DVD Video, Teatro alla Scala (opera company)
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
These DVDs of La Scala performances...are most notable for showcasing this conductor's supreme command of the epic lyricism that goes to the heart of the Wagner style...while Cassiers achieves... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Günther Groissböck (Sarastro), Saimir Pirgu (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Alex Esposito (Papageno) & Peter Bronder (Monostatos)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Roland...
This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD...[Esposito's Papageno] sung with glorious abandon, while his acting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, DVD Choice
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Special offer. New Year’s Concert
Live recording from the Teatro La Fenice, 1 January 2013
Desirée Rancatore (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice & Members of the Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Wagner: Siegfried
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2012
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Bronder (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Anna Larsson (Erda) & Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde)
Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Guy Cassiers (stage director)
Not only does Barenboim have complete control of the shape of Wagner's enormous acts, but there are enormous numbers of details, often witty and pertinent, and immense climaxes...[Stensvold]... —
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Coming soon. Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor
Lisette Oropesa (Lucia), Juan Diego Flórez (Edgardo), Boris Pinkhasovich (Enrico), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Arturo), Michele Pertusi (Raimondo Bidebent), Teatro Alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Yannis Kokkos
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Nicola Vaccaj: Giulietta e Romeo
Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor), Vasa Stajkic (bass), Paoletta Marrocu (soprano), Christian Senn (bass), Raffaella Lupinacci (mezzo-soprano), Leonor Bonilla (soprano)
Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Sesto Quatrini (conductor), Cecilia Ligorio (director)
Vaccaj reveals himself as more than a journeyman composer. Even if the score suggests Rossini…Vaccaj’s version of the story does hold your attention…The cast is serviceable…However it’s Raffaella... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Giorgio Zancanaro (Guido di Monforte), Enzo Capuano (Il sire di Bethune), Chris Merritt (Arrigo), Cheryl Studer (Elena)
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
it is Muti who, conducting tautly, ensures that this live performance carries high drama, with the orchestra too playing splendidly...the production is straightforward, with no crazy impositions... —
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Yusif Eyvazov (Andrea Chénier), Anna Netrebko (Maddalena de Coigny), Luca Salsi (Carlo Gérard), Annalisa Stroppa (Bersi), Mariana Pentcheva (La comtesse de Coigny)
Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Mario Martone
Netrebko’s Maddalena offers a blend of conviction and artifice. She’s distinguished in terms of her endless supply of lovely tone and her shaping of individual phrases, and on that level, rather... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mauro Peter (Belmonte), Lenneke Ruiten (Konstanze), Sabine Devieilhe (Blonde), Maximilian Schmitt (Pedrillo), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Chorus of Teatro alla Scala & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta, Giorgio Strehler
Strehler/Testi handles the balance between the comic and the serious astutely…Ruiten’s superb performance – touchingly acted, fluently sung – makes you both believe and care…Devieilhe soars... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...
[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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