Dessau - Lanzelot | Audite AUDITE23448

Dessau - Lanzelot

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE23448

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 13th January 2023

Contents

Artists

Emily Hindrichs
Mate Solyom-Nagy
Oleksandr Pushniak
Juri Batukov
Wolfgang Schwaninger
Uwe Stickert
Daniela Gerstenmeyer
Andreas Koch
Opernchor des Deutschen Nationaltheaters
Chor des Theaters Erfurt
Kinderchor schola cantorum weimar
Staatskapelle Weimar

Conductor

Dominik Beykirch

Works

Dessau, Paul

Lanzelot

Artists

Emily Hindrichs
Mate Solyom-Nagy
Oleksandr Pushniak
Juri Batukov
Wolfgang Schwaninger
Uwe Stickert
Daniela Gerstenmeyer
Andreas Koch
Opernchor des Deutschen Nationaltheaters
Chor des Theaters Erfurt
Kinderchor schola cantorum weimar
Staatskapelle Weimar

Conductor

Dominik Beykirch

About

Paul Dessau’s opera Lanzelot was one of the most significant and elaborate operas to be premiered in the GDR – a political fairy tale of the people who would rather live under the protection of a tyrant than dare try true freedom. More than half a century after its East Berlin premiere (1969), Dessau’s magnum opus is released on CD for the first time in an exemplary recording by the Nationaltheater Weimar.

Cast:
- Elsa: Emily Hindrichs
- Lanzelot: Máté Sólyom-Nagy
- Dragon: Oleksandr Pushniak
- Charlesmagne: Juri Batukov
- Mayor: Wolfgang Schwaninger
- Heinrich: Uwe Stickert
- Cat: Daniela Gerstenmeyer
- Medicine Man: Andreas Koch

Reviews

Involving more than 30 solo singing roles, a nine-part chorus and a huge orchestra, as well as dancers and actors, Lanzelot was one of the most ambitious operas ever mounted in the GDR. ... [This] wonderfully committed performance, conducted by Dominik Beykirch with Máté Sólyom-Nagy as Lanzelot, and Emily Hindrich as Elsa, the girl he comes to the city to save from Oleksandr Pushniak’s Dragon, reveals much more than a cold-war period piece. ... it’s gleefully eclectic and full of wonderfully imaginative touches, with 12-note passages, baroque pastiche, excursions into jazz and copious use of aleatoric techniques. It’s a curiosity certainly, but a fascinating one.  Andrew Clements
The Guardian 12 January 2023

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