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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Günther Groissböck (Sarastro), Saimir Pirgu (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Alex Esposito (Papageno) & Peter Bronder (Monostatos)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Roland...
This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD...[Esposito's Papageno] sung with glorious abandon, while his acting... — More…
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Puccini: Turandot
Nina Stemme (Turandot), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Calaf), Maria Agresta (Liù), Alexander Tsymbaluk (Timur), Angelo Veccia (Ping), Roberto Covatta (Pang), Blagoj Nacoski (Pong), Carlo Bosi (Altoum), Gianluca Breda (Mandarino)
Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Chailly
it is a measure of Lehnhoff's authority that you never question his choices...Chailly digs deep into Puccini's score...And the La Scala orchestra plays as if their life depended on it...Stemme... — More…
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mauro Peter (Belmonte), Lenneke Ruiten (Konstanze), Sabine Devieilhe (Blonde), Maximilian Schmitt (Pedrillo), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin)
Chorus of Teatro alla Scala & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta, Giorgio Strehler
Strehler/Testi handles the balance between the comic and the serious astutely…Ruiten’s superb performance – touchingly acted, fluently sung – makes you both believe and care…Devieilhe soars effortlessly... — More…
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Julia Kleiter (Agathe), Eva Liebau (Äennchen), Michael König (Max), Günther Groissböck (Kaspar), Michael Kraus (Ottokar), Frank van Hove (Kuno), Stephen Milling (Hermit), Till Von Orlowsky (Kilian)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Myung-Wha Chung, Matthias Hartmann
There are plenty of pyrotechnics here, and red demons writhing in the forest while Myung-Whun Chung fires up the La Scala orchestra…Groissböck is the star of the show, his muscular bass perfect... — More…
Offer, New Year’s Concert
Live recording from the Teatro La Fenice, 1 January 2013
Desirée Rancatore (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice & Members of the Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Roland Petit’s Notre Dame de Paris
Natalia Osipova (Esmeralda), Roberto Bolle (Quasimodo), Eris Nezha (Phoebus), Mick Zeni (Frollo)
Ballet Company & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Paul Connelly
Gala des Ètoiles
Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle, Massimo Murru, Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello, Mick Zeni, Maria Eichwald, Melissa Hamilton, Lucia Lacarra, Polina Semionova, Alina Somova, Maria Vinogradova, Marlon Dino, Leonid Sarafanov, Ivan Vasiliev
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, David Coleman
A Britten Collection
John Graham-Hall (Gustav von Aschenbach), Andrew Shore (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Gondolier/Barber/ Hotel Manager Player/Dionysus), Tim Mead (Apollo), Sam Zaldivar (Tadzio), Laura Caldow (The Polish Mother), Mia Angelina Mather/Xhuliana Shehu (Her Two Daughters), Joyce Henderson (The Governess), Marcio...
Nicola Vaccaj: Giulietta e Romeo
Leonor Bonilla (Giulietta), Raffaella Lupinacci (Romeo), Vasa Stajkic (Tebaldo), Christian Senn (Lorenzo), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Capellio), Paoletta Marrocu (Adelia)
Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Sesto Quatrini (conductor), Cecilia Ligorio (director)
Vaccaj reveals himself as more than a journeyman composer. Even if the score suggests Rossini…Vaccaj’s version of the story does hold your attention…The cast is serviceable…However it’s Raffaella... — More…
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Offer, Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
Its greatest asset is Daniel Barenboim's conducting, less vigorous perhaps than his Bayreuth cycle but generally more fluent and sweeping, with fewer abrupt tempo changes, and the La Scala orchestra... — More…
