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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella, Laurent Pelly
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict
RecommendedStéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice), Paul Appleby (Bénédict), Philippe Sly (Claudio), Sophie Karthäuser (Hero), Lionel Lhote (Somarone), Frédéric Caton (Don Pedro) & Katarina Bradić (Ursule)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Antonello Manacorda, Laurent Pelly (director)
This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today...The LPO rise magnificently to the... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Opera Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Chabrier: L'Etoile
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Lazuli), Christophe Mortagne (King Ouf), Hélène Guilmette (Princess Laoula), Jérôme Varnier (Siroco), Julie Boulianne (Aloès), François Piolino (Tapioca), Elliot Madore (Prince Hérisson de Porc-Epic)
Residentie Orkest The Hague, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Patrick Fournillier,...
The music is marvellous in its deft wit, lightness of touch and refined yet exquisite sensuality…d’Oustrac makes a terrific Lazuli, impulsive and witty, wonderfully seductive throughout the role’s... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019, Vidéo
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Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen Isabel Bayrakdarian (Bystrouška, the vixen), Lauren Curnow (Fox), Quinn Kelsey (Gamekeeper), Judith Christin (Gamekeeper´s wife, Owl)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seiji Ozawa (conductor) & Laurent Pelly (director)
Pelly's staging has plenty of charm but precious little of the dramatic depth that makes the opera such an extraordinary experience in a great production...Bayrakadrian is an affecting Vixen... — More…
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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges
Alain Vernhes, Martial Defontaine, François Le Roux, Serghei Khomov, Sandrine Piau, Anna Shafajinskaja & Sir Willard White
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Stéphane Denève (musical director) & Laurent Pelly (stage director)
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Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
Bryan Hymel (Robert), Patrizia Ciofi (Isabelle), John Relyea (Bertram), Marina Poplavskaya (Alice), Nicolas Courjal (Alberti), David Butt Philip (Master of Ceremonies), Pablo Bemsch (Second Chevalier/Herald), Ashley Riches (Prince of Granada), Jihoon Kim (Fourth Chevalier/Priest), Jean-Francois Borras...
Meyerbeer's vocal writing demands virtuoso singing, and receives that here. Bryan Hymel hurls himself unstintingly at the title role, impossible high notes and all. Marina Poplavskaya suggests... — More…
