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Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Offer,
Lully: Acis et Galatée Jean-Francois Lombard (Acis), Elena Harsanyi (Galatee), Valeria La Grotta (Diane), Luigi de Donato (Polipheme), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (L'Abondance), Markus van Arsdale (Comus/Tircis), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Sardelli (wielding an authentically Lullian staff for certain movements) propels a crisp account – the festival orchestra’s first with period instruments. The many dances show off a wonderful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Bruno de Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Francesca Longari (Lauretta), Anna Maria Chiuri (Zita), Dave Monaco (Rinuccio), Costanza Fontana (Nella), Antonio Garés (Gherardo), Giada Frasconi (La Ciesca), Francesco Venuti (Betto di Signa), Eugenio Di Lieto (Simone)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,...
Bruno de Simone is an amiable, bespectacled Schicchi who could win anyone around with his mellow voice and floral shirt. He sparks off nicely against Anna Maria Chiuri, an unusually young ‘vecchia’... — More…
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Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Krassimira Stoyanova (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jessica Pratt (Zerbinetta), AJ Glueckert (Bacchus), Markus Werba (Ein Musiklehrer), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti, Matthias Hartmann
Gatti conducts the score with evident affection, his account unrushed and expansive, moving in the Opera’s overture and achieving a noble sense of grandeur in the final minutes. — More…
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Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
María José Siri (Adriana Lecouvreur), Ksenia Dudnikova (Princess de Bouillon), Martin Muehle (Maurizio), Paolo Antognetti (Abbe de Chazeuil), Alessandro Spina (Prince de Bouillon), Nicola Alaimo (Michonnet), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Frederic Wake-Walker
Daniel Harding
The playing is admirably sensuous: Cilea knew his Wagner and Debussy, and Harding pointedly emphasises the debts, while also giving us plenty of Italianate passion and lyricism. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Puccini: Suor Angelica
María José Siri (Suor Angelica), Anna Maria Chiuri (La zia Principessa), Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli, Denis Krief
Krief’s austere, angular, copper-coloured set with barred windows provides an appropriately oppressive ambience. The lack of visual distraction ensures our attention is firmly focused where it... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Opera Choice
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New,
Busoni: Doktor Faust Dietrich Henschel (Doktor Faust), Daniel Brenna (Mephistopheles), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Wagner/Master of Ceremonies), Joseph Dahdahv (Duke of Parma), Olga Bezsmertna (Duchess of Parma)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cornelius Meister, Davide Livermore
Meister [acquits himself well], conducting by turns with sensitivity and vigour, and capturing effectively the haunting, mysterious sound world of the piece. The orchestral playing could be more... — More…
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Alfano: Risurrezione
Anne Sophie Duprels, Matthew Vickers, Leon Kim, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Francesco Lanzillotta, Rosetta Cucchi
The leading performances here, especially Duprels’s, are worth hearing and seeing, and the work, an archetypal example of full-on verismo, is an intriguing memory of one of opera’s historic formal... — More…
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Spontini: Fernando Cortez (La conquète du Mexique)
Dario Schmunck (Fernand Cortez), Alexia Voulgaridou (Amazily), Luca Lombardo (Télasco), Gianluca Margheri (Morales), David Ferri Durà (Alvar), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Jean-Luc Tingaud, Cecilia Ligorio
Tingaud knows how the music should go and obtains creditable results from serviceable forces…Schmunck’s Cortez looks martial and weathered—like an Aeneas before Venus’s rejuvenating makeover—and... — More…
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Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Isabel Bayrakdarian (Bystrouška, the vixen), Lauren Curnow (Fox), Quinn Kelsey (Gamekeeper), Judith Christin (Gamekeeper´s wife, Owl)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seiji Ozawa (conductor) & Laurent Pelly (director)
Pelly's staging has plenty of charm but precious little of the dramatic depth that makes the opera such an extraordinary experience in a great production...Bayrakadrian is an affecting Vixen... — More…
