Pan Classics

30/07/2024

REVIEW

Read the Limelight review.

18/07/2024

05/07/2024

****
"Jakob Lehmann's vision of a purified, historically informed but never dogmatically rigid Rossini buffa is striking. The ensemble performance impresses and inspires even the less experienced singers, whose impulsiveness and enthusiasm quickly make them forget any minor imperfections. Hannah Ludwig's powerful-voiced and witty Isabella is particularly convincing." rbbKultur

Eine Kritik von Matthias Käther

01/07/2024

"The recording released by PanClassics is, as the applause after the individual musical numbers proves, a recording of a concert and combines a prominent cast of singers with a highly professional orchestral accompaniment. The interplay of modern woodwinds and strings with gut strings is effective and the accompaniment of the recitatives not only with a keyboard instrument, but with cello, double bass and fortepiano makes sense.

Even in the Sinfonia, all contrasts are exhausted in terms of volume and speed, there are flashes of irony and the finales are skilfully built up in a constant escalation. The freshness of the playing and the harmonious interaction with the solo singers increasingly put the listener in a good mood." Operalounge

Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
David Ostrek/Hannah Ludwig/Milos Bulajic/Manuel Walser/Jakob Lehmann/Eroica Berlin/Neuer Männerchor Berlin
PC10455
UPC: 7619990104556

. Sind vier Opernhäuser für eine Stadt wie Berlin nicht genug? Offensichtlich nicht, denn neben der Deutschen Oper, der Staatsoper, der Komischen Oper und der Neuköllner Oper gibt es schließlich noch die Berliner Operngruppe, die einmal im Jahr eine italienische Oper aufführt und dazu hat sich,...

24/06/2024

FINALLY BACK ON CD

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: The Idiot
Juhan Tralla/Steven Scheschareg/Ludmila Slepnova/Thomas Sanderling/Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
PC10460
UPC: 7619990104600

Steven Scheschareg, BaritonThomas Sanderling, Dirigent Nationaltheater Mannheim

21/06/2024

'The Idiot' is experiencing a renaissance this year, and not only thanks to our reissue of the only available recording. The Salzburger Festspiele | Salzburg Festival is also putting the opera back in the spotlight with an excellent cast.
For more information: https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/p/der-idiot-2024

We finally have the recording of the world premiere back in our catalog!

Nationaltheater Mannheim, Thomas Sanderling
The Idiot
PC10460
7619990104600

20/06/2024

***** REVIEW

"While Rossini's work had already been the subject of a number of experiments on period instruments (the Ca****la Coloniensis and Gabriele Ferro in the 1970s-1980s, Marc Minkowski and Jean-Christophe Spinosi more recently), none had ever gone so far in terms of musicological research, and the result is singularly seductive. At the centre of this astonishing approach is conductor Jakob Lehmann, whose 'historically informed' approach has led him to a radically new interpretation of Rossini's music, full of freedom, in which the orchestra itself no longer accompanies but really carries the action with inventive phrasing, a sense of rhythm, accents and lines, and impressive virtuosity in relentless, rigorously precise accelerandi. One can savour the lightness of the woodwinds, the varied colours of the brass and, as a bonus, particularly in the overture, a play on variations and appogiaturas that completely renews the spirit. It may come as a surprise that this novelty comes to us from Germany, where the Eroica Berlin orchestra, founded by Jakob Lehmann, is based." L'Avant-Scène Opéra

https://www.asopera.fr/articles/2857/l-italiana-in-algeri

19/06/2024

FINALLY BACK ON CD!

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: The Idiot
with Juhan Tralla/Steven Scheschareg/Ludmila Slepnova/Thomas Sanderling/Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
PC10460
UPC: 7619990104600

»URAUFFÜHRUNG DES JAHRES 2013« (OPERNWELT)Der junge Fürst Myschkin kehrt nach einem langjährigen Klinikaufenthalt in der Schweiz mittellos nach Sankt Petersb...

17/06/2024

REVIEW

"Right from the very first bars, I sat up straight. A live recording (from the Delphi Theatre in Berlin), a small label, young soloists, a conductor not known as a Rossini specialist - it was reminiscent of the recordings from the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad: nice, sympathetic but not something to have great expectations of. It turned out differently and even became a big surprise! Not only because of the sparkling interpretations, but especially because of the way conductor Jakob Lehmann and the ensemble Eroica Berlin handled the score. It also soon became clear that terms like historicising or authentic approach here only approximate how they went about their work." Paul Korenhof for Opus Klassiek

David Oštrek (Mustafà), Polly Ott - Soprano (Elvira), Laura Murphy (Zulma), Adam Kutny (Haly), Milos Bulajic (Lindoro), Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano (Isabella), Manuel Walser (Taddeo)
Neuer Männerchor Berlin
Eroica Berlin
Jakob Lehmann
Pan Classics PC 10455

https://www.opusklassiek.nl/cd-recensies/cd-pk/pkrossini_italiana_algeri_lehmann.htm

08/06/2024

The Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996), who lost his family due to National Socialism, fled to Russia and, again, was later subjected to Stalinist persecution, was one of the unjustly forgotten composers of the 20th century until recently. He left behind a considerable oeuvre and, since the advent of an impressive Renaissance during recent years, he is today considered one of the most important composers of the Soviet Union alongside Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
The Idiot, based on the novel of the same title by Dostoyevsky, is Weinberg's final opera, composed during the mid-1980s. This live recording from the Mannheim National Theatre in 2014 documents the production with which Weinberg's Idiot received its world premiere one year previously in Mannheim, unanimously celebrated by audiences and critics alike. The renowned specialists' journal "Die Opernwelt" even named the production "the performance of the year".

Nationaltheater Mannheim, Thomas Sanderling
The Idiot (Russian)
PC10460
UPC 7619990104600

30/05/2024

REVIEW 17/20

"Von der ersten Minute an prickelt die Stimmung, fliegen die musikalischen Bälle in aberwitzigem Tempo hin und her, überträgt sich die Spielfreude. Dabei gibt es veritable Entdeckungen, wenn etwa David Ostrek mit viel komischem Gespür den Mustafá gibt oder Hannah Ludwig die ihre eigenwillige Isabella sorglos auch mal aggressiv röhren lässt, um sich danach sogleich wieder in reinere Höhen aufzuschwingen." Musik an sich

https://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=24968

28/05/2024

MEET THE ARTISTS of
Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
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The Neue Männerchor Berlin is a young and dynamic male choir that works on a project basis. The ensemble was founded in 2019 by Adrian Emans and has since realised a number of exciting projects, including concerts, collaborations with renowned orchestras and radio play recordings for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. In May 2022, the Neue Männerchor Berlin made its debut in the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonie as part of the Berlin Choir Association's Sunday concert series. Also in May 2022, the choir achieved an "outstanding success" at the Berlin Choral Meeting and was forwarded to the German Choir Competition in Hanover 2023 with 24.6 out of 25 points. There, the choir achieved a "very good success" and 4th place at the top of the German choral scene.

The Neue Männerchor Berlin is made up of vocal students, former music students and singers with many years of choral experience and is put together on a project-by-project basis. The choir's musical focus is on a ca****la literature, but choral symphonic projects are also part of the musical programme.

The Neuer Männerchor Berlin is a partner ensemble of the Neuer Kammerchor Berlin and has been a registered non-profit organisation since 2023.

28/05/2024

REVIEW ****

"First of all, there is the enormous musical spontaneity achieved by conductor Jakob Lehmann. Also noteworthy is the historically informed orchestral playing, which is unusual for its dry sharpness and fine chasing, but stands out for its rare richness of detail. The emphasis on the bass foundation with three double basses (as opposed to 11 violins) is very unusual.

The continuo group of fortepiano, cello, and double bass is also unusual.

The vocal ensemble is young and sings with enthusiasm. David Ostrek is a pleasantly singing (i.e. not exaggerating) Mustafa, Hannah Ludwig a characterful and vocally quite remarkable, full-sounding Isabella." Pizzicato

https://www.pizzicato.lu/litaliana-in-algeri-in-historisch-informierter-auffuhrung/?doing_wp_cron=1715677674.2017719745635986328125

27/05/2024

Kai Luehrs-Kaiser hat für rbbKultur ein Schätzchen ausgegraben. Die ganze Sendung zum Nachhören gibt es hier:

https://www.radiodrei.de/programm/schema/sendungen/meine_musik/archiv/20240521_1400.html

Die CD Box ist im gut sortierten Fachhandel sowie online erhältlich.

Die Ära Cosima - Sänger der Bayreuther Festspiele 1876-1906
Interpret: Alois Burgstaller/Alfred van Barry/Theodor Bertram/Emmy Destinn/Ernest van Dyck/u.a.
Komponist: Richard Wagner
Tonträger: CD
Anzahl: 12
Bestellnummer: PC10288
EAN: 7619990102880

27/05/2024

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Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
PC10455
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Swiss baritone Manuel Walser studied singing with Thomas Quasthoff at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and graduated with honours. He was awarded 1st prize and the audience prize at the international "Das Lied" competition in Berlin in 2013.

Manuel Walser was a permanent member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble for five seasons until 2019. In January 2018, Manuel Walser made his debut at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden as Harlequin in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. In February 2021, he made his debut in Strauss' Salome at La Scala in Milan and in summer 2021 he appeared as Donner in a new production of Wagner's Rheingold at the Erl Festival, where he also made his role debut as Gunther in Wagner's Götterdämmerung in August 2023. He will return there for the entire Ring in summer 2024. In December 2022, Manuel Walser was heard as the narrator in a new production of Mozart's Magic Flute at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and made his debut as Papageno in a concert performance of The Magic Flute under the direction of Martin Wåhlberg in autumn 2023.

Manuel Walser has been a busy concert performer for a long time. He has worked with renowned orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Orkest, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the J. S. Bach Foundation, the Concentus Musicus Wien and the Ensemble Pygmalion under conductors such as Anja Bihlmaier, Alfred Eschwé, Stefan Gottfried, Manfred Honeck, Martin Haselböck, Ton Koopman, Jonathan Nott, Raphaël Pichon, Andreas Spering and Jordi Savall.

Manuel Walser is particularly passionate about the lied genre. Song recitals have taken him to Barcelona, Paris, London's Wigmore Hall, the Schubertíada Vilabertran, the Pierre Boulez Saal, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Musikverein, Munich, Zurich, the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.

The Wiener Konzerthaus presented Manuel Walser as a "Great Talent" with various concerts in the 2019-2020 season, where he will return with Bach cantatas, Heinichen's Le nozze di Nettuno e di Teti and Bach's St Matthew Passion. Other highlights this season include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Beethoven's IX. Symphony, as well as Bach's St John Passion under Jordi Savall, Bach cantatas together with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Kristian Bezuidenhout, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Residentie Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Grams, Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg under the direction of Jörg Endebrock and his debut in the title role of Mendelssohn's Elijah under the direction of Johanna Soller with the Munich Bach Orchestra at the Ottobeuren Basilica Concerts.

26/05/2024

REVIEW

"Gioacchino Rossini gehört im 21. Jahrhundert wieder zu den vielgespielten Komponisten auf den internationalen Opernbühnen – man bekommt viel Rares zu hören, aber natürlich auch seine unverwüstlichen Dauerbrenner, die seit 200 Jahren immer präsent sind. Neben dem Barbier von Sevilla ist das vor allem die "Italienerin in Algier". Die komische Oper wurde vor zwei Jahren hier im Berliner "Theater im Delphi" unter der Leitung von Jakob Lehmann aufgeführt – nun ist sie bei Pan Classics auf CD erschienen.

Keine Seltenheit auf dem Markt – was aber macht Jakob Lehmann anders als seine Vorgänger? Matthias Käther verrät es." rbbKultur

https://www.radiodrei.de/programm/schema/sendungen/klassik_bis_zwei/archiv/20240510_1000/neue_aufnahmen_1210.html

25/05/2024

Wer kann es besser erklären als die Künstler selbst? Jakob Lehmann spricht über die Aufführung von Gioachino Rossinis "L´Italiana in Algeri", deren Aufnahme wir in diesem Monat veröffentlicht haben.

Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
mit David Oštrek /Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano /Miloš Bulajić /Manuel Walser, Bariton /Jakob Lehmann /Eroica Berlin /Neuer Männerchor Berlin
PC10455
EAN: 7619990104556

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXS7lsgNDVk

24/05/2024

REVIEW

"The latter produces the closest to a period sound yet heard on any recording of “L’Italiana,” including the past year’s release from Glossa Music. For example, the use of a fortepiano creates an intriguing soundscape in the recitatives; it is seemingly at odds with the recording tradition by unmasking the music’s historical roots, so to speak.." Operawire

READ FULL REVIEW HERE and learn more about the BRILLIANT cast:
https://operawire.com/cd-review-pan-classics-litaliana-in-algeri/

24/05/2024

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Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
PC10455
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Miloš Bulajić was born in Bonn/Germany to a family with serbian origins. He started playing the piano at age 7, later studied as a piano soloist first at the Berlin conservatory UDK and later parallel to his singing studies in Würzburg graduating with a concert diploma. He has studied singing with the late Leandra Overmann in Würzburg aswell as with Helene Schneiderman and Daniela Sindram. Since 2017 he is working on his vocal development with KS. Deborah Polaski in her studio in Berlin.
He was a member of the young ensemble (opera studio) at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin lead by Mo. Barenboim for two seasons where he sung in over 115 main stage performances in a vide repertoire including Brighella in „Ariadne auf Naxos“, 1. Geharnischter and Priest in the „Magic Flute", Heinrich der Schreiber in „Tannhäuser“, Conte di Lerma and Araldo in „Don Carlo“ and the Tenor solo in „Petite Messe Solennelle“.
He made his debuts at the Salzburg Festival in 2014 being part of the „young singers project“ where he sung Don Ramiro and Belmonte in studio productions and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, being part of the prestigious „Accademia rossiniana“ led by Mo. Alberto Zedda at that time, who invited him to sing the role of Conte di Libenskof in „Viaggio a Reims“.

Further guest contracts brought him with Tonio in „La fille du Régiment“ to Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Theater Biel/Solothurn in Switzerland and to the Royal Operahouse Covent Garden in London to cover the same role, Lindoro in „Italiana in Algeri“ to Nationaltheater Weimar (directed by Tobias Kratzer) and to Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Libenskof in „Viaggio a Reims“ to Opera Graz, Italian Singer in „Rosenkavalier“ to Staatstheater Schwerin, Don Ramiro in „La Cenerentola“ to the operahouses of Braunschweig, Linz, Munich, Magdeburg, Osnabrück and Sofia National Opera, Almaviva in „Barbiere di Siviglia“ to Innsbruck, Magdeburg, Meiningen and Teatro Menotti di Spoleto, Ernesto in „Don Pasquale“ to the austrian Festival castle Kirchstetten, Nadir in „Pearlfishers“ and Ferrando in „Cosi fan butte“ to Theater Pforzheim, Don Ottavio to Theater Regensburg, Alfred in Fledermaus to Theater Freiburg, Paolino in „Matrimonio Segreto“ to the National Opera Amsterdam, 4th Jew in Salome with Mo. Gergiev at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and with the Tenor solo in a staged production of Rossini´s Petite Messe Solennelle on a tour to the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Bregenz Festival aswell as to the Grand Theatre de Luxemburg, Erfurt, Berlin, Perpignan, Nimes and Antibes.
Recently he made his debut in the role of Edgardo in „Lucia di Lammermoor“ in Clermont-Ferrand, Tebaldo in „Capuleti e Montecchi“ in Biel/Bienne, Tamino in „Magic flute“ at Staatstheater Cottbus, sung again Lindoro in „Italiana in Algeri“ in Kaiserslautern, Alfred in „Fledermaus“ at the French opera houses in Rennes, Avignon, Toulon, Nantes and Angers, Lindoro in Berlin with Eroica - orchestra and Petite Messe Solennelle at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Ernesto in „Don Pasquale“ at Teatro Comunale di Sassari in Italy and his debut in Vienna at Theater an der Wien in Weinberger Opera „Schwanda the bagpiper“ (directed by Tobias Kratzer).

He worked with the conductors Alessandro De Marchi, Patrick Lange, Alberto Zedda, Valery Gergiev, Simone Young, Massimo Zanetti, Antonello Allemandi, Daniele Squeo, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Eun Sun Kim, Stefan Soltesz, Theodor Guschlbauer, Karl Heinz Steffens, Benjamin Bayl, Srba Dinić, Daniel Inbal, Alexander Soddy, Oksana Lyniv, Joana Mallwitz, Michael Hofstetter, Domingo Hindoyan and stage directors Andrea Moses, Hans Neuenfels, Jürgen Flimm, Calixto Bieito, Andreas Homoki, Tobias Kratzer, Bernd Mottl, Andreas Bäsler, Brigitte Fassbänder, Anette Leistenschneider, Dominik Wilgenbus, Hans Hollmann and Nicola Hümpel (Nico and the Navigators).

His concert and oratorio repertoire which he performed with orchestras such as the Danish Radio-Symphony-Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Concert Royal Cologne brought him with Bach´s St. Matthews Passion and Christmas oratorio to the Berlin Philharmonic hall and the Cathedral in Aachen, Mendelssohn´s Lobgesang to Westminster hall in London, Rossini´s Start Mater to Neubrandenburg, Freiberg, London and the Teatre principal de Palma de Mallorca, Rossini Messe di Gloria to Cottbus and Hildesheim, Puccinis Messe di Gloria to Saffron Walden Hall in Essex/UK, Bruckners Te Deum to Fulda, Carmina Burana to Freiberg, the Mozart Requiem to Bamberg, Wiesbaden and Belgrade and Mendelssohn´s Elijah to Berlin.

Still active as a pianist, he appears mainly with chamber music like the Beethoven Duo Sonatas for Violin and Piano aswell as some Lied repertoire by Brahms, Schubert and Mozart as an accompanist like recently at the LIFE Victoria de los Angeles Liedfestival in Barcelona or at „Wohntonfestival“ in Osnabrück.

23/05/2024

SNEAK PEAK!
Watch now the "PER LUI CHE ADORO" of " L´Italiana in Algeri" from

Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
with David Oštrek /Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano /Miloš Bulajić /Manuel Walser, Bariton /Jakob Lehmann /Eroica Berlin /Neuer Männerchor Berlin
PC10455
UPC: 7619990104556

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ucjWPZN9s

22/05/2024

MEET THE ARTIST of
Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
PC10455
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The New York Times calls Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano “best in show” and further exclaims “Her tone chocolaty and large, yet with focus and agility, she captured the integral aspect of bel canto…expression emerging from a long, intelligently shaped musical line.” In the 2023-24 season, she makes her debut with the New York Philharmonic singing Handel’s Messiah and she joins the Des Moines Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.She also rejoins Teatro Nuovo singing excerpts of Arsace in Semiramide and Calbo in Maometto II in concert as well as returns to more Rossini and the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Louisiane and sings the Page in Salome in her debut with the Houston Symphony. Her future engagements include her Metropolitan Opera debut. Last season she returned to the Colorado Symphony for Elgar’s Sea Pictures and made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra singing Handel’s Messiah. She returned to the roles of Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri with Eroica Berlin and Maddalena in Rigoletto with Utah Opera as well as to Dallas Opera as Flosshilde in Das Rheingold.

Her scheduled performances of Szymanowski’s Stabat mater with Gianandrea Noseda conducting the National Symphony Orchestra and her international debut with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón performing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde were cancelled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A solo program of bel canto repertoire originally written for the castrato fach with the Bochumer Symphoniker and a return to the Columbus Symphony for Handel’s Messiah will be rescheduled.

A prolific interpreter of the repertoire of Rossini, she has joined Teatro Nuovo as Pippo in La gazza ladra, Isaura in Tancredi, and Rosina in Il barbiere di Sviglia; her performances of Calbo in Maometto II were also cancelled due to COVID-19. She sang further performances of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Annapolis Opera and on film with Opera Louisiane and, also in the bel canto realm, she sang her first performances of Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena with Baltimore Concert Opera, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Philadelphia, and excerpts of Adalgisa in Norma with the Sacramento Philharmonic. She made her Dallas Opera debut as Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte and has sung the District Attorney in Davis’ Central Park Five with Portland Opera, and Ljubica in Sokolović’s Svadba with Boston Lyric Opera.

On the concert stage, she sang her first performances of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with the Colorado Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem with the Columbus Symphony, both under the baton of Rossen Milanov, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. Her other recent concert appearances include Handel’s Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as well as Mozart’s Requiem and Forrest’s Requiem for the Living with MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall. She presented “Songs from a Distance,” a recital featuring Schubert, Argento, Boyle, and Musto as well as a series of outdoor concerts by Opera Delaware and Baltimore Concert Opera.

Ms. Ludwig is a graduate of the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts, at which she sang a host of roles that include Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Charlotte in Werther, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Fricka in Das Rheingold, Azucena in Il trovatore, Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and the Nurse in The Demon. With the Aspen Music Festival, she performed Ursule in Béatrice et Bénédict conducted by Johannes Debus and Sesto in La clemenza di Tito led by Maestro Jane Glover. In her home state of California, she has sung Ruggiero in Alcina at the Napa Music Festival.

She won second place in the 2018 Loren L Zachary Society for the Performing Arts Vocal Competition. She has received encouragement awards from the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Gulf Coast Region, and the Licia Albanese-Puccini International Vocal Competition. She is also a grant winner of the Giulio Gari Vocal competition.

Prior to attending the Academy of Vocal Arts, Ms. Ludwig received her Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from the University of the Pacific.

21/05/2024

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Watch now the "GIÀ D'INSOLITO ARDORE" of " L´Italiana in Algeri" from

Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
with David Oštrek /Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano /Miloš Bulajić /Manuel Walser, Bariton /Jakob Lehmann /Eroica Berlin /Neuer Männerchor Berlin
PC10455
UPC: 7619990104556

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20/05/2024

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Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
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Croatian-born David Oštrek studied singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and has since been a finalist and prizewinner in numerous singing competitions. In 2010, he made his debut in the role of Aeneas in Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" at the Croatian National Theatre in Varaždin. At the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre, he played Masetto in "Don Giovanni" and the title role in "Gianni Schicchi". In the 2015/16 season, David Oštrek became a member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, sponsored by the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation. Here he sang in Stephen Oliver's "Mario and the Magician", Rossini's "Petite Messe solennelle", "La traviata", "Ariadne auf Naxos", Aribert Reimann's "Die Gespenstersonate", "L'incoronazione di Poppea" and "Tosca", among others. He has also made guest appearances at the Bregenz Festival, the Daegu Opera House in South Korea, the Stadttheater Wels, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival and the Staatstheater Braunschweig, where he made his role debut as Escamillo in "Carmen". He has been a permanent member of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden ensemble since the 2018/19 season and appeared here as Leporello in "Don Giovanni", as Roderick Usher in the world premiere of "Usher" and as Tisiphone in Rameau's "Hippolyte et Aricie". He has also appeared in "La traviata", "Il barbiere di Siviglia", "Macbeth", "Pelléas et Mélisande" and "La Bohème".

19/05/2024

PERFORMANCE

Check out the pictures of the performance of "Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri", which took place at Theater im Delphi (Berlin, Germany) in October 2022.

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Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
with David Oštrek /Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano /Miloš Bulajić /Manuel Walser, Bariton /Jakob Lehmann /Eroica Berlin /Neuer Männerchor Berlin
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17/05/2024

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Gioachino Rossini: L´Italiana in Algeri
with David Oštrek /Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano /Miloš Bulajić /Manuel Walser, Bariton /Jakob Lehmann /Eroica Berlin /Neuer Männerchor Berlin
PC10455
UPC: 7619990104556

16/05/2024

Daniel Behle - Tenor ist ab morgen in der Titelrolle von "La clemenza di Tito" bei den Salzburger Festspiele | Salzburg Festival zu hören. Wer - wie wir - nicht genug von dem Startenor bekommen kann, findet einige seiner Aufnahmen in unserem Katalog.

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16/05/2024

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Eroica Berlin is a chamber orchestra made up of young Berlin musicians and was founded by Jakob Lehmann in 2015. The direct, unfiltered transmission of emotions and the incorporation of insights from historical performance practice unite the ensemble, as does the conviction that in today's event and performance culture, the music itself and its content must take centre stage despite everything. The musicians search with energy and enthusiasm for ways to give classical music the central position in the society of the future that it already has in their own lives. Eroica Berlin has performed at leading venues in Germany and Austria, such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and works with renowned soloists. In 2022, the chamber orchestra was accepted into Neustart Kultur's ensemble funding programme and will present a series of concerts at its musical home, the Theater in Delphi in Berlin-Weißensee, featuring works by composers as diverse as Johann Sebastian Bach, Gioachino Rossini, Sofia Gubaidulina and Arvo Pärt. In November 2022, the ensemble will perform in the Berlin Philharmonie for the first time.

Pic by Georg Tedeschi