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Offer, Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Andrea Gruber (soprano), Marco Berti (tenor), Carlo Colombara (bass), Alberto Mastromarino (baritone), Ildiko Komlosi (mezzo), Elisabetta Fiorillo (alto), Prima ballerina (Letizia Giuliani) & Male lead (Roberto Bolle)
Orchestra, Chorus & Corps de Ballet of the Arena di Verona, Donato...
Offer, 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)
Offer, Marschner, H A: Hans Heiling
Markus Werba (baritone), Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano), Herbert Lippert (tenor) & Gabriele Fontana (mezzo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (director set and costume designer)
The sound is fine, the video direction primitive and singer-centred. But, despite reservations, this remains an essential purchase for the work and its place in operatic history. — More…
Offer, Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Deborah Voigt (La Gioconda), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Laura Adorno), Carlo Colombara (Alvise Badoero), Ewa Podleś (La Cieca) & Carlo Guelfi (Barnaba)
Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Daniele Callegari (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (stage director)
Offer, Korngold: Die Tote Stadt, Op. 12
Stefan Vinke (Paul), Solveig Kringelborn (Marie / Mariette), Stephan Genz (Frank / Fritz), Christa Mayer (Brigitta), Eleonore Marguerre (Juliette), Julia Oesch (Lucienne), Gino Potente (Gaston), Shi Yijie (Victorin) & Mathias Schulz (Albert)
Eliahu Inbal (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi...
The lighting designer, Vincenzo Raponi, ensures that no expression goes unchecked on the faces of an uncommonly fine group of singers...[Kringelborn] makes her second entrance as a vision in... — More…
Offer, Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Amarilli Nizza (Elena), Renzo Zulian (Arrigo), Vladimir Stoyanov (Monforte), Orlin Anastassov (Procida)
Orchestra e Coro della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Conducted by Stefano Ranzani & Director, set and costume designer: Pier Luigi Pizzi
Offer, Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Raffaella Angeletti (Butterfly), Massimiliano Pisapia (Pinkerton), Claudio Sgura (Sharpless), Annunziata Vestri (Suzuki), Nino Batatunashvili (Kate Pinkerton), Thomas Morris (Goro)
Fondatione Orchestra Regionale Delle Marche, Daniele Callegari, Pier Luigi Pizzi
a very moving, intelligent show...Pisapia is a good Pinkerton, going from vaguely stupid and callow, to being in love with the idea of love, to sorrow and regret. His voice is hearty and reliable...Claudio... — More…
Offer, 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)
Offer, 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)
Offer, Mozart: Don Giovanni
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Don Giovanni), Andrea Concetti (Leporello), Carmela Remigio (Donna Elvira), Myrto Papatanasiu (Donna Anna), Marlin Miller (Don Ottavio), Manuela Bisceglie (Zerlina), William Corrò (Masetto), Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Il Commendatore)
Teatro La Fenice, Riccardo Frizza (conductor),...
A performance and production which are as near perfection as I can ever hope to experience…[D'Arcangelo] has just the right sleazy glamour for the role, both repellent and irresistible...His... — More…
