DVD Video, Teatro Regio di Parma (opera company)
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ketevan Kemoklidze (Rosina), Luca Salsi (Figaro), Dmitry Korchak (Il Conte d’Almaviva), Giovanni Furlanetto (Don Basilio) & Bruno Praticò (Bartolo)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni (conductor) & Stefano Vizioli (stage director)
A traditional approach, neatly conducted by the youthful Andrea Battistoni. It's a lively show, though the singing varies from Bruno Pratico's expert Bartolo to Luca Salsi's careless Figaro. —
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Special offer. Verdi: La forza del destino
Dimitra Theodossiou (Leonora), Vladimir Stoyanov (Don Carlo), Aquiles Machado (Don Alvaro), Mariana Pentcheva (Preziosilla), Roberto Scanduzzi (Padre Guardiano), Carlo Lepore (Fra Melitone), Ziyan Afteh (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Adriana di Paola (Curra), Hyung Ho Kim (Mastro Trabucco)
Orchestra...
Gelmetti, with his wristy up-beats and flowing pacing, commands a distinguished cast —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Due Foscari
Leo Nucci (Francesco Foscari), Roberto De Biasio (Jacopo Foscari), Tatiana Serjan (Lucrezia Contarini), Roberto Tagliavini (Jacopo Loredano)
Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Parma, Donato Renzetti
Lee’s production of I due Foscari, set against a simple curved backdrop and beautifully costumed, works best on screen...with Nucci giving a baritonal masterclass in the title role, Tatiana... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Corsaro
Bruno Ribeiro (Corrado), Andrea Papi (Giovanni), Irina Lungo (Medora), Luca Salsi (Seid), Silvia dalla Benetta (Gulnara), Gregory Bonfatti (Selimo), Angelo Villari (Un eunoco/Uno schiavo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Carlo Montanaro
It's simple but stylish and lavishly costumed...Silvia Dalla Benetta...quite steals the show as Gulnara...Plenty of good music and piratical heroics make this traditional staging eminently watchable. —
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Special offer. Verdi: Ernani
Marco Berti (Ernani), Carlo Guelfi (Don Carlo), Giacomo Prestia (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Susan Neves (Elvira), Nicoletta Zanini (Giovanna), Samuele Simoncini (Don Riccardo) & Alessandro Svab (Jago)
Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Parma, Antonello Allemandi
Berti’s Ernani has an effective vocal line and little stage persona, Carlo Guelfi’s baritone suddenly springs into life with his aria, and Giacomo Prestia is a slightly woolly-toned da Silva.... —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Leo Nucci (Guido di Monforte), Dario Russo (Il Sire di Bethune), Andrea Mastroni (Il Conte Vaudemont), Fabio Armiliato (Arrigo), Giacomo Prestia (Giovanni da Procida), Daniela Dessi (Elena), Adriana di Paola (Ninetta), Raoul d'Eramo (Danieli), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Tebaldo), Alessandro Battiato...
The singing and musicianship here is of a high standard and Zanetti conducts with verve...Certain aspects of Pier Luigi Pizzi’s production are good while others are somewhat disappointing. —
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Susanna Branchini (Aida), Mariana Pentcheva (Amneris), Walter Fraccaro (Radames), Alberto Gazale (Amonasro), Carlo Malinverno (Il Re di Egitto), George Andguladze (Ramfis), Cosimo Vassallo (Un messaggiero), Yu Guanqun (Una sacerdotessa)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Antonino Fogliani
a musically strong and visually spectacular production...In a very traditional staging, Lee brings an enormous amount of visual detail to the opera...Aida and Amneris lead with superb performances,... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Francesco Meli (Riccardo), Vladimir Stoyanov (Renato), Kristin Lewis (Amelia), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Ulrica), Serena Gamberoni (Oscar), Filippo Polinelli (Silvano), Antonio Barbargallo (Samuel), Enrico Rinaldo (Tom)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Gianluigi Gelmetti
It's aptly cast - Francesco Meli's Riccardo with fine legato, Stoyanov an uncommonly civilised Renato whose remorse after the assassination is all the more credible, Samuel and Tom not overdone... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Enrico Iori (Banco), Sylvie Valayre (Lady Macbeth), Roberto Iuliano (Macduff), Tiziana Tramonti (Dama di Lady Macbeth), Nicola Pascoli (Malcolm), Enrico Turco (Il Medico), Davide Ronzoni (L'Araldo), Riccardo di Stefano (Un Domestico) & Noris Borgogelli (Il Sicario)
Orchestra...
What makes this production so rewarding are the utterly compelling performances of the Macbeths, Shakepearian in intensity...[Nucci's] Macbeth is a deeply thoughtful portrayal...Valayre is up... —
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Verdi Gala 2004
Buon Compleanno, Maestro Verdi!
José Cura, Leo Nucci, Zvetan Michailov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Riccardo Zanellato, Adriana Damato, Alessandra Rezza, et al.
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Renato Palumbo
