Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz division has promoted Dr. Clemens Trautmann to President of Deutsche Grammophon and New Business Strategy. In his new position, Trautmann will be responsible for “seeking opportunities across the breadth of UMG’s classical labels and artist rosters.” Universal noted that the appointment aims to strengthen its position in the classical genre and “enable greater {…}
Deutsche Grammophon’s Stage + is set to present three vocal performances in October. First, the Georg Solti Accademia will present a star-studded gala at the Hungarian State Opera and will feature Aigul Akhmetshina, Freddie De Tommaso, Hera Hyesang Park, and Paul Grant, all alumni of the Georg Solti Accademia’s Bel Canto Course for Singers. This is the first time these four {…}
Deutsche Grammophon’s streaming platform Stage + has released new recordings from Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča and Nadine Sierra. The platform released a 2019 recording of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” from the Arena di Verona starring Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Dolora Zajick, and Luca Salsi. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts the Franco Zeffirelli production. The platform also released a 2021 recording of Verdi’s {…}
Deutsche Grammophon is set to release “Nadine Sierra & Pretty Yende in Concert.” The new album features the two sopranos in a live concert from Paris in 2023. The program includes familiar and timeless works by Leonard Bernstein, Victor Herbert, and Louis Guglielm as well as works by Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini, Delibes, Gounod, and Offenbach. Les Frivolités Parisiennes is conducted {…}
Jonathan Tetelman’s “Arias” ranks, to who currently writes, among the most sensational debuts in recent years. With a program tailored to his velvety and, at times, dusky tenor voice it made the heavy hitters from both the French and Italian repertoires sound as fresh and untainted as if one had heard them for the very first time. Yet its successor, {…}
Deustche Grammophon’s Stage + is set to stream Nadine Sierra and Francesco Demuros’ gala concert from the Festival Cap Rocat. The company will broadcast the concert, which was filmed on the coast of Majorca earlier this month, on August 26, 2023. Demuro and Sierra were joined by the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands and conductor Pablo Mielgo. The concert {…}
Deutsche Grammophon has announced Jonathan Tetelman’s second album “The Great Puccini.” The new album presents extracts from nine operas, including such well-known arias as “Nessun dorma,” “Che gelida manina,” and “E lucevan le stelle,” as well as numbers from less familiar operas such as “Le villi” and “La rondine.” Tetelman is joined by the PKF – Prague Philharmonia, conductor Carlo {…}
Deutsche Grammophon has announced that it will continue as the global media partner with the Bayreuth Festival. In 2022, the label launched its ground-breaking classical music platform, STAGE+, which hosted the international premiere screenings of Valentin Schwarz’s thought-provoking new production of “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” The collaboration will open with Jay Scheib’s highly anticipated “Parsifal” from the Festspielhaus on STAGE+ one day after {…}
Deutsche Grammophon has announced the launch of STAGE+, a classical music subscription service which offers livestreamed performances, archived videos, and new audio releases on a single platform. Subscribers will receive access to content from a wide range of Universal Music Group artists, such as exclusive premieres, concert and opera programs, documentaries, albums, and more. The platform has also partnered with {…}
Deutsche Grammophon has announced that it will once again be the exclusive international media partner of the Bayreuth Festival 2022. The company noted that it will expand its longstanding partnership as it will build on the benchmark standards of online streaming that the partnership has set in the last two years. Deutsche Grammophon will record Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle tetralogy {…}
Rolando Villazón is set to perform a recital with harpist Xavier de Maistre for an exclusive livestream on the Deutsche Grammophon Stage. The concert, which is set for July 16, will be entitled “Serenata Latina” and will feature the tenor and harpist from the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. The concert features a program of intimate arrangements of Latin American songs {…}