Blu-Ray Video, Sonia Prina (contralto)
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Special offer. 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)
Orchestra...
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Special offer. Handel: Rinaldo
Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch (Almirena), Brenda Rae (Armida), Luca Pisaroni (Argante) & William Towers (A Christian Magician)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robert Carsen (Stage Director) & Ottavio Dantone (Conductor)
Despite major reservations about the concept, it's impossible to deny the effectiveness of the staging...All the individual performances are well-acted; the Blu-ray edition providing added detail.... —
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Antonio Vivaldi: Il Bajazet
Renato Dolcini (baritone), Sonia Prina (contralto), Loriana Castellano (mezzo-soprano), Raffaele Pe, Lucia Cirillo (mezzo-soprano), Valeria La Grotta (soprano), Giovanni Imbroglia, Marco Mantovani (piano), Alberto Busettini (harpsichord), Nicola Lamon (harpsichord), Francesco Ferrarini (cello), Fabio...
Pé is magnificent as Andronico with impeccable legato and a velvety lower register...Sardelli conducting a Baroque orchestra shorn of theorboes and trimmed of woodwinds but with fizzing violins... —
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso, RV728
Sonia Prina (Orlando), Michela Antenucci (Angelica), Lucia Cirillo (Alcina), Loriana Castellano (Bradamante), Konstantin Derri (Medoro), Luigi Schifano (Ruggiero), Riccardo Novaro (Astolfo)
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Fabio Ceresa
If you like your Baroque opera understated or postmodern (or uncut) then Fabio Ceresa’s Orlando furioso is not for you. Taking Vivaldi’s opera absolutely at face value, the director delivers... —
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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera Collection, Vol. 1: Baroque
Charles Workman (tenor), Delphine Galou (contralto), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor), Jean-François Lombard, Elena Harsányi, Luigi de Donato, Carmela Remigio (soprano), Leonardo Cortellazzi, Francesca Aspromonte, Raffaele Pe, Rossana Bertini, Elena Bertuzzi, Candida Guida, Paolo Fanciullacci, Marco...
