Label: Hänssler Profil, 2009
Catalogue: PH09004
3 CDs/SACDs

2010 BBC Music Magazine Award Winner:
Disc Of The Year & Opera Award

Artists

Lohengrin – Johan Botha
Elsa – Adrianne Pieczonka
Ortrud – Petra Lang
Friedrich von Telramund – Falk Struckmann
King Henry – Kwangchul Youn
Herald – Eike Wilm Schulte

WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Semyon Bychkov, conductor

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Tracklisting

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Disc 1

1-8	Act I
9-11	Act II, scene 1

Disc 2

1-5

Act II, scenes 2-5 Excerpt: Euch Lüften

Disc 3

1-6

Act III

Reviews

“Adrianne Pieczonka’s Elsa is also scrupulously delivered, once again with a delicacy and ethereality that summon up the character in the mind’s eye, yet with piercing potency where necessary…it surely merits a place among the most beautifully sung.”

Opera, June 2009

“Adrianne Pieczonka’s…distinctive soprano easily manages Elsa’s strangeness, her misapprehension, her doubts, and her naiveté. She’s gorgeous in her opening narrative and in “Euch luften”, stronger in the Love duet and dark when she realizes what she’s done…she’s splendid.”

Classics Today, 30 April 2009

“Johan Botha (Lohengrin) and Adrianne Pieczonka (as Lohengrin’s fatally curious bride) prove themselves ideal Wagnerians with their powerful, clarion-clear voices.”

ClassicFM, June 2009

“Adrianne Pieczonka, one of the top Wagnerian singers of our time, is in fabulous form as Elsa of Brabant in this majestic reading of Lohengrin.”

Toronto Star, 12 May 2009

“A glorious sense of line throughout the Act 2 duet between Adrianne Pieczonka’s Elsa and Petra Lang’s Ortrud.”

Financial Times, 19 April 2009

“…there is a radiance to much of [Adrianne Pieczonka’s] singing.”

Guardian, 15 May 2009