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DVD Video, Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Patrizia Ciofi (Giulietta), Clara Polito (Romeo), Danilo Formaggia (Tebaldi), Nicola Amodio (Lorenzo), Federico Sacchi (Capellio)
Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, The Bratislava Chamber Chorus, Luciano Acocella (conductor) & Denis Krief (director)
This Capuleti e i Montecchi is one of the best versions of this opera on disc. The edition used is the one Bellini made for La Scala a few months after the Venice premiere in 1830. The main... —
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Chaya Czernowin: Heart Chamber
Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Noa Frenkel, Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Terry Wey (countertenor), Ensemble Nikel, SWR Experimentalstudio, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke, Claus Guth
There is only the hint of a story; the opera unfolds through a chain of connected situations, whether imagined, dreamlike or real. Bringing this to life is music of fabulous subtlety, its textures... —
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Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto
Michael Maniaci (Armando d'Orville), Patrizia Ciofi (Palmide), Marco Vinco (Aladino), Laura Polverelli (Felicia), Fernando Portari (Adriano di Monfort), Iorio Zennaro (Osmino), Silvia Pasini (Alma)
Teatro La Fenice, Emmanuel Villaume
The great performances come from Patrizia Ciofi, exquisite as the put-upon Palmide, and Marco Vinco, marvellously authoritative as Aladino. —
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Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
Bryan Hymel (Robert), Patrizia Ciofi (Isabelle), John Relyea (Bertram), Marina Poplavskaya (Alice), Nicolas Courjal (Alberti), David Butt Philip (Master of Ceremonies), Pablo Bemsch (Second Chevalier/Herald), Ashley Riches (Prince of Granada), Jihoon Kim (Fourth Chevalier/Priest), Jean-Francois Borras...
Meyerbeer's vocal writing demands virtuoso singing, and receives that here. Bryan Hymel hurls himself unstintingly at the title role, impossible high notes and all. Marina Poplavskaya suggests... —
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Donizetti: Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
Laurent Naouri (Mamma Agata), Patrizia Ciofi (Daria), Charles Rice (Procolo), Clara Meloni (Luigia), Enea Scala (Guglielmo), Pietro Di Bianco (Biscroma Strappaviscere), Enric Marinez-Castignani (Cesare Salsapariglia), Piotr Micinski (L'Impressario), Katherine Aitken (Pippetto), Dominique Beneforti...
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Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei
Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Dario Schmunck (tenor), Andreas Schroeder (baritone) & Laura Polverelli (mezzo)
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor) & Christian Gangneron (director)
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Special offer. Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Patrizia Ciofi (Leila), Dmitry Korchak (Nadir), Dario Solari (Zurga), Roberto Tagliavini (Nourabad)
Orchestra, Coro e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo, Gabriele Ferro
[Ciofi's] clear, incisive soprano catches Bizet's floating line and liquid coloratura with fluent ease, and she seems a touch mature only in close-up - alongside the youthful Dmitry Korchak,... —
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore, Don Pasquale, Viva La Mamma
Heidi Grant Murphy (Adina), Ambrogio Maestri (Dulcamara), Laurent Naouri (Belcore, Paul Groves (Nemorino) & Aleksandra Zamojska (Giannetta), Patrizia Ciofi (Norina), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Marzio Giossi (Dr. Malatesta), Norman Shankle (Ernesto) & Romaric Braun (Notary), Jessica Pratt...
Musically there is little to fault in Evelino Pido’s nicely paced and shaped interpretation…I was somewhat bowled over by Simone Alaimo’s singing and acting. —
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Donizetti: Heroines (The Collector's Box-Set)
Jessica Pratt (soprano), Eva Mei (soprano), Jessica Pratt (Rosmonda), Eva Mei (Leonora), Dario Schmunck (Enrico), Nicola Ulivieri (Clifford), Raffaella Lupinacci (Arturo), Mariella Devia (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano), Mariella Devia (Elisabetta), Sonia Ganassi (Sara), Stefan Pop (Roberto),...
