Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Michele Pertusi (bass-baritone)
Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Juan Diego Flórez (Comte Ory), Diana Damrau (Comtesse Adèle), Joyce DiDonato (Isolier), Susanne Resmark (Ragonde), Michele Pertusi (Tutor), Stéphane Degout (Raimbaud)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Maurizio Benini
Sher's production is wise, witty and completely faithful to the spirit of the piece...Damrau is peerless, giving a bravura comic performance made from winks and nudges, heavy theatrical sighing... — More…
Verdi: Don Carlo
Michele Pertusi (Philip II), José Bros (Don Carlo), Vladimir Stoyanov (Rodrigo), Ievgen Orlov (The Great Inquisitor), Simon Lim (A monk), Serena Farnocchia (Elisabetta), Marianne Cornetti (Eboli), Lavinia Bini (Tebaldo)
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Teatro Regio di Parma, Daniel Oren
Lievi’s production charts a sensible course between period costumes and minimalist sets…The cast is led by a bright, tireless Don Carlo from José Bros, though one wishes he would vary his volume... — More…
Rossini: La gazza ladra
Paolo Bordogna (Fabrizio), Dmitry Korchak (Giannetto), Mariola Cantarero (Ninetta), Alex Esposito (Fernando), Kleopatra Papatheologou (Lucia), Michele Pertusi (Gottardo), Manuela Custer (Pippo), Stefan Cifolelli (Isacco)
Orchestra Haydn Di Bolzano e Trento, Lü Jia, Damiano Michieletto
[Korchak is] movie-star handsome and offer[s] gorgeous tone, elegant style and as positive a dramatic portrayal as Messrs Rossini and Michieletto allow...[Pertusi's] Gottardo justifies the entire... — More…
Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Roberto de Biasio (Arvino), Michele Pertusi (Pagano), Cristina Giannelli (Viclinda), Dimitra Theodossiou (Giselda), Roberto Tagliavini (Pirro), Valdis Jansons (Acciano), Francesco Meli (Oronte), Daniela Pini (Sofia)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Daniele Callegari
Pugelli’s production reveals a series of beautiful backdrops and the costumes are a hippy’s tie-die heaven, albeit rather more chic... The singing is forthright. Michele Pertusi’s bass provides... — More…
Jonas Kaufmann
Emily Magee (Tosca), Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi), Thomas Hampson (Scarpia), Valeriy Murga (Angelotti), Giuseppe Scorsin (Sagristano), Vesselina Kasarova (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Isabel Rey (Micaela), Michele Pertusi (Escamillo), Jonas Kaufmann (Faust), René Pape (Méphistophélès), Marina...
Jonas Kaufmann brought the house down … a personal triumph — More…
Offer, Verdi: The Operas Vol. 1, 1839-1846
Mariana Pentcheva (Cuniza), Fabio Sartori (Riccardo), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Oberto), Francesca Sassu (Leonora), Giorgia Bertagni (Imelda), Guido Loconsolo (Il Cavaliere di Belfiore), Andrea Porta (Il Barone di Kelbar), Anna Caterina Antonacci (La Marchesa del Poggio), Alessandra Marianelli (Giulietta...