Founded in 2016, ensemble minui comprises five string and our wind players) active in the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian National- and the Vienna State Opera orchestras who perform reduced versions of works from the symphonic and operatic repertoire. While simple reductions of large orchestral works were initially on the program, opera music gradually became the great passion of ensemble minui. With the third album in their Opera Suites for Nonet series, the nine versatile musicians present stylish new perspectives on three large-scale opera works (Wagner’s Die Walküre, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, and Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten) in  arrangements by clarinetist Stefan Potzmann.