DVD Video, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
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Special offer. 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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special 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... —
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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’... —
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Opera Choice
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Special offer. 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. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. 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... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Michael Volle (baritone), Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta
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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Vanessa Goikoetxea (Tosca), Piero Pretti (Cavaradossi), Alexey Markov (Scarpia)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti, Massimo Popolizio
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Special offer. Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Thomas Gazheli (The Dutchman), Marjorie Owens (Senta), Mikhail Petrenko (Daland), Bernhard Berchtold (Erik), Annette Jahns (Mary), Timothy Oliver (Steerman), Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Fabio Luisi, Paul Curran
The production’s first great asset is Fabio Luisi. I suppose any conductor worth his salt is able to whip up a storm in the sea scenes, but Luisi proves equally adept at sustaining the rapt... —
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Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino
Saioa Hernández (Leonora), Roberto Aronica (Don Alvaro), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Don Carlo), Annalisa Stroppa (Preziosilla), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Padre Guardiano), Nicola Alaimo (Fra Melitone)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Carlus Padrissa (La Fura del Baus), Zubin Mehta
There are some excellent musical performances in this new production of La forza del destino, recorded last year at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, not least from the house orchestra,... —
