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In addition to their artistic complexity, Schubert's songs revel in the directly expressive power of melody. But you wouldn't have known it from Matthias Goerne's laboriously mannered account of "Die ...

A wealth of vocal music is heading our way this month, beginning with German baritone Matthias Goerne, who comes to San Francisco Opera’s new Atrium Theater with a performance of Schubert’s ...

Every great lieder singer cares deeply about text, the sound of the German words and how music adds a spiritual dimension to poetry. Matthias Goerne is a great lieder singer, one of the finest of his ...

Chilly, haunting, and uncommonly beautiful, Friday night’s SF Opera Lab performance of “Winterreise” was an unforgettable experience. With the great German baritone Matthias Goerne accompanied by ...

German baritone Mattias Goerne, an internationally known vocalist, will give a recital of works by Franz Schubert at Weill Hall on April 24. For German lieder lovers, this weekend’s recital by German ...

Songs, we’re told, are on a different scale from opera. Songs are intimate. Songs require restraint. Monday night at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the baritone Matthias Goerne didn’t so much ...

Matthias Goerne looks less like a classical musician than a blue-collar worker — although there was no collar at all on the T-shirt he wore under his suit at the Terrace Theater on Monday night. He ...

“Who owns the most beautiful voice in the world?” I asked in 2005. “It’s a ridiculous question, of course, but it may have an answer: Matthias Goerne, the German baritone.” My review continued, The ...

Just as most British music critics and journalists were raging against the latest Arts Council financial diktat, Parisians were able to witness and feel part of an event which demonstrated clearly ...

It was also an experience of often profound security and expressive inspiration. Goerne has not only an exceptionally velvety, hush-grained baritone, but he almost never doubts the live emotional ...

A nonpareil, nerd-cool presence with a sometimes internally focused stage energy, German baritone Matthias Goerne seems to be attracted to only a few operatic roles. The Metropolitan Opera has hosted ...