Power

2. Gefangener ..... Tareq Nazmi

The Bavarian State Orchestra

The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera

His chief characteristic is his fear of thinking for himself

Czeslaw Milosz (about the intellectual's relationship to totalitarianism) 

Real Mahagonny

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Teatro Real in Madrid [Mezzo-TV broadcast], October 2010

La Fura dels Baus ..... Director

Pablo Heras-Casado ..... Conductor

Measha Brueggergosman ..... Jenny Smith

Michael König ..... Jim MacIntyre

Willard White ..... Trinity Moses

Jane Henschel ..... Leocadia Begbick

Donald Kaasch ..... Fatty "the Bookkeeper"

John Easterlin ..... Jack O'Brien

Otto Katzameier ..... Bill

Steven Humes ..... Alaska-Wolf Joe

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real in Madrid