DVD Video, Warner Classics (label)
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Maddalena de Coigny), Željko Lučić (Carlo Gérard), Denyce Graves (Bersi), Elena Zilio (Madelon), Rosalind Plowright (Contessa de Coigny), Roland Wood (Roucher), Peter Coleman-Wright (Pietro Fléville), Eddie Wade (Fouquier-Tinville), Adrian Clarke...
The Countess de Coigny in sumptuous purple satin is sung to great effect by Rosalind Plowright, as is Elena Zilio’s Madelon…never less than compelling on screen, Jonas Kaufmann is a perfect... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2016, Recording of the Month
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White (Porgy), Cynthia Haymon (Bess), Gregg Baker (Crown), Harolyn Blackwell (Clara), Cynthia Clarey (Serena), Marietta Simpson (Maria), Damon Evans (Sportin' Life)
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle, production direction by Trevor Nunn
In an ideal world, operatic recordings would always evolve in this way...We've a real sense here of Gershwin's community, a feeling of oneness with the piece from singers who've not only lived... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacope Fiesco), Jonathan Summers (Paolo Albiani), Lukas Jakobski (Piero)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
The result is far more than a vanity project...overall [Domingo] makes a remarkably moving and complex creation out of it...Summers is worn but malevolent in his sharply etched portrayal of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, DVD of the Month
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
RecommendedAnthony Dowell & Lesley Collier
Royal Ballet & Royal Opera House, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
(recorded at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1986)
Susan Dunn (Elena), Leo Nucci (Guido di Montforte), Veriano Luchetti (Arrigo), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Giovanni da Procida), Gianfranco Casarini (Il Sire di Bethume), Sergio Fontana (Il Conte Vaudemont), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Ninetta), Sergio Bertocchi (Danieli), Bruno Lazzaretti (Tebaldo), Giuseppe...
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Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Richard Winsor (The Swan/The Stranger), Dominic North (The Prince), Nina Goldman (The Queen), Madelaine Brennan (The Girlfriend), Steven Kirkham (The Private Secretary), Joseph Vaughan (The Young Prince)
The New London Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones, Matthew Bourne (director & choreographer)
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey, Benjamin Luxon, Hildegard Heichele (guest appearances by Hinge & Bracket, Charles Aznavour, Merle Park & Wayne Eagling)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Placido Domingo
