Browse: DVD Video, Donizetti (composer)
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
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Natalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
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Joyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam
Giorgio Caoduro (Tsar), Juan Francisco Gatell (Pietro Flimann), Andrea Concetti (Wambett), Irina Dubrovskaya (Marietta), Aya Wakizono (Carlotta), Pietro Di Bianco (Leforte), Pasquale Scircoli (Alì Mahmed), Alessandro Ravasio (An Officer)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera,...
This production doesn’t feature any stars, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-acted romp. — More…
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Offer, Bel Canto Operas
Joyce DiDonato (Romeo), Nicole Cabell (Giulietta), Saimir Pirgu (Tebaldo), Eric Owens (Capellio) & Ao Li (Lorenzo), Renée Fleming (Lucrezia), Michael Fabiano (Gennaro), Elizabeth DeShong (Orsini), Vitalij Kowaljow (Don Alfonso)
San Francisco Opera, Riccardo Frizza
when you listen and forget about the fashion runway, this is a fine performance of Bellini's score. Joyce DiDonato is everything you would want in a Romeo, ardent and angry and in superb voice...And... — More…
Donizetti: Poliuto
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Michael Fabiano (Poliuto), Ana Maria Martinez (Paolina), Igor Golovatenko (Severo), Matthew Rose (Callistene), Timothy Robinson (Felice) & Emanuele D’Aguanno (Nearco)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Mazzola (conductor) & Mariame Clément (stage director)
[Fabiano] is an exciting talent…Martínez is a tortured Paolina, plumbing the emotional depths, and Matthew Rose is menacing as Callistene…the most notable performance comes from Igor Golovatenko... — More…
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Rolando Villazón (Nemorino), Anna Netrebko (Adina), Leo Nucci (Belcore), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Dulcamara), Inna Los (Giannetta)
Orchester & Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Alfred Eschwé
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Diana Damrau (Lucia), Charles Castronovo (Edgardo), Ludovic Tézier (Enrico), Taylor Stayton (Arturo), Kwangchul Youn (Raimondo), Rachael Lloyd (Alisa), Peter Hoare (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren, Katie Mitchell (dir.)
The staging is over-stuffed but it is not stupid or careless…Minute alterations in the textures of Donizetti’s orchestration are brilliantly clear. Were you not already persuaded that the opera... — More…
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Patrizia Ciofi (Norina), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Marzio Giossi (Dr. Malatesta), Norman Shankle (Ernesto) & Romaric Braun (Notary)
Chorus of the Grand Theatre de Geneve & Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Evelino Pido
Donizetti's final comic masterpiece demands velocity, pathos and above all wit. This Don Pasquale from Geneva has them all, and with Evelino Pidò conducting in the pit, it bubbles with excitement. — More…
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
María Bayo (Adina), Rolando Villazón (Nemorino), Jean-Luc Chaignaud (Belcore), Bruno Praticò (Dulcamara), Cristina Obregón (Giannetta)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Daniele Callegari (musical director) & Mario Gas (stage director)
Rolando Villazón is here on top form, fleshing out the notes with alternate delicacy and vehemence and personifying the shy, frustrated hero with a Chaplinesque range of gesture and mannerism...María... — More…
Donizetti: La Favorite
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Elīna Garanca (Léonor de Guzman), Matthew Polenzani (Fernand), Mariusz Kwiecień (Alphonse XI)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Staatsoper, Karel Mark Chichon, Amélie Niermeyer (dir.)
The role of Léonor seems tailor-made for Garanča...her detached elegance and regal hauteur are ideal for this high-end trophy-mistress...When she finally lets her guard down in that great Act... — More…