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Offer, Puccini: Le Villi
Elia Fabbian (Guglielmo Wulf), Maria Teresa Leva (Anna), Leonardo Caimi (Roberto), Tony Laudadio (Il narratore)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Marco Angius, Francesco Saponaro
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…
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Offer, Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana
Alexia Voulgaridou (Santuzza), Marina Ogii (Lola), Angelo Villari (Turiddu), Devid Cecconi (Compar Alfio), Elena Zilio (Mamma Lucia) & Cristina Pagliai (Una donna)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli (conductor) & Luigi Di Gangi & Ugo Giacomazzi (directors)
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, 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…
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…
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…
Offer, Vivaldi: Il Farnace, RV711
Mary-Ellen Nesi (Farnace), Delphine Galou (Berenice), Sonia Prina (Tamiri), Loriana Castellano (Selinda), Emanuele D’Aguanno (Pompeo), Roberta Mameli (Gilade), Magnus Staveland (Aquilio), Giulia Nuti (Harpsichord), Simone Vallerotonda (Tiorba e chitarra barocca) & Michele Tazzari (Bass continuos)
Orchestra...
Vivaldi expert Federico Maria Sardelli directs the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale, Florence, with both precision and panache…Mary-Ellen Nesi is compelling in the title role…no less captivating... — 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
Offer, Donizetti: La Favorite
Veronica Simeoni (Leonor), Celso Albelo (Fernand) & Mattia Olivieri (Alphonse)
Valdes’s direction is pretty static, betraying a lack of experience staging opera, but there are some reliable vocal performances to enjoy. Mezzo Veronica Simeoni copes well with her key aria... — More…