DVD Video, Alex Esposito (bass-baritone)
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Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
RecommendedJuan Diego Flórez (Hoffmann), Ermonela Jaho (Antonia), Alex Esposito (Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto), Julie Boulianne (Nicklausse), Olga Pudova (Olympia), Marina Costa-Jackson (Giulietta), Christine Rice (Muse)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonello Manacorda, Damiano Michieletto
Always an elegant, slightly cool presence on stage, Flórez's Hoffmann is more burnt-out playboy than manic tortured poet: this is a man who has spent his life chasing his next thrill rather... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th December 2025
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Günther Groissböck (Sarastro), Saimir Pirgu (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Alex Esposito (Papageno) & Peter Bronder (Monostatos)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Roland...
This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD...[Esposito's Papageno] sung with glorious abandon, while his acting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, DVD Choice
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Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Alex Esposito (Faraone), Olga Senderskaya (Amaltea), Dmitry Korchak (Osiride), Sonia Ganassi (Elcia), Enea Scala (Mambre), Riccardo Zanellato (Moses), Yijie Shi (Aronne) & Chiara Amarù (Amenofi)
Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna & Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto...
Vick and his designers use the space to the fullest...Roberto Abbado gives a well-proportioned reading, avoiding the temptation to turn the piece into early Verdi...Mancini's video direction... —
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Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Angela Meade (Giselda), Francesco Meli (Oronte), Alex Esposito (Pagano), Giuseppe Gipali (Arvino), Livinia Bini (Viclinda), Alexandra Zabala (Sofia), Antonio Di Matteo (Pirro), Giuseppe Capoferri (Acciano), Joshua Sanders (Prior of Milan)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio Torino, Michele Mariotti...
Meade may not offer such vivid Italian as her colleagues, but she knows what she’s singing about, possesses abundant technical skill and is grand in expression…Of the three principals the finest... —
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Pizzetti: Three Orchestral Preludes for Oedipus Rex By Sophocles
Aj Glueckert, Ekaterina Semenchuck, Alex Esposito (bass-baritone), Adolfo Corrado, Luca Bernard, Sebastian Geyer, Massimo Popolizio, Lorenzo Fratini, Tiziano Mancini, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company), Daniele Gatti
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Gran Teatro La Fenice New Year’s Concert 2012
Live Recording From The Gran Teatro La Fenice, 2012
Jessica Pratt (soprano), Walter Fraccaro (tenor) & Alex Esposito (bass)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Gran Teatro La Fenice, Diego Matheuz
La Fenice's 2012 concert begins, unusually, with Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, a lively performance —
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
Anna Goryachova (Isabella), Alex Esposito (Mustafà), Yijie Shi (Lindoro) & Mario Cassi (Taddeo)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, José Ramón Encinar (stage director) & Davide Livermore (director)
One would have looked in vain 30 years ago for a coloratura bass as vocally adept and gifted as Alex Esposito. Anna Goryachova is a superlative Isabella, Mario Cassi a suitably downtrodden Taddeo...1970s-themed,... —
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Irina Lungu (Donna Anna), Maria José Siri (Donna Elvira), Saimir Pirgu (Don Ottavio), Natalia Roman (Zerlina), Christian Senn (Masetto), Rafał Siwek (Il Commendatore)
Arena di Verona, Stefano Montanari, Franco Zeffirelli
They really don’t make them like this any more…The production is lavish and highly populated, 18th-century Seville in all its Baroque glory...Although the playing of the Arena di Verona Orchestra... —
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Stéphane Degout (Il Conte), Eleonora Buratto (Contessa), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Alex Esposito (Figaro), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Katharine Goeldner (Marcellina), Umberto Chiummo (Bartolo), Krystian Adam (Basilio), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Bolton is observant in conveying the detail of the score, drawing clean, clear textures from the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra...Bösch’s production is more of a mixed quantity...Figaro is a... —
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Rossini: La gazza ladra
Paolo Bordogna (Fabrizio), Kleopatra Papatheologou (Lucia), Dmitry Korchak (Giannetto), Mariola Cantarero (Ninetta), Alex Esposito (Fernando), Michele Pertusi (Gottardo), Manuela Custer (Pippo), Stefan Cifolelli (Isacco)
Orchestra Haydn Di Bolzano e Trento, Lü Jia, Damiano Michieletto
[Korchak is] movie-star handsome and offer[s] gorgeous tone, elegant style and as positive a dramatic portrayal as Messrs Rossini and Michieletto allow...[Pertusi's] Gottardo justifies the entire... —
