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Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss

Reviews (27)

The guardian

d. 11. Dec. 2009

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Tim Ashley

d. 11. Dec. 2009

"On the plus side we have Christian Thielemann's immaculately bittersweet conducting and Renée ­Fleming's Marschallin, sung and acted with superb conviction. Less successful are Diana Damrau's overly knowing ­Sophie and Sophie Koch's occasionally unsteady ­Octavian. Wernicke's staging, updating the opera to the years before the first world war, has a brittle, cool quality".

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Politiken

d. 29. Dec. 2009

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Thomas Michelsen

d. 29. Dec. 2009

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Politiken

d. 27. Mar. 2007

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Thomas Michelsen

d. 27. Mar. 2007

"At smide et bordel ind som tredjeakt, når den soldaterforråede Ochs skal tages med bukserne nede, er under lavmålet ... en ufølsom instruktion ... Det holder denne nostalgiske opera ikke til. Men synger godt, det gør de, og da især de tre centrale kvindelige solister ... Wienerne leverer usædvanligt håndfast spil på denne 2004-optagelse".

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Jyllands-posten

d. 1. Dec. 2009

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John Christiansen

d. 1. Dec. 2009

"Man kan glæde sig over operaindspilninger dirigeret af Christian Thielemann ... Ingen får som Thielemann skønheden, udtrykket og livet i orkesterspillet frem ... Renée Fleming ... synger en charmerende marskalinde, Sophie Koch er en velklingende Octavian og Diana Damrau en kæk Sophie ... Fotograferingen er ret ringe med ødelæggende nærbilleder i stedet for helhedsindtryk af scenen".

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Jyllands-posten

d. 28. Dec. 2004

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Jyllands-posten

d. 28. Dec. 2004

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Weekendavisen

d. 17. Nov. 2006

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Peter Johannes Erichsen

d. 17. Nov. 2006

"Partiet som Sextus Pompejus i »Julius Cæsar i Egypten« har hun [Angela Kirchschlager] sunget ved Glyndebourne-festspillene. Sådan kan hun opleves på DVD, ligesom hendes Oktavian i Richard Strauss' »Rosenkavaleren« fra Salzburg-festspillene er blevet foreviget. I begge operaer bliver man vidne til hendes totale forsvinden i en rolles psyke, den rasende hævner Sextus og den sværmeriske drivert Oktavian".

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Jyllands-posten

d. 11. Jan. 2008

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John Christiansen

d. 11. Jan. 2008

"Robert Carsens opsætning af Richard Strauss' Rosenkavaleren medførte i 2004 en del debat ... Det var nu sjovt lavet ... Den store scene blev også godt udnyttet med sideværelser i førsteakten ... Franz Hawlata er ikke den store oplevelse som Ochs, Angela Kirchslager er en velsyngende Octavian, men mere stiv i spillet, Miah Persson er en dejlig Sophie og Adrienne Pieczonka en fornem marskalinde ... Opførelsen er ikke et førstevalg ... men der er så meget interessant i den, at Rosenkavaler-fans må have den med".

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BBC music magazine

2005 October

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Michael Tanner (musikanmelder)

2005 October

"Kleiber's conducting is spacious, transparent and warm. Brigitte Fassbaender is ideal as Octavian".

Diapason

2015 novembre

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Emmanuel Dupuy

2015 novembre

Klassisk

2015, nr. 39

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Henrik Engelbrecht

2015, nr. 39

"Instruktøren Richard Jones skræller de sædvanlig lag rokokopudder af historien, og smider den ind i en både æstetisk og velfungerende Art-Deco-ramme ... Sangerholdet er stærkt ... Sopranen Kate Royal ... er tilbage i flot form som en af de mest helstøbte Feltmarskalinder, jeg har hørt og set ... Robin Ticciati dirigerer London Filharmonikerne med suverænt overblik".

Klassisk

2006, nr. 1

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Thomas Michelsen

2006, nr. 1

BBC music magazine

2009 February

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David Nice

2009 February

"Uwe Erik Laufenberg's production may be fuzzy, but thus Dresden Rosenkavalier ... has to be seen for Anne Schwanewilms's Marschallin, one of the most consummate operatic performances, I've ever seen ... this is an umissable production".

Klassisk

2009, nr. 13

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Mikael Garnæs

2009, nr. 13

"Frem for alt er den musikalske standard tårnhøj. Under ledelse af dirigenten Fabio Luisi spiller orkestret, Sächsische Staatskapelle, med en klangkultur, man ikke er vant til at høre af tidens andre førende orkestre ... Dresdener-orkestret dyrker akkompagnementets kunst ... Blandt sangerne må man fremhæve Anne Schwanewilms som feltmarskalinden. Strålende ved stemme fanger hun alle nuancerne i denne bittersøde komedie ... Det visuelle er til gengæld ikke exceptionelt".

BBC music magazine

2018 March

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Christopher Cook (musikanmelder)

2018 March

"This is also Renée Fleming's last performance as the Marschallin; there's no denying the care with which she sings the role, even if she never quite manages to act from within".

Klassisk

2010, nr. 16

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Mikael Garnæs

2010, nr. 16

"Alle sejl er sat til i denne ambitiøse og stjernespækkede Rosenkavaler. Dirigenten Christian Thielemann satser kompromisløst på sin helt egen version af partituret. Herbert Wernicke står for en særdeles gennemarbejdet iscenesættelse, og sangerne er på superliga-plan. Alligevel sidder man tilbage med en lidt uforløst fornemmelse. Det er nok mest Thielemanns opfattelse af musikken, jeg ikke rigtig kan forlige mig med".

BBC music magazine

2015 April

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Christopher Cook (musikanmelder)

2015 April

"Vurdering: BBC music opera choice" - "Hooray for director Harry Kupfer! ... [He] knows that Rosenkavalier is a supreme exercise in nostalgia ... This is also Freud's Vienna. Stoyanova's Marschallin is a scrupulous analyst of her own and Octavian's emotions ... Best of all is Günther Groissböck's Ochs ... a younger man ruled by the insatiable itch of desire. As for Sophie Koch, her unique blend of vocal ice and fire reminds you why Strauss and Hofmannsthal changed the title from Ochs von Lerchenau".

BBC music magazine

2006 December

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David Nice

2006 December

"Robert Carsen's brave new world courted controversy, but it simply doesn't fit. Gone are the rococco period and much of the detail of Hoffmannsthal's elaborate libretto, so painstakingly illustrated in Strauss's score ... The army boys meet their maker in what has to be one of the worst final curtains ever. The casting is up to Salzburg high standards ... unfortunately the Vienna Philharmonic playing under Bychkov is coarse to match the show".

The gramophone

2006 October

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Philip Clark

2006 October

" Kleibers classic performance sets an all-time stand ... Although it is 26 years old, it has lost nothing of its power to delight eye and ear, and is in almost every way superior to Carlos Kleibers 1994 remake in Vienna. Schenks direction is finely judged, strong in detail, in Jürgen Roses handsome, traditional sets. Eschewing fashionable modernities, its has stood the test of time ... The picture comes up fresh on DVD and the sound is mostly first-rate, as is the video direction. This is a must-buy".

Fono Forum

2015 September

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Manuel Brug

2015 September

"Der gerne sarkastische Regisseur Richard Jones kitzelt in seiner knallig-flachen Inszenierung das Gemachte, das kalkulierte Spiel mit Sentiment und Sentimentalität heraus. Hier ist Liebe nur ein Gefühl von gestern oder ein so neues, dass man gar nicht weiss, ob es überhaupt anhält ... Ein sachlicher Rosenkavalier für das 21. Jahrhundert - so dirigiert ihn auch Glyndebournes Musikdirektor Robin Ticciati am Pult des glänzenden London Philharmonic Orchestra".

The gramophone

2015 September

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Hugo Shirley

2015 September

"As one would expect from Jones, there's much that is striking in the staging ... The LPO play with considerable virtuosity for Robin Ticciati, whose reading is clean and unsentimental. Straussians will no doubt want to see this production, and it certainly engages the brain. Go elsewhere ... if you want a Rosenkavalier dvd to engage the heart".

Operabladet Ascolta

(2005) 23. årgang nr. 8

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(2005) 23. årgang nr. 8

International record review

2008 March

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Michael Tanner (musikanmelder)

2008 March

"There are many DVD's of this opera available now and I found this one of the less enchanting that I have seen ... it is updated to Vienna after the Second World War".

Fono Forum

2018 März

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Manuel Brug

2018 März

"La Fleming gefällt als damenhafte Mischung aus Musikalität, Energie, Disziplin, Wandlungsfähigkeit, Stamina ... Bühnenbilder zwischen Hofburg-Neorokoko und Wiener Werkstätte mit vielen Uniformen, Walzerpaaren und Kanonen ... das billige Bordell-Ambiente im dritten Akt wirkt so einfach nur vulgär".

BBC music magazine

2010 August

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David Nice

2010 August

"Renée Fleming's Marschallin is angry, very angry - one way of getting through a production where no one else seems confident of what they ought to be doing ... It's an inadequate showcase for Fleming's incarnation of a signature role".

Vurdering (performance): 2/5.

Vurdering (picture & sound): 3/5.

Fono Forum

2015 Januar

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Manuel Brug

2015 Januar

"Welser-Möst ist kein Interpret des Loslassens, der Ekstase; aber Schwungvoll ... lässt er die Wiener Philharmoniker spielen ... Darunter zwei bedeutende Rollendebütanten. Krassimira Stoyanovas Marschallin ... gelingen traumschön als Schlichtheit des Herzens ... Günther Groissböck ... eine grandios stimmige Mischung aus charmierendem Don Juan ... Die Octavian-erfahrene Sophie Koch [liefert] die reifste Sängerinnenleistung".

The gramophone

2015 April

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Hugo Shirley

2015 April

"None of these singers feels terribly engaged, for which some blame must lie with the director ... Harry Kupfer has created a production, vaguely updated to the around the time of composition, which seems to have left its teeth in the glass on the bedside table ... The Vienna Philharmonic play the score with wonderful style, nevertheless, and Franz Welser-Möst's conducting keeps things ticking along efficiently".