Three Sisters / Drei Schwestern / Trois Soeurs



Year of release: 1999

Three Sisters - opera

Libretto: Claus H. Henneberg, Peter Eötvös
Russian version (based on Anton Tschechov's play)

 

Compact Disc 1 (43:29)
Compact Disc 2 (78:15)

 

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

 

Cast:
Andrej: Albert Schagidullin
Natasha: Gary Boyce (counter-tenor)
Olga: Alain Aubin (counter-tenor)
Masha: Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley (counter-tenor)
Irina: Oleg Riabets (counter-tenor)
Kuligin: Nikita Storojev
Verchinin: Wojtek Drabowicz
Tusenbach: Dietrich Henschel
Soljony: Denis Sedov
Doctor: Peter Hall
Fedotik: Marc Duguay
Rode: Ivan Matiakh
Anfisa: Jan Alofs

 

Conductors: Kent Nagano, Peter Eötvös

 

Staging: Ushio Amagatsu
Scene: Natsuyuki Nakanishi
Costume: Sayoko Yamaguchi
Light: Ushio Amagatsu, Genta Iwamura
General assistant: Keiji Morita

 

Recorded by Radio France
Live recording March 13, 1998, Lyon
Recording producer: Daniel Zalay
Post-production balance engineer: Stephan Flock

 

Deutsche Grammophon
459 694-2

 

 

awardedPrix de l'Académie Charles Cros (Paris, 1999)
awardedPrix Caecilia (Union de la presse musicale Belge, 2000)
awardedECHO Klassik-Preis 2000
awardedDIAPASON D'OR DE L'ANNEE - France 2000