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DVD Video, Donizetti (composer)
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
RecommendedNatalie 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.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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Donizetti: Chiara E Serafina
Pietro Spagnoli (Don Meschino), Matías Moncada (Don Alvaro/Don Fernando), Fan Zhou (Serafina), Greta Doveri (Chiara), Hyun-Seo Davide Park (Don Ramiro), Sung-Hwan Damien Park (Picaro), Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Orchestra Gli Originali, Sesto Quatrini, Gianluca Falaschi (director)
As revivals of forgotten operas go this is a gem: a clever staging, finely sung, of an opera that owes its 200 years’ neglect more to the circumstances of its making than to the music. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore
Nadine Sierra (Adina), Liparit Avetisyan (Nemorino), Bryn Terfel (Dulcamara), Boris Pinkhasovich (Belcore), Sarah Dufresne (Giannetta)
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sesto Quatrini
What a joyous night has been captured here – a dual harvest of first fruit and vintage wine...Sierra is in luscious form…[Terfel] returns to the role of Dulcamara with a gusto that’s hard to... —
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My Favourite Opera: Barbara Hendricks
Barbara Hendricks (Norina), Gabriel Bacquier (Don Pasquale), Gino Quilico (Malatesta), Luca Canonici (Ernesto), René Schirrer (Un notaio)
Sinfonietta de Varsovie & Les chœurs du festival, Gabriele Ferro
Visually attractive but leisurely documentary —
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Roberto de Candia (Don Pasquale), Giulia Mazzola (Norina), Javier Camarena (Ernesto), Dario Sogos (Malatesta)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Iván López-Reynoso, Amélie Niermeyer
the revelation is Giulia Mazzola, a member (like Sogos) of the festival's young artist scheme, a sparky actress who convinces as a workingclass confidence trickster but sings with the most tender,... —
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Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), John Osborn (Roberto Devereux), Simone Piazzola (Duca di Nottingham), Raffaella Lupinacci (Sara, Duchessa di Nottingham), David Astorga (Lord Cecil), Ignas Melnikas (Sir Gualtiero Raleigh)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza
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Coming soon. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Lisette Oropesa (Maria), Aigul Akhmetshina (Elisabetta), Ismael Jordi (Leicester), Roberto Tagliavini (Talbot), Andrzej Filończyk (Cecil), Elissa Pfaender (Anna), Coro Y Orquesta Titulares del Teatro Real, David McVicar, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra
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Donizetti: Zoraida di Granata
Konu Kim, Zuzana Marková, Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano), Tuty Hernàndez, Lilla Takács, Valerio Morelli, Orchestra Gli Originali, Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Salvo Sgrò, Bruno Ravella, Teatro alla Scala (opera company), Alberto Zanardi
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, DVD of the Month
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Donizetti: Poliuto
RecommendedMichael 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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2016
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