Great Wagner Singers

Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson, Astrid Varnay, Josef Greindl, Hans Hotter, Max Lorenz, Lauritz Melchior, Josef Greindl, Jess Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Frida Leider, Thomas Stewart, Gwyneth Jones, Wolfgang Windgassen, Leonie Rysanek, Gundula Janowitz, etc

Arias and Scenes from Die Fliegende Hollander, Rienzi, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Parsifal, Wesendonk Lieder

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CD Review: Norma - Bartoli, Jo, Osborn, Pertusi, Antonini

Norma - Cecilia Bartoli
Adalgisa - Sumi Jo
Pollione - John Osborn
Oroveso - Michele Pertusi
Clotilde - Liliana Nikiteanu
Flavio - Reinaldo Macias

International Chamber Vocalists
Orchestra La Scintilla

Conductor - Giovanni Antonini

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CD Review: Die Walkure - Pape, Stemme Kaufmann, Gergiev

Siegmund - Jonas Kaufmann

Hunding - Mikhail Petrenko

Wotan - Rene Pape

Sieglinde - Anja Kampe

Brunnhilde - Nina Stemme

Fricka - Ekaterina Gubanova

Gerhilde - Zhanna Dombrovskaya

Ortlinde - Irina Vasilieva

Waltraute - Natalia Evstafieva

Schwertleite - Lyudmila Kanunnikova

Helmwige - Tatian Kravtsova

Siegrune - Ekaterina Sergeeva

Grimgerde - Anna Kiknadze

Rossweisse - Elena Vitman

Mariinsky Orchestra

Conductor - Valery Gergiev

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Review: La Traviata - WA Opera, Colaneri

Violetta Valery - Katja Webb

Alfredo Germont - Rosario La Spina

Giorgio Germont - Douglas McNicol

Flora Bervoix - Fiona Campbell

Gaston - Matthew Lester

Barone Douphol - Andrew Foote

Marchese dÓbigny - David Dockery

Annina - Sarah-Janet Brittenden

Dottore Grenvil - Robert Hofmann

Giuseppe - Jun Zhang

Flora’s Servant & Commissioner - Mark Alderson

West Australian Opera Chorus

West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Conductor - Joseph Colaneri

Original Director - Elijah Moshinsky

Rehearsal Director - Cath Dodd

Designers - Michael Yeargan, Peter J Hall, Nigel Levings

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Review: Bluebeard's Castle - Perth International Arts Festival

Judith - Lisa Gasteen
Bluebeard - Daniel Sumegi


West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Western Australian Youth Orchestra
Conductor - Sir Richard Armstrong

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