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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
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Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie...
David McVicar's 2005 staging, revived the following summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was adored by the Glyndebourne public. Chief cause of their... — More…
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Handel: Alcina & Tamerlano
Sandrine Piau (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Angelique Noldus (Bradamante), Sabina Puertolas (Morgana), Chloe Briot (Oberto), Daniel Behle (Oronte), Giovanni Furlanetto (Melisso), Edouard Higuet (Astolfo), Sophie Karthäuser (Asteria), Ann Hallenberg (Irene), Delphine Galou (Andronico), Christophe...
The Alcina cast is led by Sandrine Piau’s involving enchantress, who keeps Maite Beaumont’s outstanding Ruggiero in thrall…[Tamerlano is] beautifully sung by Christophe Dumaux…Karthäuser is spirited... — More…
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Offer, Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia HWV22
Matthias Rexrodt (Admeto), Romelia Lichtenstein (Alceste), Mechthild Bach (Antigona), Tim Mead (Trasimede), Raimund Nolte (Ercole), Melanie Hirsch (Orindo) & Gerd Vogel (Meraspe)
Handelfestspielorchester Halle, Howard Arman (conductor) & Axel Köhler (stage director)
Blu-ray + 2 DVD Videos + CD
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Handel: Rodelinda
Jeanine de Bique (Rodelinda), Tim Mead (Bertarido), Benjamin Hulett (Grimoaldo), Avery Amereau (Eduige), Jakub Józef Orliński (Unulfo), Andrea Mastroni (Garibaldo), Aminata Diouaré (Flavio, the child)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Handel Box Set
Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno), Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch...
Offer, Handel: Orlando
Marijana Mijanovic (Orlando), Martina Janková (Angelica), Katharina Peetz (Medoro), Christina Clark (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)
Orchestra “La Scintilla” of The Zurich Opera, William Christie
Handel: Acis and Galatea
Danielle de Niese (Galatea), Charles Workman (Acis), Matthew Rose (Polyphemus), Paul Agnew (Damon), Ji-Min Park (Corydon), Lauren Cuthbertson (Galatea - dancer), Edward Watson (Acis - dancer), Steven McRae (Damon - dancer), Eric Underwood (Polyphemus - dancer), Paul Kay (Coridon - dancer)
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Vocally, the star of the show is Matthew Rose, whose pitch-perfect Polyphemus conveys the bruised vulnerability of the inarticulate and ugly...The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment play suavely,... — More…
Handel/Leo: Rinaldo
Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Loriana Castellano (Almirena), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo), Francesca Ascioti (Argante), Ana Victória Pitts (A Christian Magician), Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Giorgio Sangati (director)
Sangati’s staging, mixing (vaguely) 18th-century costumes, Venice carnival masks and modernist camp, is unpretentious and uncluttered. The substitute arias, often short-breathed, cannot rival... — More…
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Sally Matthews (soprano), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor) & Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin & Knabenchor des Staats- und Domchores Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
Superlative soloists add lustre to Orff's barbaric blockbuster in this Berlin New Year's Eve concert. Oddly coarse images: the musicians look as if they've been roasting under sun lamps. — More…
