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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
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Natalie 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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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
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Joyce 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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Donizetti: Enrico di Borgogna
Anna Bonitatibus, Sonia Ganassi
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi
[De Marchi] He actually conducts the whole performance with vigor and with elegance, bringing out the sparkling humor where needed. Perhaps the high point of this first work by Donizetti is the... — More…
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Anna Netrebko (Lucia), Piotr Beczala (Edgardo), Mariusz Kwiecien (Enrico), Colin Lee (Arturo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Raimondo)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, Marco Armiliato (conductor) & Mary Zimmerman (director)
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…
Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth
Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), Carmela Remigio (Amelia), Stefan Pop (Warney), Xabier Anduaga (Leicester), Dario Russo (Lambourne) & Federica Vitali (Fanny)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza (conductor) & Maria Pilar Pérez Aspa (director)
Jessica Pratt’s Elizabeth takes a while to hit form, while as her rival Amelia Carmela Remigio is both physically and vocally expressive, offering liquid tone. As the two-timing Earl of Leicester,... — More…
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
Renée Fleming (Lucrezia), Michael Fabiano (Gennaro), Elizabeth DeShong (Orsini), Vitalij Kowaljow (Don Alfonso)
San Francisco Opera, Riccardo Frizza
Fleming seems fired by the theatricality of a reviled female character who commands every dramatic situation she encounters...The main reservation is her calculation...DeShong is a powerful vocal... — More…
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
Edita Gruberova (Lucrezia), Pavol Breslik (Gennaro), Franco Vassallo (Don Alfonso), Alice Coote (Maffio Orsini), Bruno Ribeiro (Jeppo Liverotto), Christian Rieger (Don Aposto Gazella)
Chor und Extrachor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy
Christof Loy's serious contemporary production has simple modern clothes… and little scenery… Entries, exits and who is onstage are treated in deconstructionist fashion. This is exciting in Act... — More…
Maria Callas – Live
Remastered Recordings 1949–1964
Maria Callas (soprano), Gino Bechi (Nabucco), Maria Callas (Abigaille), Amalia Pini (Fenena), Gino Sinimberghi (Ismaele), Iginio Riccò (Gran Sacerdote), Luciano della Pergola (Abdallo), Silvana Tenti (Anna), Rolando Panerai (Amfortas), Africo Baldelli (Parsifal), Maria Callas (Kundry), Boris Christoff...
Perhaps the most thrilling of all the sets is the performance from Berlin of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor…The encored Sextet is phenomenal, the Mad Scene even more so…Callas was a passionate... — More…
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Fiorenza Cedolins (Maria Stuarda), Jose Bros (Leicester), Mirco Palazzi (Talbot), Pervin Chakar (Anna), Marco Caria (Cecil)
Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, Fabrizo Maria Carminati
Maestro Carminati looks an amiable, gentle soul as he enters the pit but he unleashes a firestorm of tension and passion in the big duets and his judicious tempi bind Donizetti's not-so-easy... — More…
