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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFive-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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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - DVD Performance
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Bellini: Norma
RecommendedSonya Yoncheva (Norma), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Sonia Ganassi (Adalgisa), Brindley Sherratt (Oroveso), David Junghoon Kim (Flavio), Vlada Borovko (Clotilde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Àlex Ollé (director)
The virtues of this staging lie in individual performances and in the music-making, with the Royal Opera House Orchestra and chorus giving taut and committed interpretations under Antonio Pappano.... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Offer, Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi Jessica Pratt (Giulietta), Sonia Ganassi (Romeo), Shalva Mukeria (Tebaldo), Rubén Amoretti (Capellio), Luca Dall'Amico (Lorenzo)
Teatro La Fenice, Omer Meir Wellber, Arnaud Bernard
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Fiorenza Cedolins (Maria Stuarda), Jose Bros (Leicester), Mirco Palazzi (Talbot), Pervin Chakar (Anna), Marco Caria (Cecil)
Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, Fabrizo Maria Carminati
Maestro Carminati looks an amiable, gentle soul as he enters the pit but he unleashes a firestorm of tension and passion in the big duets and his judicious tempi bind Donizetti's not-so-easy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, DVD of the Month
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Bellini: Norma Fiorenza Cedolins (Norma), Sonia Ganassi (Adalgisa), Vincenzo La Scola (Pollione), Begoña Alberdi (Clotilde), Jon Plazaola (Flavio), Andrea Papi (Oroveso)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of The Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Giuliano Carella (conductor) & Francisco Negrin (director)
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Donizetti: Enrico di Borgogna Anna Bonitatibus, Sonia Ganassi
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi
[De Marchi] He actually conducts the whole performance with vigor and with elegance, bringing out the sparkling humor where needed. Perhaps the high point of this first work by Donizetti is the... — More…
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Verdi: Requiem
Dimitra Theodossiou (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Francesco Meli (tenor), Riccardo Zanellato (bass)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Yuri Temirkanov
The soloists are all very satisfactory but the performance, whilst precise, is not urgent and indeed seems a bit slow. — More…
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Sonia Ganassi (Cenerentola), Antonino Siragusa (Don Ramiro), Alfonso Antoniozzi (Don Magnifico), Marco Vinco (Dandini), Carla Di Censo (Clorinda), Paola Gardina (Tisbe), Simon Orfila (Alidoro)
Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Carlo Felice, Renato Palumbo
[On Sonia Ganassi] A wonderful young mezzo-soprano enviably possessed of stage presence and a first-rate vocal technique. — More…
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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... — More…
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366 Kurt Streit (tenor), Angeles Blancas Gulin (soprano), Iano Tamar (soprano) & Sonia Ganassi (mezzo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Marco Guidarini (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (director)
