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Verdi: Rigoletto
Ingvar Wixell (Rigoletto/Monterone), Edita Gruberova (Gilda), Luciano Pavarotti (Il Duca), Victoria Vergara (Maddalena), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Sparafucile), Fedora Barbieri (Giovanna), Bernd Weikl (Marullo), Rémy Corazza (Borsa), Roland Bracht (Il Conte di Ceprano), Kathleen Kuhlmann (La Contessa...
It is truly memorable, with Pavarotti a Bacchus-like figure in the orgy scene...He acts the part of the Count as believably as if the latter's philosophy was his very own, and he sings gloriously... — More…
Verdi: Don Carlo
Recommended
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Rolando Villazon (Don Carlo), Marina Poplavskaya (Elisabetta di Valois), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Philip II), Sonia Ganassi (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner
the love-torn relationship of the titular prince and the fiancée stolen from him by his father the king is sensitively staged and played: Rolando Villazon (in less uncertain voice than reportedly... — More…
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Recommended
Juan Diego Florez (Count Almaviva), Joyce DiDonato (Rosina), Pietro Spagnoli (Figaro), Alessandro Corbelli (Doctor Bartolo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Basilio), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Berta), Changhan Lim (Fiorello)
The Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
Juan Diego Florez is the Almaviva of one's dreams, vocally and musically impeccable...and an actor of enormous charm and intelligence, whilst in the title role Pietro Spagnoli offers warmth and... — More…
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act version
Stuart Neill (Don Carlo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Filippo II), Dalobor Jenis (Rodrigo), Anatolij Kotscherga (Il Grand Inquisitore), Fiorenza Cedolins (Elisabetta), Dolora Zajick (Eboli), Irena Bespalovaite (Voce dal Cielo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Daniele Gatti
Offer, Verdi Boxed Set: Aida, Traviata & Macbeth
Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo), Zeljko Lucic (Germont), Nina Stemme (Aida), Luciana d'Intino (Amneris), Salvatore Licitra (Radames), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Matti Salminen (Ramfis) & Günther Groissböck (King), Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco),...
The Verdi Collection
Matteo Manuguerra (Nabucco), Veriano Luchetti (Ismaele), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Zaccaria), Renata Scotto (Abigaille), Elena Obraztsova (Fenena), Robert Lloyd (Gran Sacerdote), Kenneth Collins (Abdallo), Anne Edwards (Anna), Plácido Domingo (Ernani), Mirella Freni (Elvira), Renato Bruson (Carlo), Nicolai...
28 CDs + DVD Video
$82.00In stock
Boito: Mefistofele
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Mefistofele), Giuseppe Filianoti (Faust), Dimitra Theodossiou (Margherita / Elena), Sonia Zaramella (Marta), Monica Minarelli (Pantalis) & Mimmo Ghegghi (Wagner/ Nereo)
Teatro Massimo, Stefano Ranzani, Giancarlo Del Monaco
This is an opera (I conclude) to be heard and not seen. The opportunities for excess are just too many and too tempting. The production avoids stained-glass religiosity but resorts to a symbolism... — More…
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Edita Gruberova, Teresa Stratas, Luis Lima & Ferruccio Furlanetto
Wiener Philharmoniker, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Offer, Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Thomas Hampson (SImon Boccanegra), Cristina Gallardo-Domâs (Amelia/Maria), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Fiesco), Miroslav Dvorský (Gabriele Adorno), Boaz Daniel (Paolo), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Pietro)
Chorus and Orchestra of The Vienna State Opera, Daniele Gatti (conductor) & Peter Stein (director)
Offer, Verdi: Macbeth
Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco), Violeta Urmana (Lady Macbeth), Letitia Singleton (Dama), Stefano Secco (Macduff)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris & Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Teodor Currentzis
Personal relationships are illuminatingly handled in spite of Tcherniakov's aversion to monologues. Home viewing produces, I guess, a more accessible experience than the audience had in Paris's... — More…
