The Classical Concert Hall

Filmed at the Opéra Bastille during lockdown in 2021, Tobias Kratzer’s new production of Faust reimagines Gounod’s opera for the 21st century. Deutsche Grammophon artist Benjamin Bernheim stars as Faust – as well as having already portrayed the role several times on stage, the French tenor recorded a stunning version...

Gaetano Donizetti was a prolific bel canto opera composer, writing 65 operas in just 32 years, several of which have become repertory staples. His second masterpiece and third of his Tudor Trilogy, Lucia di Lammermoor, was first premiered in 1835 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. The quintessentially...

Virtuoso harpist Magdalena Hoffmann, newly signed to Deutsche Grammophon, presents a varied programme of original works and transcriptions from Berlin’s Meistersaal. She begins with Respighi’s atmospheric Notturno before presenting one of the central works of the harp repertoire, Britten’s five-movement Suite, written for the legendary Welsh harpist Osian Ellis, who...