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Blu-Ray Video, Riccardo Frizza (conductor)
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Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), John Osborn (Roberto Devereux), Simone Piazzola (Duca di Nottingham), Raffaella Lupinacci (Sara, Duchessa di Nottingham), David Astorga (Lord Cecil), Ignas Melnikas (Sir Gualtiero Raleigh)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo...
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Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite
Annalisa Stroppa (Léonor de Guzman), Javier Camarena (Fernand), Florian Sempey (Alphonse XI), Evgeny Stavinsky (Balthazar), Edoardo Milletti (Don Gaspar)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Donizetti Opera and Coro dell’Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Valentina Carrasco, Riccardo Frizza
Javier Camarena is exemplary as Fernand, every inch the bel canto tenor in his celebrated final act aria ‘Ange si pur’. Florian Sempey’s Alphonse is a gravel-voiced villain.. Annalisa Stroppa’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Opera Choice
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: Otello
Stuart Neill (Otello), Jessica Nuccio (Desdemona), Roberto Frontali (Jago), Tamta Tarieli (Emilia), Manuel Pierattelli (Roderigo), Seung Pil Choi (Lodovico), Giacomo Medici (Montano), Franco Di Girolamo (A Herald)
Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche, Riccardo Frizza
Neill is tireless as Otello, the voice and diction clear throughout and the stamina impressive. Much of his acting is thoroughly rudimentary but he rises to a moving 'Niun me tema'...[Nuccio]... —
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Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
Carmela Remigio (Lucrezia), Marko Mimica (Alfonso), Xabier Anduaga (Gennaro), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Orsini)
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Andrea Bernard, Riccardo Frizza
All three principals are firstrate. Carmela Remigio (Lucrezia) combines vocal sweetness with dramatic muscle. Marko Mimica is a casual psychopath in a leather coat and buzz cut. And the young... —
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Donizetti: Belisario
Roberto Frontali (Belisario), Simon Lim (Giustiniano), Carmela Remigio (Antonina), Annalisa Stroppa (Irene), Celso Albelo (Alamiro), Anaïs Mejías (Eudora), Klodjan Kacani (Eutropio), Stefano Gentili (Eusebio), Matteo Castrignano (Ottario), Orchestra e Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza
The principals are, without exception, first-rate. Roberto Frontali in the title role has a voice that speaks profoundly of authority and wisdom...Supporting roles, too, are finely sung, particularly... —
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Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth
Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), Carmela Remigio (Amelia), Stefan Pop (Warney), Xabier Anduaga (Leicester), Dario Russo (Lambourne) & Federica Vitali (Fanny)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza (conductor) & Maria Pilar Pérez Aspa (director)
Jessica Pratt’s Elizabeth takes a while to hit form, while as her rival Amelia Carmela Remigio is both physically and vocally expressive, offering liquid tone. As the two-timing Earl of Leicester,... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Don Giovanni
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Don Giovanni), Andrea Concetti (Leporello), Carmela Remigio (Donna Elvira), Myrto Papatanasiu (Donna Anna), Marlin Miller (Don Ottavio), Manuela Bisceglie (Zerlina), William Corrò (Masetto), Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Il Commendatore)
Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle...
A performance and production which are as near perfection as I can ever hope to experience…[D'Arcangelo] has just the right sleazy glamour for the role, both repellent and irresistible...His... —
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Gaetano Donizetti: Il Diluvio Universale
Nahuel Di Pierro (bass), Nicolò Donini, Davide Zaccherini, Eduardo Martínez, Sabrina Gárdez, Erica Artina, Sophie Burns, Enea Scala, Giuliana Gianfaldoni (soprano), Maria Elena Pepi (mezzo-soprano), Wangmao Wang, Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Salvo Sgrò, Matteo Ricchetti, Orchestra Donizetti...
Nahuel Di Pierro is a resonant Noah and Enea Scala a dastardly Cadmo, but the star turn comes from bright-toned soprano Giuliana Gianfaldoni as Sela, a real discovery...Frizza gets lively playing... —
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Caterina Sala (Adina), Javier Camarena (Nemorino), Florian Sempey (Belcore), Roberto Frontali (Dulcamara)
Orchestra Gli Originali, Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza, Frederic Wake-Walker
If this DVD will interest the Donizetti specialist, it also has much to offer to the opera neophyte...The acting is genial and the vocal casting luxurious, featuring singers at the forefront... —
