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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: Enrico di Borgogna
Anna Bonitatibus, Sonia Ganassi
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi
[De Marchi] He actually conducts the whole performance with vigor and with elegance, bringing out the sparkling humor where needed. Perhaps the high point of this first work by Donizetti is the... — More…
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Anna Netrebko (Norina), Matthew Polenzani (Ernesto), John Del Carlo (Don Pasquale), Mariusz Kwiecień (Malatesta)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
Donizetti's modest little domestic comedy almost sinks under the weight of such production values. That is stays afloat is a tribute to Netrebko who unleashes some fearsome coloratura; and to... — More…
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
Natalie Dessay - The Miracle of the Voice
Greatest Moments on Stage
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre & Chœurs de l’Opéra de Lyon, Les Arts Florissants, Orchestre & Chœurs de l’Opéra National de Paris, Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, London Philharmonic Orchestra,...
Ms. Dessay treats opera like a form of theatre in which acting and singing are one — More…
Great Stars of Opera Vol.1
Telecasts from the Bell Telephone Hour 1959-1966
Giuseppe Di Stefano (1963), Renata Tebaldi (1959), Rise Stevens (1959), Robert Merrill & Robert Peters (1962), Anna Moffo & Nicolai Gedda (1962), Leontyne Price (1963), Leontyne Price (1966), Giulietta Simionato & Jon Vickers (1964), Richard Tucker (1965), George London (1965), Régine...
Offer, 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: 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
Valeria Esposito (Adina), Aquiles Machado (Nemorino), Enrico Marrucci (Belcore), Erwin Schrott (Dulcamara) & Roberta Canzian (Giannetta)
Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana & Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini”, Niels Muus (conductor) & Saverio Marconi (director)
