Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (Complete opera)
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (Complete opera)
Diana Damrau, Anna Prohaska, Rolando Villazón, Paul Schweinester / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
[ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Sunday 10 July 2016
The third of DG's series of seven Mozart operas conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and initiated by Rolando Villazón, in collaboration with Festspielhaus Baden Baden, U-Live, and sponsored by ROLEX.
The release follows up a "completely enthralling" (Opernglas) Così fan tutte and "the most exciting and consistently well-sung Don Giovanni for some years" (Opera) with another Baden-Baden Festival Mozart production,Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this similarly acclaimed 2014 Entführung aus dem Serail: "Well-deserved cheers for all participants" (Online Musik Magazin).
It was recorded live in the stunning venue of Festspielhaus Baden Baden and features a star cast full of critically-acclaimed artists - including Diana Damrau, the reigning Konstanze of our time - with an extraordinary strong showing of Deutsche Grammophon artists.
"this is the most satisfactory instalment so far of DG's projected recordings of [Villazon] surmounts the difficulties, if not effortlessly, then with more than credit. Damrau makes light of Konstanze's bravura challenges, but her sound can turn steely and fierce...Anna Prohaska and Paul Schweinester are an attractive comic pair, Franz-Josef Selig is the best Osmin on disc since Kurt Moll...The set's success is guaranteed by Nézet-Séguin's airy conducting of a full edition." (Sunday Times)
"[Damrau] delivers the best Martern aller Arten I've heard for yonks: a delicious compendium of tangled emotions, gloriously matched by virtuosic instrumental playing...Singing with great sensuality and perhaps even flutier top notes, Anna Prohaska makes a spirited Blonde...[Villazon] sings Belmonte with bluff vigour and a fine, metallic ring to the voice." (The Times)
"There's a bouncy enthusiasm to Nézet-Séguin's approach, with its wide, dynamic contrasts, but not a great deal of subtlety, though the COE is its usual cultivated and alert self...The sense of style that's missing in Villazón's singing is emphasised by the other tenor, Paul Schweinester as Pedrillo, and especially by Diana Damrau as Konstanze." (The Guardian)
"Once again, Nézet-Séguin shows how good he is in Mozart. His speeds are well judged, never too fast for the singers to articulate clearly. And he has the knack of bringing out detail without sounding fussy...In his first German role, Villazón sounds assured, both in speech and song...Blonde presents many challenges, and Prohaska meets them all." (Gramophone)
"there is some passionate singing here, as well as sparkling instrumental detail...The cast is of a very high standard, though Villazón, despite being superbly lyrical, can lack a certain pliant tenderness...Damrau is at her very best in the defiant aria 'Marten aller Arten'...Also, we get some very effective singing from Anna Prohaska as Blonde who reaches her high E in 'Durch Zärtlichkeit' with aplomb." (BBC Music)
