The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed more authentically in Dresden than anywhere else in the world: Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, which received its first performance in Dresden in 1911. Leading the ensemble was the radiant-voiced and profoundly thoughtful Marschallin of Anne Schwanewilms.
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Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
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