DVD Video, Teatro La Fenice (opera company)
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Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Michael Schade, Markus Werba, Coro Del Teatro La Fenice, Piccoli Cantori Veneziani, Fabio Luisi
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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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Britten: Death in Venice
Marlin Miller (Gustav von Aschenbach), Razek François Bitar (Voice of Apollo), Scott Hendricks (Traveller and other roles), Alessandro Riga (Tadzio), Danilo Palmieri (Jaschiu)
Teatro La Fenice, Bruno Bartoletti
No other production of this opera has so successfully transported the audience through a series of fully conceived sets...Marlin Miller sings with a refined lyrical sensibility...the beauty... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Bellini: La Sonnambula
Giovanni Battista Parodi (Rodolfo), Julie Mellor (Teresa), Jessica Pratt (Amina), Shalva Mukeria (Elvino)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Gabriele Ferro
Bepi Morassi's production...takes the piece with a pinch of irony, but arguably no more than intended by its creators...Pratt's blonde bombshell of an Amina shows good range of technical skills... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, DVD of the Month
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New Year’s Concert
Live recording from the Teatro La Fenice, 1 January 2013
Desirée Rancatore (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice & Members of the Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Verdi: Otello
Gregory Kunde (Otello), Carmela Remigio (Desdemona), Lucio Gallo (Iago), Elisabetta Martorana (Emilia)
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Myung-whun Chung
The main strength of the performance is the taut conducting of Myung-Whun Chung, who barely lets the tensions drop for a second...Kunde, a genuine tenor rather than baritonal Otello, is strong... — More…
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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Annick Massis (soprano), Yasu Nakajima (tenor), Luca Grassi (baritone) & Luigi De Donato (bass)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Marcello Viotti (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (director & set and costume designer)
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Massenet: Thaïs
Eva Mei (soprano), Michele Perusi (bass-baritone), William Joyner (tenor) & Christophe Fel (bass)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezi, Marcello Viotti (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (director, set and costume designer)
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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 — More…
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Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore
Giuseppe Gipali (tenor), Ana María Sanchez (soprano), Vladimir Stoyanov (baritone) & Riccardo Zanellato (bass)
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Marcello Viotti (conductor) & Arnaud Bernard (director)
