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“Zarewitsch rhymes with 'Slavic kitsch'. Lehár's inconsequential piece of fluff about the romance between the heir to the throne and a Circassian dancer enjoys classy casting.” BBC Music Magazine

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart authored his 1768 one-act singspiel Bastien und Bastienne at age 12, at the behest of Dr. Anton Mesmer; Thomas Reichert staged and directed a production of the work at the Salzburger Marionettentheater, which was filmed live and now appears in this home video release. Alfred Kleinheinz, Radu Cojocariu, Bernhard Berchtold, Evmorfia Metaxaki and Aleksandra Zamojska perform the story of the two titular lovers, driven apart by petty jealousies and romantic rivalries but reunited by the machinations of the soothsayer Colas. Salzburg's Jung Philharmonie, under the baton of maestro Elisabeth Fuchs, provides musical accompaniment. Nathan Southern, Rovi

This Covent Garden performance has transferred to video and DVD remarkably successfully, partly because the singing and acting of the principals is so good, but chiefly because conductor Georg Solti finds an excellent balance between sharp characterisation and sumptuous romance; between wit and mischief on the one hand and profound feelings on the other. Though sensitive to its beauties, Solti keeps the music moving along, never becoming sloppy or over-indulgent.

Jetzt! Die Kraft der Gegenwart - Ein Leitfaden zum spirituellen Erwachen

Ein lebender Meister liest aus eigenen Texten

Millionen Leser weltweit haben Eckhart Tolles »Jetzt! Die Kraft der Gegenwart« verschlungen wie einen Krimi, selten hat ein spirituelles Buch in so kurzer Zeit solch hohe Auflagen erzielt. Kein Wunder: Mit seiner weisen und liebevollen Art hat Eckhart Tolle eine Lücke gefüllt. Selbst zur höchsten Wahrheit erwacht, spricht er dennoch eine Sprache, die das Herz eines jeden berührt. Er ist auf derselben Ebene, spricht dieselbe Sprache wie jeder von uns, und seine Worte treffen zielgenau. Sie betreffen unser Leben, unsere Entwicklung, unsere Transformation.

Mit der vorliegenden Audio-Version seines Buches hat Eckhart all seinen deutschen Lesern ein besonderes Geschenk gemacht: Er liest sein Buch – auf deutsch! Nach mehr als 25 Jahren in Kanada und den USA hat er (für ihn selbst überraschend) zu der Sprache seiner Kindheit zurückgefunden. Welche Kostbarkeit! Lehnen Sie sich zurück, schließen Sie die Augen, und lassen Sie die Worte eines lebenden Meisters auf sich wirken.

The unrivalled Bayreuth Centenary Ring by Boulez/Chéreau sent ripples through art and society even before the curtain was lifted. Leaflets were distributed, signatures were collected and musicians left the orchestra pit in disgust, all because of disagreements over the bold new interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle by conductor Pierre Boulez. The festival hired 31-year-old film and theatre director Patrice Chéreau, a relative unknown.

Filmed at a series of outstanding performances at the Teatro Real de Madrid in December 2016, this recording will especially delight lovers of Wagnerian music drama with its faithful reflection of the grandiose staging of Àlex Ollé, a member of La Fura dels Baus, whose earlier productions have attracted widespread attention. A conductor equally at home in Monteverdi, Boulez, Praetorius and Schumann, Pablo Heras-Casado can rely on a cast totally committed to this breathtaking musical hurricane!

Orpheus in the Underworld represents a quantum leap in Offenbach’s operetta output, for it would have been unthinkable to have created a stage work of such opulence and extravagance in Paris prior to that time. Strict regulations dating from the era of Napoleon I assigned to each of the city’s theatres a specific dramatic genre and a proportionate number of employees and performers. For Offenbach this meant writing for no more than three actors on stage at any one time. He openly flouted the regulations, however, ingeniously increasing his dramatic possibilities by adding puppets to his cast list and conveying what he had to say by means of banners held up by mute actors…