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DVD Video, Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)
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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Sonya Yoncheva (Dido), Halidou Nombre (Aeneas), Sarah Charles (Belinda), Attila Varga-Tóth (Sorceress/Sailor)
Choeur & Orchestre de l'Opera Royal, Stefan Plewniak
[Yoncheva] invests the heroine with a gutsy east European swagger that only increases the impact and agony of the abandoned Dido’s final lament When I Am Laid in Earth...Sarah Charles, very... —
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Vittorio Grigolo (Hoffmann), Kate Lindsey (Nicklausse/Muse), Christine Rice (Giulietta), Sonya Yoncheva (Antonia), Sofia Fomina (Olympia), Thomas Hampson Coppélius/Dapertutto/Lindorf/Miracle)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Opera Chorus, Evelino Pidò (conductor) & John Schlesinger...
Sofia Fomina trills like a canary as the mechanical doll, Christine Rice is darkly beguiling as Giulietta and Sonya Yoncheva’s Antonia would melt a heart of stone. Kate Lindsey’s Nicklausse... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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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.... —
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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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Special offer. Love Duets
Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Vittorio Grigolo (tenor), Orchestra of the Arena di Verona, Placido Domingo
Vocally, there is much to relish from two artists at home in this repertoire. Yoncheva performs with consummate artistry, her dark-hued voice consistently well-projected and even across the... —
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Puccini: La Bohème
Sonya Yoncheva (Mimì), Charles Castronovo (Rodolfo), Andrzej Filończyk (Marcello), Simona Mihai (Musetta), Gyula Nagy (Schaunard), Peter Kellner (Colline), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Richard Jones, Emmanuel Villaume
Individual performances are perceptive and human. Charles Castronovo makes a likeable Rodolfo, his sense of Italianate style as much an asset as the dynamic range of his lyric tenor…With Sonya... —
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Baroque Academie : Le Jardin des Voix
Francesca Boncompagni (soprano) Italy, Claire Meghnagi (soprano) Italy / Israel, Laura Hynes Smith (soprano) USA, Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) Bulgaria, Amaya Dominguez (mezzo-soprano) France, Michal Czerniawski (countertenor) Poland, Juan Sancho (tenor) Spain, Pascal Charbonneau (tenor) Canada, Nicholas...
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sonya Yoncheva (Poppée), Max Emanuel Cencic (Néron), Ann Hallenberg (Octavie), Tim Mead (Othon), Paul Whelan (Sénèque) & Amel Brahim-Djelloul (Drusilla)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor) & Jean-François Sivadier (stage director)
[Haim leads with] a fine sensitivity towards the urgent, tensile springiness of the melodic lines; and a superb handling of the instrumental forces...The title role here is taken by the suitably... —
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta - The Nutcracker
Sonya Yoncheva, Arnold Rutkowski, Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)
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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Vittorio Grigolo (tenor), Roman Burdenko (baritone), Carlo Bosi, Giorgi Manoshvili, Hugo de Ana, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Chorus of the Arena di Verona, Orchestra of the Arena di Verona
In all respects, she is a sensation in this role: truly one of the great Toscas of our time, and the DVD surely deserves a place in the Puccini fan’s collection on that count alone...The production... —
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Pergolesi: Flaminio
Juan Francisco Gatell (Polidoro), Laura Polverelli (Flaminio), Marina De Liso (Giustina), Sonia Yoncheva (Agata) & Serena Malfi (Ferdinando)
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor) & Michal Znaniecki (stage director)
The recitatives are crisp, witty and delivered at a rate of knots. The production and staging are tight too...[the singers are] technically absolutely rock solid and terrific actors but never... —
