Blu-Ray Video, Gounod (composer)
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New. Opéra Comique Collection, Vol. 2
Carmen - Hamlet - Fortunio - La nonne sanglante -Lakmé
Opéra Comique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Louis Langrée, Laurence Equilbey, Raphaël Pichon
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Gounod: Faust
Michael Fabiano (Faust), Erwin Schrott (Mephistopheles), Irina Lungu (Marguerite)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Dan Ettinger, David McVicar
This is a top-flight cast. In a sensitive, intelligent and finely articulated interpretation, Michael Fabiano humanises the doddering old philosopher...Stealing a number of scenes is Erwin Schrott,... —
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Gounod: Mireille
Inva Mula (Mireille), Charles Castronovo (Vincent), Opéra national de Paris, Marc Minkowski, Nicolas Joel
Mula attacks the testing title-role with spirit and agility, just lacking a lick of tenderness...The handsome, unhappy Castronovo is in wonderful voice as Vincent. —
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Gounod: Faust
Piotr Beczala (Faust), Luca Pisaroni (Méphistophélès), Marina Rebeka (Marguerite), Stéphane Degout (Valentin), Isaac Galán (Wagner), Serena Malfi (Siebel), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Marthe)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real Madrid, Dan Ettinger, Àlex Ollé
The most stylish and idiomatic singing comes from Stéphane Degout's Valentin, brimming with conviction whatever this show throws at him. —
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette); Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, sung by Kühn’s Mixed Choir, Prague, Anton Guadagno (conductor) & Barbara Willis Sweete (director)
Romeo was Roberto Alagna’s finest role in the first half of his career, and the audio-visual documentation of his interpretation makes it entirely clear why he succeeded in winning over both... —
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Gounod: La Nonne sanglante
Michael Spyres (Rodolphe), Vannina Santoni (Agnès), Marion Lebègue (La Nonne), André Heyboer (Luddorf), Jodie Devos (Arthur/Urbain), Jean Teitgen (Pierre l’Ermite), Luc Bertin-Hugault (Le baron de Moldaw), Enguerrand De Hys (Fritz, Veilleur de nuit), Olivia Doray (Anna)
Insula Orchestra, accentus,...
Every singer except Michael Spyres is French, and his pronunciation is quite good as well. Better yet, every single voice, down to the smallest comprimario roles, is a pleasure to hear: clear,... —
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Nino Machaidze (Juliette), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Stephano), Cristina Melis (Gertrude), Stefano Secco (Roméo), Jean-François Borras (Tybalt), Paolo Antognetti (Benvolio), Artur Rucinski (Mercutio), Nicolo Ceriani (Paris)
Arena di Verona, Fabio Mastrangelo, Francesco Micheli
[Machaidze] seems to be the Juliette of choice today and this video makes clear why that's the case: lovely singing and a demeanour that manages to be sensual and innocent at once. Secco's voice... —
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Gounod: Roméo and Juliette
Aida Garifullina (Juliette), Saimir Pirgu (Romeo), David Alegret (Tybalt), Tara Erraught (Stephano), Gabriel Bermudez (Mercutio), Chorus of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Stephen Lawless, Josep Pons
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Gounod: Faust
Charles Castronovo (Faust), Ildar Abdrazakov (Méphistophélès), Irina Lungu (Marguerite), Vasilij Ladjuk (Valentin), Samantha Korbey (Marthe), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Siebel), Paolo Maria Orecchia (Wagner)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda does a superb job in highlighting the dramatic sweep as well as the refined detail of Gounod’s most popular score, drawing taut playing from the theatre’s orchestra…there’s... —
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Gala Mariinsky II
Live recording from Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, May 2, 2013
Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Olga Borodina, Plácido Domingo, Alexei Markov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Ildar Abdrazakov, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Sergei Semishkur (Opera), Olga Esina, Kim Kimin, Anastasia Kolegova, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alexander Sergeyev, Vladimir Shklyarov,...
The ballet excerpts highlight stunning technical control over bravura…the basses generally win the day, Mikhail Petrenko offering a sonorous ‘Ey Ukhnem!’ and Evgeny Nikitin an imposing Boris... —
