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Offer, Verdi: La forza del destino
live recording from the Teatro Comunale, Firenze 2007
Violeta Urmana (Leonora), Carlo Guelfi (Don Carlo), Marcello Giordani (Don Alvaro), Julia Gertseva (Preziosilla), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Padre Guardiano), Bruno De Simone (Fra Melitone), Antonella Trevisan (Curra); Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta, Nicolas Joël (director)
[Urmana] is extraordinarily persuasive as Leonora...her strong, intense delivery consistently grips...The whole is directed with great vigour by Mehta.
Slightly flawed nevertheless a powerful... — More…
Pre-order, Puccini: Il Tabarro
Franco Vassallo (Michele), Angelo Villari (Luigi), María José Siri (Giorgetta), Anna Maria Chiuri (La Frugola), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli, Denis Krief (director)
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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
New, 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
Offer, 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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Offer, 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…
Offer, Vinci, Leonardo: Didone abbandonata
Roberta Mameli (Didone), Carlo Allemano (Enea), Raffaele Pé (Iarba), Gabriella Costa (Selene), Marta Pluda (Araspe), Giada Frasconi (Osmida), Alessandra Artifoni (harpsichord), Giovanni Bellini (theorbo)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Carlo Ipata
Donizetti: Heroines (The Collector's Box-Set)
Dimitra Theodossiou (Anna), Gian Luca Pasolini (Percy), Riccardo Zanellato (Enrico), Sofia Soloviy (Giovanna), Mauro Corna (Rochefort), José Maria Lo Monaco (Smeton), Luigi Albani (Hervey), Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Dario Schmunck (tenor), Andreas Schroeder (baritone) & Laura Polverelli (mezzo),...
Offer, Offenbach: Un mari à la porte
Patrizio La Placa (Henri Martel), Francesca Benitez (Rosita), Matteo Mezzaro (Florestan Ducroquet) & Marina Ogii (Suzanne)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli
it’s fun and given a suitably zingy production … best of all is Francesca Benitez … she has the big hit number, a Valse Tyrolienne, one of Offenbach’s frothiest coloratura showpieces, and she... — More…
In Memoriam: Lorin Maazel
Recorded at the basilica di San Marco,Venice, 16 Nov 2007
Norma Fantini (soprano), Anna Smirnova (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor) & Rafal Siwek (bass)
Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Symphonica Toscanini, Lorin Maazel
Maazel has chosen as soloists theatre singers on the cusp of international eminence… The Florentine chorus is first-rate, as is the recently founded and privately funded by Symphonica Toscanini,... — More…
