Blu-Ray Video, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
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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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Coming soon. Puccini: Tosca
Vanessa Goikoetxea (Tosca), Piero Pretti (Cavaradossi), Alexey Markov (Scarpia), Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti, Massimo Popolizio
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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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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
Meister [acquits himself well], conducting by turns with sensitivity and vigour, and capturing effectively the haunting, mysterious sound world of the piece. The orchestral playing could be... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, 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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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)
[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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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Opera Choice
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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera Collection, Vol. 1: Baroque
Charles Workman (tenor), Delphine Galou, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Jean-François Lombard, Elena Harsányi, Luigi de Donato, Carmela Remigio, Leonardo Cortellazzi, Francesca Aspromonte, Raffaele Pe, Rossana Bertini, Elena Bertuzzi, Candida Guida, Paolo Fanciullacci, Marco Scavazza, Mauro Borgioni,...
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Vivaldi: Il Farnace, RV711
Mary-Ellen Nesi (Farnace), Delphine Galou (Berenice), Sonia Prina (Tamiri), Loriana Castellano (Selinda), Emanuele D’Aguanno (Pompeo), Roberta Mameli (Gilade), Magnus Staveland (Aquilio), Giulia Nuti (Harpsichord), Simone Vallerotonda (Tiorba e chitarra barocca) & Michele Tazzari (Bass continuos)
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Donizetti: La Favorite
Veronica Simeoni (Leonor), Celso Albelo (Fernand) & Mattia Olivieri (Alphonse)
Valdes’s direction is pretty static, betraying a lack of experience staging opera, but there are some reliable vocal performances to enjoy. Mezzo Veronica Simeoni copes well with her key aria... — More…
