Deutsche Grammophon (DG) and medici.tv have announced a partnership to take live video content, audio recordings and merchandise to subscribers around the world. Under the terms of the partnership, medici.tv subscribers will also enjoy unique DG Store benefits, such as early access and exclusive drops.The partnership will come during the prestigious Verbier Festival, which will see medici.tv and STAGE+ broadcast {…}
In celebration of World Opera Day, Deutsche Grammophon has announced that its streaming service STAGE+ is now available for Android users. On World Opera Day (Oct. 25), subscribers are invited to engage with “STAGE+ celebrates World Opera Day.” On this day, streaming events offered free of charge include Pretty Yende and Nadine Sierra in Concert from the Philharmonie de Paris, {…}
“Tosca”—yet another one. OperaDIS lists no fewer than 250 recordings, but stops short after the year 2009. For all we know, the newest release—by DG—may be the 500th in an endless loop of “recondite armonie.” But “Tosca” has not lost its appeal, and any new, star-studded interpretation is likely to elicit widespread attention. This is most certainly the case when {…}
Operabase has announced that it will be integrating CueTV into STAGE+, Deutsche Grammophon’s premiere classical music streaming platform. Per an official press release, the partnership means that CueTV has ceased operations as of Dec. 12, 2024 with STAGE+ set to replace it as the exclusive streaming site for CueTV subscribers and OperaBase users. “In STAGE+ we have found the perfect {…}
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 {…}