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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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Gaetano Donizetti: Linda Di Chamounix Jessica Pratt (Linda), Teresa Iervolino (Pierotto), Francesco Demuro (Carlo), Vittorio Prato (Antonio), Marina De Liso (Maddalena), Fabio Capitanucci (Il Marchese di Boisfleury), Michele Pertusi (Il Prefetto), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Michele Gamba
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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Katerina Izmailova), Vladimir Vaneev (Boris Izmailov), Vsevolod Grivnov (Zinoviy Izmailov), Sergej Kunaev (Sergei), Nanà Miriani (Aksinya), Natascha Petrinsky (Sonetka)
Orchestra and Chorus of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon (conductor) & Lev Dodin (director)
…James Conlon… has conducted Shostakovich's masterpiece on both continents… There is plenty of passion in the pit. …New Orleans-raised Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet proves a powerful if one-dimensional... — More…
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Opera, March 2010, Recording 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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Handel: Rinaldo Raffaele Pe (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Goffredo), Francesca Aspromonte (Almirena), Andrea Patucelli (Argante)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Federico Maria Sardelli, Pier Luigi Pizzi
Pe sings with agility, finesse and pathos as Rinaldo’s music requires…The Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino play with a sure sense of crisply detailed style. — More…
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Verdi: Falstaff Ruggero Raimondi (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Laura Polverelli (Meg Page), Elena Zilio (Mistress Quickly), Mariola Cantarero (Nannetta), Manuel Lanza (Ford), Daniil Shtoda (Fenton); Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta, & Luca Ronconi (dir.)
Mehta is vastly experienced and in his seeming Indian summer allows the music to flow and flourish. I guess we might not get many more Falstaffs from Raimondi. If you are a fan you can do a lot... — More…
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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,... — More…
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Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto Luca Salsi (Rigoletto), Javier Camarena (Il Duca di Mantova), Enkeleda Kamani (Gilda), Alessio Cacciamani (Sparafucile), Caterina Piva (Maddalena)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Davide Livermore
Camarena, a star of the bel canto repertoire, eschews the ‘bravado’ approach taken by many tenors and brings a beautiful light, silvery tone to the role of the Duke. His voice pairs perfectly... — 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…
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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 quality... — More…
