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FOR THE COMPLETE LIST OF 1.700 TITLES PLEASE CONTACT US OR VISIT OUR HOMEPAGE AT WWW.UNITEL.DE Unitel GmbH & Co. KG Grünwalder Weg 28d 82041 Oberhaching ∙ Germany CEO: Jan Mojto 5 Photo: Monika Rittershaus Avant PreCATALOGUEmi ère 2017 OPERA Cherubini: Medea (Dijon Opera / Krüger / Ruf) 12 Donizetti: La Favorite (Bayerische Staatsoper, München / Chichon / Niermeyer) 14 Faccio: Amleto (Bregenz Festival / Wiener Symphoniker / Carignani / Tambosi) 16 Gounod: Faust (Salzburg Festival / Wiener Philharmoniker / Pérez / von der Thannen) 18 Hosokawa: Stilles Meer (Staatsoper Hamburg / Nagano / Hirata) 20 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Fischer / Stein) 22 Puccini: La Bohème (Teatro Regio di Torino / Noseda / Ollé) 24 Respighi: La campana sommersa (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari / Renzetti / Maestrini) 26 R. Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae (Salzburg Festival / Wiener Philharmoniker / Welser-Möst / Hermanis) 28 Verdi: I due Foscari (Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Mariotti / Hermanis) 30 Verdi: Giovanna d’Arco (Teatro Farnese, Parma / I Virtuosi Italiani / Tebar / Boddeke & Greenaway) 32 Verdi: La traviata (Chorégies d'Orange / Rustioni / Désiré) 34 Verdi: Otello (Salzburg Easter Festival / Thielemann / Boussard) 36 Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Bayerische Staatsoper, München / Mehta / Erath) 38 Wagner: Lohengrin (Semperoper Dresden / Thielemann / Mielitz) 40 BALLET Babel 7.16 (Festival d’Avignon / Cherkaoui & Jalet) 42 Minkus: Don Quixote (Wiener Staatsballett / Nureyev) 43 CONCERT Badische Staatskapelle The Baden-Baden Opera Gala 44 Berliner Philharmoniker The Beethoven Symphony Cycle (S. Rattle) 47 Boulez & Mahler (S. Rattle) 47 Wagner & Bruckner (A. Nelsons) 48 Chausson, Debussy & Fauré (C. Karg, S. Koch, C. Thielemann) 48 Poulenc, Koechlin, Kurtág & Ravel (S. Rattle) 48 Camerata Salzburg Ravel, Gershwin & Kodály (Y. Wang, L. Bringuier) 50 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – The Inaugural Concert (B. Hannigan) 51 7 Avant PreCATALOGUEmi ère 2017 Collegium 1704 Biber: Missa Salisburgensis & Sacred Works by Monteverdi (V. Luks) 52 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Martinů & Mahler (J. Bělohlávek) 53 John Wilson Orchestra John Wilson Orchestra performs Gershwin (L. Dearman, J. Ovenden, M. Ford, J. Wison) 54 Münchner Philharmoniker Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Ustvolskaya & R. Strauss (B. Abduraimov, V. Gergiev) 55 The Complete Mozart Violin Concertos (V. Gergiev) 56 The Odeonsplatz Concert (V. Gergiev) 57 NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Elbphilharmonie Hamburg – The Inaugural Concert Gala (T. Hengelbrock) 89 The Brahms Symphony Cycle (T. Hengelbrock) 89 Orchestre de Paris Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust (C. Gerhaher, H.-E. Müller, D. Harding) 58 Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri (M. Goerne, C. Karg, D. Harding) 59 Berg & Mahler (I. Faust, C. Landshamer, D. Harding) 61 Hommage à Pierre Boulez (P. Järvi, M. Pintscher, B. Mantovani) 61 Orchestre Millenium Donizetti: Messa da Requiem (L. García Alarcón) 61 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Elgar & Sibelius (D. Müller-Schott, M. Elder) 62 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Daniele Gatti – The Inaugural Concert (C. Gerhaher) 62 Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (A. Dasch, D. Gatti) 62 Wagner, Liszt & Berlioz (D. Gatti) 65 Bach: Christmas Oratorio (T. Pinnock) 65 Staatskapelle Dresden Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden (S. Yoncheva, R. Mühlemann, A. Orozco-Estrada) 67 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (C. Thielemann) 67 Festive Gala from the Semperoper Dresden (N. Znaider, C. Thielemann) 69 Beethoven, Reger & R. Strauss (N. Znaider, C. Thielemann) 69 Brahms, Tchaikovsky & Liszt (L. Batiashvili, G. Capuçon, C. Thielemann) 69 Tonkünstler-Orchester Grafenegg Festival – Midsummer Night’s Gala 71 Festive Concert on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Grafenegg Festival 71 8 Avant PreCATALOGUEmi ère 2017 Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Hollywood in Vienna – A Tribute to Alexandre Desplat 73 Wiener Akademie Orchester Red Ribbon Celebration Concert (A. Netrebko, P. Bezcala, T. Hampson) 73 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra A Tango Evening at the Teatro Colón (C. Salgán, M. & D. Barenboim) 75 Widmann, Liszt & Wagner (M. Argerich, D. Barenboim) 75 The Human Rights Concert (D. Barenboim) 75 RECITAL Kit Armstrong – Bach’s Goldberg Variations and its Predecessors 76 Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim – Piano Duos at the Teatro Colón 77 CHAMBER MUSIC Prokofiev: The Complete Piano Sonatas 78 The Deadly Sins – Angels and Demons in the Works of Monteverdi 79 The Philharmonics & Thomas Hampson – “Golden Times” 81 Alison Balsom & The Balsom Ensemble – “In dulci jubilo” 81 Helmuth Rilling’s Weimar Bach Cantata Academy – Cantata Concerts and Lectures 81 DOCUMENTARIES Anne-Sophie Mutter – A Celebration 83 Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds – The Conductor Zubin Mehta 83 The Elbphilharmonie – Hamburg’s new Landmark 89 SERIES & SPECIALS Max Raabe & Palast Orchester – “Let's do it” 84 Stars of Tomorrow 85 The Myth of Beethoven – His Life in Six Sonatas 86 Super Diva – Opera for Everyone 87 9 OUR GREATEST PRODUCTIONS ARE GETTING EVEN GREATER! 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KG ∙ Tel: +49.89.673469-613 · [email protected] LUIGI CHERUBINI Tineke van Ingelgem Avi Klemberg MÉDÉE Frédéric Goncalves Magali Arnault Stanczak Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra Conducted by Nicolas Krüger Staged by Jean-Yves Ruf Dijon Opera Luigi Cherubini OPERA MÉDÉE CONCERT French original version of 1797 LUIGI CHERUBINI Libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman Orchestra Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra Chorus Dijon Opera Choir Chorus Master Anita Henne Chorus La Maîtrise de Dijon Tineke van Ingelgem Avi Klemberg Chorus Master Etienne Meyer Conductor Nicolas Krüger MÉDÉE Frédéric Goncalves Magali Arnault Stanczak Stage Director Jean-Yves Ruf Médée Tineke van Ingelgem Jason Avi Klemberg Créon Frédéric Goncalves Dircé Magali Arnault Stanczak Néris Yete Queiroz Sons of Jason & Médée Isaac El Hadad Quentin Mura Video Director Frédéric Delesques Luigi Cherubini’s most famous opera Médée is based on the universal and timeless tragedy Medea by the Greek poet Euripides. With a HELIOX Films in co-production with Dijon Opera and Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra mother who exacts revenge for her husband’s betrayal by killing their In association with ClassicAll M _ Media and UNITEL own children, it is undoubtedly one of the most violent and frigid with the