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Massenet: Don Quichotte from Bregenz Festival

“The Bregenz Festival discovers a dreamlike operatic beauty full of melancholy and farewell” (Salzburger Nachrichten).

The “striking interpretation” (Neue Musikzeitung) of Jules Massenet’s operatic rarity Don Quichotte at Bregenz Festival, received an “unanimous jubilation for director Mariame Clément, her outfitter Julia Hansen and the entire stage team: a typical Bregenz Festival orchid flourished!” (Neue Musikzeitung Online).
But this opera is also a musical discovery, not least because of the outstanding cast: “the balsamic sound of well-being of Gábor Bretz, David Stouts mobile Sancho Panza is also wonderfully shaded” (Salzburger Nachrichten) and “Anna Goryachova impresses as Dulcinée with vocal clarity and scenic presence” (Wiener Zeitung).

Original title Massenet: Don Quichotte from Bregenz Festival
Genre Opera
Recording location Bregenz Festival, August 2019
Duration 125 mins
Production Company A coproduction of ORF, tpc and UNITEL in cooperation with Bregenz Festival
Composer Jules Massenet
Orchestra / Band Wiener Symphoniker
Conductor Daniel Cohen
Choir Prague Philharmonic Choir
Chorus Master Lukáš Vasilek
Stage Director Mariame Clément
Soloist Gábor Bretz, David Stout, Anna Goryachova, Léonie Renaud, Vera Maria Bitter