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Verdi: Aida
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Anja Harteros (Aida), Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris), Ludovic Tezier (Amonasro), Erwin Schrott (Ramfis), Marco Spotti (Il Re d'Egitto), Paolo Fanale (Un Messaggero), Eleonora Buratto (Sacerdotessa)
Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma; Coro dell'Accademia...
Anja Harteros can boast both the high-octane tone and the necessary level of dramatic expression to make Aida credibly three dimensional…[Ekaterina Semenchuk makes] many subtle observations pertinent... — More…
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Verdi: Requiem
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Anja Harteros (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Rolando Villazon (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's conducting maintains a firm control of his forces, showing a sense of drama that includes an awareness of the importance of some crucial moments of silence. Pappano's soloists are... — More…
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Paris, mon amour
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Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Etienne Dupuis (baritone), Celso Albelo (tenor)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Frederic Chaslin
gleaming, virtuoso singing. — More…
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Joseph Calleja - Verdi
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Joseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ramón Tebar
For the love duet from Otello…he sounds marvellously virile and tireless…Calleja has not yet learnt the required inwardness for Otello’s two great monologues, but he has the voice for all these... — More…
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New, Messa Per Rossini
María José Siri (soprano), Veronica Simeoni (mezzo), Giorgio Berrugi (tenor), Simone Piazzola (baritone), Riccardo Zanellato (bass); Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Not every contribution to this multi-authored memorial to Rossini may be in the same league as Verdi’s Libera me (later upcycled for his own Requiem), but Chailly and his La Scala forces treat... — More…
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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Piero Cappuccilli (Boccanegra), Mirella Freni (Amelia/Maria), José van Dam (Paolo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Jacopo Fiesco), José Carreras (Gabriele)
La Scala Chorus & Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This famous recording has become a classic, a studio performance following a series of performances at La Scala in the Strehler staging. The close, slightly claustrophobic recording exactly mirrors... — More…
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Verdi: La Traviata
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Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Frank Lopardo (Alfredo), Leo Nucci (Giorgio Germont), Leah-Marian Jones (Flora), Gillian Knight (Annina), Robin Leggate (Gastone), Mark Beesley (Dottore Grenvil), Richard Van Allan (Baron Douphol), Roderick Earle (Marchese d'Obigny)
Chorus & Orchestra of Royal...
For Angela Gheorghiu, Violetta was the right role at the right time. The whole drama is there in her voice, every expression in the eyes and beat of the heart reflected in the way she shapes... — More…
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Verdi: Rigoletto
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Rigoletto), Nadine Sierra (Gilda), Francesco Demuro (Il Duca), Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile), Oksana Volkova (Maddalena)
Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, Men of the Kaunas State Choir, Constantine Orbelian
This recording, made in July 2016, shows [Hvorostovsky] at the height of his powers in the title role, revealing the full range of Rigoletto’s qualities…with all the intensity Verdi required…The... — More…
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Verdi: Otello
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Simon O’Neill (Otello), Gerald Finley (Iago), Anne Schwanewilms (Desdemona), Allan Clayton (Cassio), Ben Johnson (Roderigo), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Lodovico), Matthew Rose (Montano), Lukas Jakobski (Herald) & Eufemia Tufano (Emilia)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
everything contributes to accentuating extremes: Colin Davis gets the LSO, in shattering form, to play chords like cannon shots...The two male leads are superb: Simon O'Neill is the most complete... — More…
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The French items suit her slightly cool voice better. There’s a classy, moving grandeur to Didon’s ‘Adieu, fière cité’, and a lovely wistfulness to her Mignon…in short, here’s a beautifully regulated... — More…
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