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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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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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Gaetano Donizetti: Linda Di Chamounix Jessica Pratt (Linda), Teresa Iervolino (Pierotto), Francesco Demuro (Carlo), Vittorio Prato (Antonio), Marina De Liso (Maddalena), Fabio Capitanucci (Il Marchese di Boisfleury), Michele Pertusi (Il Prefetto), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Michele Gamba
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Donizetti: Poliuto
RecommendedMichael Fabiano (Poliuto), Ana Maria Martinez (Paolina), Igor Golovatenko (Severo), Matthew Rose (Callistene), Timothy Robinson (Felice) & Emanuele D’Aguanno (Nearco)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Mazzola (conductor) & Mariame Clément (stage director)
Fabiano [is] febrile and fanatical as the eponymous Christian martyr...Clėment’s loosely twentieth-century setting has overtones of Mussolini’s Italy and 1990s Sarajevo (so don’t expect any lions... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2016
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Donizetti: Belisario Roberto Frontali (Belisario), Simon Lim (Giustiniano), Carmela Remigio (Antonina), Annalisa Stroppa (Irene), Celso Albelo (Alamiro), Anaïs Mejías (Eudora), Klodjan Kacani (Eutropio), Stefano Gentili (Eusebio), Matteo Castrignano (Ottario), Orchestra e Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza
The principals are, without exception, first-rate. Roberto Frontali in the title role has a voice that speaks profoundly of authority and wisdom...Supporting roles, too, are finely sung, particularly... — More…
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Diana Damrau (Lucia), Charles Castronovo (Edgardo), Ludovic Tézier (Enrico), Taylor Stayton (Arturo), Kwangchul Youn (Raimondo), Rachael Lloyd (Alisa), Peter Hoare (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren, Katie Mitchell (dir.)
The staging is over-stuffed but it is not stupid or careless…Minute alterations in the textures of Donizetti’s orchestration are brilliantly clear. Were you not already persuaded that the opera... — More…
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Gaetano Donizetti: La Fille Du Régiment Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Chorus of Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Adriana Bignagni Lesca, Paolo Bordogna, John Osborn, Sara Blanch, Cristina Bugatty, Haris Andrianos, Adolfo Corrado, Andrea Civetta, Alessandro Zillioli, Ernesto López Maturell, Michele Spotti
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Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
Carmela Remigio (Lucrezia), Marko Mimica (Alfonso), Xabier Anduaga (Gennaro), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Orsini)
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Andrea Bernard, Riccardo Frizza
All three principals are firstrate. Carmela Remigio (Lucrezia) combines vocal sweetness with dramatic muscle. Marko Mimica is a casual psychopath in a leather coat and buzz cut. And the young... — More…
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Donizetti: Anna Bolena
Anna Netrebko (Anna Bolena), Elina Garanca (Giovanna Seymour), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Enrico), Francesco Meli (Percy), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Lord Rochefort), Elisabeth Kulman (Smeton), Peter Jelosits (Hervey)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Evelino Pidò
It's no accident that Netrebko's better forays into bel canto have come with Garanca by her side, inspiring her to some lovely singing. Their voices blend beautifully...I find her a welcome counterpoint... — More…
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Rolando Villazón (Nemorino), Anna Netrebko (Adina), Leo Nucci (Belcore), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Dulcamara), Inna Los (Giannetta)
Orchester & Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Alfred Eschwé
