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Wagner: Die Walküre Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Emily Magee (Sieglinde), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), John Lundgren (Wotan), Sarah Connolly (Fricka), Ain Anger (Hunding), Lise Davidsen (Ortlinde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano, Keith Warner
Pappano has always had a special relationship with the Ring’s second part…and the Royal Opera House Orchestra rewards him with some of its most sumptuous playing. The cast in this 2018 staging... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Opera Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - DVD
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Frank Lopardo (Alfredo), Leo Nucci (Giorgio Germont), Leah-Marian Jones (Flora), Gillian Knight (Annina), Robin Leggate (Gastone), Mark Beesley (Dottore Grenvil), Richard Van Allan (Baron Douphol), Roderick Earle (Marchese d'Obigny)
Orchestra & Chorus of Royal...
The singing is glorious, and this is one of the DVDs that should be the cornerstone in any collection. A superb stage spectacle. — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Puccini: Tosca
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Tosca), Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi), Bryn Terfel (Scarpia), Lukas Jakobski (Angelotti), Jeremy White (Sacristan)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Jonathan Kent (director)
Pappano's mastery of Puccinian pace and phrasing intensifies this turbulent score's onward surge, but he's also noticeable attentive to his singers...[Kaufmann's] cries of 'Vittoria!' are thrilling...and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, DVD Award (Performance)
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedErwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal. — More…
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Building a Library, May 2014, First Choice (DVD)
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - DVD
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedIl Tabarro
Lucio Gallo (Michele), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Luigi), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Giorgetta), Alan Oke (Tinca), Jeremy White (Talpa), Irina Mishura (La Frugola), Ji-Min Park (Venditore), Robert Anthony Gardiner (Due Amanti)
Suor Angelica
Ermonela...
a triumph...three wonderfully directed and expertly acted productions. Add in Pappano's impeccable conducting and his valuable introductions to the pieces, and you have a nigh-on ideal Trittico. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, DVD Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Opera
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Maddalena de Coigny), Željko Lučić (Carlo Gérard), Denyce Graves (Bersi), Elena Zilio (Madelon), Rosalind Plowright (Contessa de Coigny), Roland Wood (Roucher), Peter Coleman-Wright (Pietro Fléville), Eddie Wade (Fouquier-Tinville), Adrian Clarke...
The Countess de Coigny in sumptuous purple satin is sung to great effect by Rosalind Plowright, as is Elena Zilio’s Madelon…never less than compelling on screen, Jonas Kaufmann is a perfect foil... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2016, Recording of the Month
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Opera
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New,
Gounod: Faust Erwin Schrott (Mephistopheles), Michael Fabiano (Faust), Irina Lungu (Marguerite)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Dan Ettinger, David McVicar
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Szymanowski: Król Roger
Mariusz Kwiecien (King Roger II of Sicily), Georgia Jarman (Roxana), Saimir Pirgu (Shepherd), Kim Begley (Edrisi), Alan Ewing (Archbishop), Agnes Zwierko (Deaconess)
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Kasper Holten (director)
all the imagination of Kasper Holten's production coheres compellingly, and Antonio Pappano shapes an extremely lucid performance that somehow manages to be taut and lush at the same time. Mariusz... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2016, Recording of the Month
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