Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
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Busoni: Doktor Faust Dietrich Henschel (Doktor Faust), Daniel Brenna (Mephistopheles), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Wagner/Master of Ceremonies), Joseph Dahdahv (Duke of Parma), Olga Bezsmertna (Duchess of Parma)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cornelius Meister, Davide Livermore
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Lully: Acis et Galatée Jean-Francois Lombard (Acis), Elena Harsanyi (Galatee), Valeria La Grotta (Diane), Luigi de Donato (Polipheme), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (L'Abondance), Markus van Arsdale (Comus/Tircis), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Sardelli (wielding an authentically Lullian staff for certain movements) propels a crisp account – the festival orchestra’s first with period instruments. The many dances show off a wonderful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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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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Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
María José Siri (Adriana Lecouvreur), Ksenia Dudnikova (Princess de Bouillon), Martin Muehle (Maurizio), Paolo Antognetti (Abbe de Chazeuil), Alessandro Spina (Prince de Bouillon), Nicola Alaimo (Michonnet), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Frederic Wake-Walker
Daniel Harding
The playing is admirably sensuous: Cilea knew his Wagner and Debussy, and Harding pointedly emphasises the debts, while also giving us plenty of Italianate passion and lyricism. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Krassimira Stoyanova (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jessica Pratt (Zerbinetta), AJ Glueckert (Bacchus), Markus Werba (Ein Musiklehrer), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti, Matthias Hartmann
Gatti conducts the score with evident affection, his account unrushed and expansive, moving in the Opera’s overture and achieving a noble sense of grandeur in the final minutes. — More…
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Verdi: Ernani
Francesco Meli (Ernani), Roberto Frontali (Don Carlo), Vitalij Kowaljow (Don Ruy Gomez da Silva), María José Siri (Elvira), Xenia Tziouvaras (Giovanna), Joseph Dahdah (Don Riccardo), Davide Piva (Jago), Lorenzo Fratini, Orchestra and Chorus Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Leo Muscato, James Conlon
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Puccini: Suor Angelica
María José Siri (Suor Angelica), Anna Maria Chiuri (La zia Principessa), Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli, Denis Krief
Krief’s austere, angular, copper-coloured set with barred windows provides an appropriately oppressive ambience. The lack of visual distraction ensures our attention is firmly focused where it... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Opera Choice
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Katerina Izmailova), Vladimir Vaneev (Boris Izmailov), Vsevolod Grivnov (Zinoviy Izmailov), Sergej Kunaev (Sergei), Nanà Miriani (Aksinya), Natascha Petrinsky (Sonetka)
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon (conductor) & Lev Dodin (director)
James Conlon… has conducted Shostakovich's masterpiece on both continents… There is plenty of passion in the pit. …New Orleans-raised Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet proves a powerful if one-dimensional... — More…
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Opera, March 2010, Recording of the Month
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Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 1-9
Mandy Fredrich (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), AJ Glueckert (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Orchestra e Coro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta
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Offenbach: Un mari à la porte
Patrizio La Placa (Henri Martel), Francesca Benitez (Rosita), Matteo Mezzaro (Florestan Ducroquet) & Marina Ogii (Suzanne)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli
it’s fun and given a suitably zingy production … best of all is Francesca Benitez … she has the big hit number, a Valse Tyrolienne, one of Offenbach’s frothiest coloratura showpieces, and she... — More…
