Charles Castronovo
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Verdi: La Traviata
Marina Rebeka, Charles Castronovo, George Petean, Latvian Festival Orchestra, State Choir Latvija & Michael Balke
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Rebeka)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Castronovo)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Petean)
2 CDs
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Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Diana Damrau (Lucia), Charles Castronovo (Edgardo), Ludovic Tézier (Enrico), Taylor Stayton (Arturo), Kwangchul Youn (Raimondo), Rachael Lloyd (Alisa), Peter Hoare (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren, Katie Mitchell (dir.)
The staging is over-stuffed but it is not stupid or careless…Minute alterations in the textures of Donizetti’s orchestration are brilliantly clear. Were you not already persuaded that the opera... — More…
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Mascagni: L’amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: La Traviata
Ermonela Jaho (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Placido Domingo (Germont)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus, Antonella Manacorda, Richard Eyre (director)
[Jaho's] tone is never what one could call ‘lustrous’, but she gets inside the character so thoroughly that one cannot help but suffer with her...and she battles so hard in Act 3 that one harbours... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Jaho)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Castronovo)
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Verdi: La Traviata
Ermonela Jaho (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Placido Domingo (Germont)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus, Antonella Manacorda, Richard Eyre (director)
[Jaho's] tone is never what one could call ‘lustrous’, but she gets inside the character so thoroughly that one cannot help but suffer with her...and she battles so hard in Act 3 that one harbours... — More…
Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Jaho)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Castronovo)
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Anna Netrebko (Donna Anna), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Malena Ernman (Donna Elvira), Charles Castronovo (Don Ottavio), Katija Dragojevic (Zerlina), Jonathan Lemalu (Masetto), Mario Luperi (Commendatore)
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchestra, Balthasar-Neumann-Choir, Thomas...
[Schrott] looks wonderful, is a natural and extraordinarily gifted actor, and has so much sinister charm that one understands why no woman can resist him. He has a rich voice, with many subtle... — More…
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Massenet: Thérèse
Nora Gubisch (Thérèse), Charles Castronovo (Armand de Clerval), Étienne Dupuis (André Thorel), François Lis (Morel), Yves Saelens (Un Officier), Patrick Bolleire (Un Officier / Un Officier municipal), Gaspard Ferret (Une Voix)
Choeur et Orchestre Opéra national Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon,...
Altinoglu conducts with idiomatic flair, varying the pace in a way that points up the score’s strengths. Gubisch’s contralto-ish Thérèse sounds a touch matronly, but the tender husband-and-wife... — More…
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10th Annual Opera Gala
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, René Pape (bass vocal), Michèle Crider (soprano), Ko Seng Hyoun (baritone), Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Juliane Banse (soprano), Salvatore Licitra (tenor), Ulrich Paetzholdt (chorus master),...
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Amour Eternel
Ekaterina Siurina (soprano), Charles Castronovo (tenor), Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian
The disc makes a good ‘calling card’ for an artist deservedly an internationally active soprano...as she makes a transition from her coloratura origins to a more lyric Fach…It’s as Mimì that... — More…
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