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Verdi: Rigoletto Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto), Javier Camarena (Duke of Mantua), Desirée Rancatore (Gilda), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Maddalena), Ante Jerkunica (Sparafucile)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Riccardo Frizza, Monique Wagemakers
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto), Lisette Oropesa (Gilda), Liparit Avetisyan (Il Duca), Ramonza Zaharia (Maddalena), Brindley Sherratt (Sparafucile), Eric Greene (Monterone)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Oliver Mears
Vocal and musical standards are high. From the doom-laden opening bars of the prelude onwards, Antonio Pappano’s conducting is masterly, offering one of the best accounts available. Carlos Álvarez... — More…
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedAleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Àlvarez (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Antonello Ceron (Roderigo), Mikhail Petrenko (Lodovico)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
Otello is played by Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is tremendous in all respects. His Desdemona is the lovely Marina Poplavskaya...an expert in suffering. Carlos Àlvarez's Iago and Stephen Costello's... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2012, First Choice (DVD & Blu-ray)
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
María José Siri (Butterfly), Bryan Hymel (Pinkerton), Carlos Álvarez (Sharpless), Annalisa Stroppa (Suzuki)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
There are undoubtedly passages of juvenile stylistic autopilot here that Puccini was right to cut…But it’s genuinely fascinating to hear what the first-night audience would have heard…The superb... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Arena Di Verona
Luca Salsi (baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Yusif Eyvazov, Dolora Zajick, Carlos Álvarez (baritone), Alex Esposito, Maria Jose Siri, Irina Lungu, Rafal Siwek, Saimir Pirgu (tenor), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Anna, Pirozzi, Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Marko Mimica, Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the Arena...
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Puccini: Tosca
Karine Babajanyan (Tosca), Piotr Beczala (Cavaradossi), Carlos Álvarez (Scarpia), Wiener Staatsoper, Marco Armiliato, Margarethe Wallmann
Álvarez is an old hand at curdling the blood, and Cavaradossi’s torture is repellent…[Babajanyan's] plaintive lyric voice is appealing but she rarely unleashes her stage tigress even when she... — More…
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Carlos Álvarez (Don Carlo), Nina Stemme (Leonora), Salvatore Licitra (Don Alvaro), Nadia Krasteva (Preziosilla), Alastair Miles (Padre Guardiano), Fra Melitone (Tiziano Bracci), Elisabeta Marin (Curra)
Wiener Staatsoper, Zubin Mehta, David Pountney
Tenor Salvatore Licitra as Don Alvaro in La forza del destino, caught in Vienna 10 years ago- his singing is admirably clean, his tone noble. Alongside him, Nina Stemme is a gutsy Leonora, assiduously... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Irina Lungu (Donna Anna), Maria José Siri (Donna Elvira), Saimir Pirgu (Don Ottavio), Natalia Roman (Zerlina), Christian Senn (Masetto), Rafał Siwek (Il Commendatore)
Arena di Verona, Stefano Montanari, Franco Zeffirelli
They really don’t make them like this any more…The production is lavish and highly populated, 18th-century Seville in all its Baroque glory...Although the playing of the Arena di Verona Orchestra... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Carlos Álvarez, Diana Damrau, Golda Schultz, Markus Werba, Marianne Crébassa, Anna Maria Chiuri
Teatro alla Scala, Franz Welser-Möst
At first the orchestra sounds a little stiff, but as the night goes on Welser-Möst unbends and the combination of his Austrian grace and the Italian orchestra’s warmth is appealing…Crebassa’s... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Lorenzo Regazzo (Leporello), María Bayo (Donna Anna), José Bros (Don Ottavio), Sonia Ganassi (Donna Elvira), José Antonio López (Masetto), María José Moreno (Zerlina), Alfred Reiter (Commendatore)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra...
Updating is more or less de rigueur in today's operatic circles and Madrid once again comes up with the goods in a wholly plausible re-siting of Giovanni to 1940s Spain. The transfer of the various... — More…
