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Verdi: La forza del destino
RecommendedAnja Harteros (Leonora), Jonas Kaufmann (Alvaro), Ludovic Tézier (Carlo), Nadia Krasteva (Preziosilla), Vitalij Kowaljow (Padre Guardiano), Renato Girolami (Fra Melitone)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Asher Fisch (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)
A large part of the characterisation comes from the sheer quality of Harteros’s singing, poised and perfectly shaped, with an impeccable sense of style, the voice itself slightly hazy in colour... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, DVD of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Opera
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Building A Library, February 2019, Also Recommended
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Verdi: La Traviata
Ermonela Jaho (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Placido Domingo (Germont)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus, Antonella Manacorda, Richard Eyre (director)
[Jaho's] tone is never what one could call ‘lustrous’, but she gets inside the character so thoroughly that one cannot help but suffer with her...and she battles so hard in Act 3 that one harbours... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Jaho)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Castronovo)
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedFrancesco Demuro (Il Duca), Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), Nino Machaidze (Gilda), Marco Potti (Sparafucile), Stefanie Iranyi (Maddalena), Roberto Tagliavini (Monterone), Orazio Mori (Marullo), Mauro Buffoli (Borsa)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Massimo Zanetti, Stefano Vizioli
Nucci simply owns the role of Rigoletto...a master-class in vocal acting...Machaidze is the very embodiment of Gilda. Her characterization is simply marvellous...[she] has a lovely full tone... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice (DVD/Blu-ray
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Christian Gerhaher (Simon Boccanegra), Jennifer Rowley (Amelia Boccanegra), Christof Fischesser (Jacopo Fiesco), Otar Jorjikia (Gabriele Adorno), Nicholas Brownlee (Paolo Albiani), Brent Michael Smith (Pietro)
Philharmonia Zurich, Chor der Oper Zürich, Fabio Luisi, Andreas Homoki
Though not on the face of it an obvious Verdian, Christian Gerhaher gives a winning performance as the eponymous Doge, bringing all the nuance to the text that we would expect from a master of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2021, Nominated - Video Performance
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Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto Luca Salsi (Rigoletto), Javier Camarena (Il Duca di Mantova), Enkeleda Kamani (Gilda), Alessio Cacciamani (Sparafucile), Caterina Piva (Maddalena)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Davide Livermore
Camarena, a star of the bel canto repertoire, eschews the ‘bravado’ approach taken by many tenors and brings a beautiful light, silvery tone to the role of the Duke. His voice pairs perfectly... — More…
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Bregenzer Festspiele
Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena)
Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl
The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: La forza del destino Saioa Hernández (Leonora), Roberto Aronica (Don Alvaro), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Don Carlo), Annalisa Stroppa (Preziosilla), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Padre Guardiano), Nicola Alaimo (Fra Melitone)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Carlus Padrissa (La Fura del Baus), Zubin Mehta
There are some excellent musical performances in this new production of La forza del destino, recorded last year at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, not least from the house orchestra,... — More…
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Arena di Verona Box Vol. 1
Maria Guleghina, Salvatore Licitra, Tamar Iveri, Nino Machaidze, Stefano Secco, Artur Rucinski, Jean-Francois Borras, Ketevan Kemoklidze
Franco Zeffirelli, Francesco Micheli, Omer Meir Wellber, Carlus Padrissa and Alex Olle
The strengths of this performance... are its musical standards, particularly the orchestra under the direction of Giuliano Carella whose dynamism and management of the sound picture is commendable,... — More…
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Verdi: Stiffelio
Luciano Ganci (Stiffelio), Maria Katzarava (Lina), Francesco Landolfi (Stankar), Giovanni Sebastiano Sala (Raffaele), Emanuele Cordaro (Jorg), Sofia Koberidze (Dorotea), Blagoj Nacoski (Federico)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Guillermo García Calvo, Graham Vick
Graham Vick’s production of Stiffelio is a triumph. The lines between the viewer and the viewed are blurred, challenging the comfortable assumption that music drama is something that happens... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Verdi: Falstaff
Michael Volle (Falstaff), Alfredo Daza (Ford), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Nadine Sierra (Nannetta), Daniela Barcellona (Mistress Quickly), Francesco Demuro (Fenton), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Mario Martone
Purists should look away now, but I found this production by Mario Martone tremendous fun...Volle inhabits the title role with absolute conviction: he is laugh-out-loud funny, his vocal delivery... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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