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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), Rúni Brattaberg (Titurel), Maria Zifchak (Stimme)
Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera, Daniele Gatti, Francois Girard (dir.)
Kaufmann is the Parsifal we've all been waiting for...Matching his agonies are those of Peter Mattei's Amfortas and Katarina Dalayman's lustrous, secure Kundry, while the relaxed, minimal gestures... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th February 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Opéra
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Adès: The Exterminating Angel
RecommendedAudrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Frédéric Antoun, David Portillo, Rod Gilfry, John Tomlinson; Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Adès, Gary Halvorson
In this recording of the production from the Met in New York you being to wonder whether the guests are on stage or in the audience. Ades, who co-wrote the libretto with his director Tom Cairns,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, March 2019, Vidéo
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
RecommendedDiana Damrau (Leïla), Matthew Polenzani (Nadir), Mariusz Kwiecien (Zurga), Nicolas Teste (Nourabad
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Noseda, Penny Woolcock (dir.)
Woolcock finds a double drama in Bizet's opera..., Noseda drawing sumptuous playing from the Met Orchestra...The Met fields a magnificent cast. Matthew Polenzani is a puppyish Nadir...whil Mariusz... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th January 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Opera Recording
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bellini: Norma
Live at the Metropolitan Opera, 2017
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Radvanovsky is the international Norma of choice at the moment and she sings ‘big’, lacking perhaps the legato that Bellini’s long-limbed melodies demand,. But Joyce DiDonato, making her debut... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Vidéo
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Rossini: La donna del lago
Joyce DiDonato (Elena), Juan Diego Florez (Giacomo V), John Osborn (Roderigo), Daniela Barcellona (Malcolm), Oren Gradus (Douglas)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Michele Mariotti, Paul Curran (dir.)
Florez is his usual exuberant self, throwing off top notes casually and deserving his Niagaras of applause...DiDonato as the much sought-after heroine is, as always, in tremendous form, not only... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Opera Choice
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Opera, March 2016, Recording of the Month
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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedElina Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Keith Miller (Zuniga), Elizabeth Caballero (Frasquita), Sandra Piques Eddy (Mercedes), Earle Patriarco (Dancaire), Keith Jameson (Remandado), Trevor Scheunemann (Morales)
Metropolitan...
...everyone on stage, from stars to comprimarios and children (authentically underfoot), crackles with individual life, ideal on video... Garanča's clean-cut Baltic mezzo and fresh good looks... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, DVD of the Month
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Glass: Akhnaten
Zachary James (Amenhotep III), Richard Bernstein (Aye), Aaron Blake (High Priest), Will Liverman (General Horemhab), Anthony Roth Constanzo (Akhnaten), Disella Larusdottir (Queen Tye), J'Nai Bridges (Nefertiti), Metropolitan Opera, Karen Kamensek
Costanzo gives so much to the titular role in Philip Glass’s 1983 work…J’Nai Bridges is a dazzling Nefertiti and Dísella Lárusdóttir epitomises regal restraint. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Renee Fleming (Tatyana), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Onegin), Ramon Vargas (Lensky) & Elena Zaremba (Olga), Sergej Aleksashkin (Gremin), Svetlana Volkova (Larina), Larissa Shevchenko (Filipyevna), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Triquet)
Metropolitan Opera, Valery Gergiev
Luxuriously cast but staged with restraint, Robert Carsen's production as revived by Peter McLintock has already reached wide audiences through the Met's live screenings. For one, Onegin really... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, DVD Choice
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFive-act version
Plácido Domingo (Don Carlo), Mirella Freni (Elisabetta), Grace Bumbry (Eboli), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Filippo II), Louis Quilico (Rodrigo) & Ferruccio Furlanetto (Il Grand Inquisitor)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
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Building a Library, March 2006, Recommended DVD
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