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Puccini: La Bohème
Recommended
Angela Gheorghiu (Mimi), Ramón Vargas (Rodolfo), Ludovic Tézier (Marcello), Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta), Oren Gradus (Colline), Quinn Kelsey (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro), Meredith Derr (Parpignol), Robert Maher (Sergente dei doganieri), Richard Pearson (Un doganiere)
The Metropolitan...
…the spectacular Zeffirelli staging, now rather showing its age. It still makes a good frame… for Ramón Vargas's engaging Rodolfo, sung with ardour, and Gheorghiu's fine-toned but rather grand... — More…
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Offer, Puccini: Turandot
Iréne Theorin (Turandot), Gregory Kunde (Calaf), Yolanda Auyanet (Liù), Andrea Mastroni (Timur), Teatro Real, Nicola Luisotti, Robert Wilson
Boito: Mefistofele
Ildar Abdrazakov, Ramón Vargas, Patricia Racette, Erin Johnson, Chuanyue Wang
San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Dance Corps, Nicola Luisotti
Carsen's cast is fine, centred on the outsize performance of Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role. He brings sex appeal to Satan, his authentic Russian bass sounding marvellous in the blatant vulgarity... — More…
Verdi: Nabucco
Plácido Domingo (Nabucco), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Andrea Caré (Ismaele), Marianna Pizzolato (Fenena) & Vitalij Kowaljow (Zaccaria)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Nicola Luisotti (conductor) & Daniele Abbado (director)
Luisotti is able to shape the fluency that Antonio Pappano's orchestra and Renato Balsadonna's chorus have acquired in Verdi into a notably well-paced reading...This Sony Classical release offers... — More…
Offer, Strauss, R: Salome
Erika Sunnegårdh (Salome), Mark S. Doss (Jochanaan), Robert Brubaker (Herodes) & Dalia Schaechter (Herodias)
Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Nicola Luisotti (conductor) & Gabriele Lavia (stage director)
Sunnegårdh is an experienced and impressive Salome, and she stays the course admirably here, cutting a svelte figure onstage; her dance, complete with full striptease, is unusually convincing...Mark... — More…
Best of Verdi Opera Choruses
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo, Nicola Luisotti, Yuri Temirkanov, Boris Brott
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Elizabeth Watts (Zerlina) & Dawid Kimberg (Masetto)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera...
Holten shows us Giovanni as a man older than usual, lonely, perhaps trying to stave off his fear of death with each new seduction...Some of the singing would not pass muster on CD. But the acting... — More…
Verdi: I Masnadieri
Giacomo Prestia (Massimiliano), Aquiles Machado (Carlo), Artur Ruciński (Francesco), Lucrecia Garcia (Amalia), Walter Omaggio (Arminio), Dario Russo (Moser) & Massimiliano Chiarolla (Rolla)
San Carlo Theatre Ballet School & San Carlo Theater Chorus and Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti
Apart from Rucinski's villain, the prime reason for seeing this Masnadieri is the terrific way Nicola Luisotti has with Verdi's score. He conducts a vibrant account and brings out the contrasts... — More…
Mozart: The Da Ponte Operas
Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio), Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore),...
Verdi: The Operas Vol. 2, 1847-1853
Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Sylvie Valayre (Lady Macbeth), Enrico Iori (Banco), Roberto Iuliano (Macduff), Tiziana Tramonti (Dama), Nicola Pascoli (Malcolm), Enrico Turco (Il Medico), Davide Ronzoni (L'araldo), Riccardo di Stefani (Un Domestico), Noris Borgogelli (Il Sicario), Giacomo Prestia (Massimiliano),...
