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Verdi: Don Carlo
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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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Offer, Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
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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: Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacope Fiesco), Jonathan Summers (Paolo Albiani), Lukas Jakobski (Piero)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
The result is far more than a vanity project...overall [Domingo] makes a remarkably moving and complex creation out of it...Summers is worn but malevolent in his sharply etched portrayal of the... — More…
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Mozart: Coronation Mass in C major & Divertimento No. 17
Kathleen Battle (soprano), Trudeliese Schmidt (mezzo-soprano), Gösta Winbergh (tenor), Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Maria Ewing (Rosina), John Rawnsley (Figaro), Max René Cosotti (Il Conte Almaviva), Claudio Desderi (Bartolo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Basilio), Catherine McCord (Berta), Robert Dean (Fiorello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Sylvain Cambreling
the finest recording of Il barbiere since the famous Callas/Gobbi set on CD...Maria Ewing is an absolutely delightful Rosina, her prettiness matching her coquettish charm and superb vocal bravura...All... — More…
Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act Italian version
José Carreras (Don Carlo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Filippo II), Piero Cappuccilli (Rodrigo), Matti Salminen (Il Grande Inquisitore), Fiamma Izzo d'Amico (Elisabetta di Valois), Agnes Baltsa (Eboli), Antonella Bandelli (Tebaldo/Una voce dal cielo)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Carolyn James, Kjell Magnus Sandve, Reinhard Dorn, Carol Vaness, Andrea Rost, Matthias Hölle
Gürzenich Orchester Köln, James Conlon
Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act Italian version
José Carreras (Don Carlo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Filippo II), Piero Cappuccilli (Rodrigo), Matti Salminen (Il Grande Inquisitore), Fiamma Izzo d'Amico (Elisabetta di Valois), Agnes Baltsa (Eboli), Antonella Bandelli (Tebaldo/Una voce dal cielo)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Verdi: Don Carlo
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Five-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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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),...