DVD Video, Pergolesi (composer)
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Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria
Marina Comparato (Adriano), Lucia Cirillo (Emirena), Annamaria Dell’Oste (Farnaspe), Nicole Heaston (Sabina), Stefano Ferrari (Osroa) & Francesca Lombardi (Aquilio Tribuno)
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor) & Ignacio García (director)
Top marks go to conductor and director for giving the music space to breathe. The vocal cast is almost uniformly brilliant. The tension between unbridled feeling and duty's constraints - a tension... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, DVD Choice
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Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade
Raul Gimenez (Clistene), Lyubov Petrova (Aristea), Yetzabel Arias Fernandez (Argene), Jennifer Rivera (Licida), Sofia Soloviy (Megacle)
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor) & Italo Nunziata (director)
an astonishingly vital, stirring experience...thanks to the inspired advocacy of Alessandro de Marchi and his superb Accademia Montis Regalis, one quickly appreciates the composer's widened... — More…
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Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato
Alessandro Corbelli (Marcaniello), Nuccia Focile (Ascanio), Amelia Felle (Nena), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Nina), Luciana d'Intino (Luggrezia), Ezio di Cesare (Carlo), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (Vannella), Nicoletta Curiel (Cardella), Bruno de Simone (Don Pietro), Luca Bonini (Lo schermidore)
Orchestra...
…delivered with a polish that makes almost every moment a delight. …the comic brilliance of the baritones Alessandro Corbelli and Bruno De Simone, the lustrous voices of the sopranos Nuccia... — More…
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Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato
Nicola Alaimo (Marcaniello), Elena Belfiore (Ascanio), Patrizia Biccirè (Nena), Jurgita Adamonyte (Nina), Barbara Di Castri (Luggrezia), David Alegret (Carlo), Laura Cherici (Vannella), Rosa Bove (Cardella), Filippo Morace (Don Pietro)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor) & Willy Landin...
The production...brilliantly updates the work to the 1950s. Its whole atmosphere is redolent of that great era in Italian cinema...The fast-paced comedy is perfectly placed - and ideally paced...Patrizia... — More…
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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... — More…
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Pergolesi: La Salustia
Vittorio Prato (Marziano), Serena Malfi (Salustia), Laura Polverelli (Giulia), Florin Cezar Ouatu (Alessandro) & Giacinta Nicotra (Albina)
Accademia Barocca De I Musici Italiani, Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Juliette Deschamps (stage director)
Deschamps's production is clear and visually handsome...Shining vocally brightly are mezzo-soprano Laura Polverelli as the scheming Giulia, mezzo Serena Malfi as the victimised Salustia and... — More…
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The La Scala Collection Box Set
11 Operas - Over Thirty Hours of Superb Entertainment
Thomas Allen, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Daniela Dessì, Alessandro Corbelli, Giorgio Zancanaro, Chris Merritt, Cheryl Studer and Sara Mingardo
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Lorin Maazel and Stefano Ranzani
