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Lully: Acis et Galatée
Jean-Francois Lombard (Acis), Elena Harsanyi (Galatee), Valeria La Grotta (Diane), Luigi de Donato (Polipheme), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (L'Abondance), Markus van Arsdale (Comus/Tircis), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Sardelli (wielding an authentically Lullian staff for certain movements) propels a crisp account – the festival orchestra’s first with period instruments. The many dances show off a wonderful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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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. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Nicola Porpora: L'Angelica
Teresa Iervolino (Orlando), Paola Valentina Molinari (Medoro), Ekaterina Bakanova (Angelica), Gaia Petrone (Licori), Sergio Foresti (Titiro), Barbara Massaro (Tirsi)
La Lira di Orfeo, Federico Maria Sardelli, Gianluca Falaschi
Graced by the participation of dancers, director/designer Gianluca Falaschi’s attractive staging mixes ancient and modern with wit; intelligently acted, it is also very capably sung...the period-orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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New. Donizetti: Lucie de Lammermoor
Caterina Sala (Lucie), Patrick Kabongo (Edgard), Vito Priante (Henri), Roberto Lorenzi (Raimond), Julien Henric (Arturo), David Astorga (Gilbert)
Gli Originali, Coro dell’accademia Teatro alla Scala, Pierre Dumoussaud, Jacopo Spirei
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Coming soon. Gaetano Donizetti: Il Diluvio Universale
Nahuel Di Pierro, Nicolò Donini, Davide Zaccherini, Eduardo Martínez, Sabrina Gárdez, Erica Artina, Sophie Burns, Enea Scala, Giuliana Gianfaldoni, Maria Elena Pepi, Wangmao Wang, Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Salvo Sgrò, Matteo Ricchetti, Riccardo Frizza
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Coming soon. Arrigo Boito: Nerone
Mikheil Sheshaberidze, Franco Vassallo, Roberto Frontali, Valentina Boi, Deniz Uzun, Dongho Kim, Vassily Solodkyy, Antonino Giacobbe, Natalia Gavrilan, Fiorenzo Tornincasa, Nicola Ebau, Francesca Zanatta, Luana Spinola, Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Lirico Di Cagliari, Giovanni Andreoli, Fabio Ceresa,...
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Gaetano Donizetti: Alfredo Il Grande
Antonino Siragusa (Alfredo), Gilda Fiume (Amalia), Lodovico Filippo Ravizza (Eduardo), Adolfo Corrado (Atkins)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Corrado Rovaris, Stefano Simone Pintor
Donizetti’s score is a fully worked-through composition, painted in military colours, swift-moving where necessary...Rovaris directs it with point and precision. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite
Annalisa Stroppa (Léonor de Guzman), Javier Camarena (Fernand), Florian Sempey (Alphonse XI), Evgeny Stavinsky (Balthazar), Edoardo Milletti (Don Gaspar)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Donizetti Opera and Coro dell’Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Valentina Carrasco, Riccardo Frizza
Javier Camarena is exemplary as Fernand, every inch the bel canto tenor in his celebrated final act aria ‘Ange si pur’. Florian Sempey’s Alphonse is a gravel-voiced villain.. Annalisa Stroppa’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Opera Choice
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Valeria Sepe (Nedda), Angelo Villari (Canio), Davide Cecconi (Tonio), Matteo Mezzaro (Beppe), Leon Kim (Silvio); Orchestra a Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Valerio Galli
This is an enjoyable, effective performance of Leoncavallo’s work. Angelo Villari is a powerful singer, with impressive ringing tone, even if he doesn’t quite command the feral strength one... — More…
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Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Bruno de Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Francesca Longari (Lauretta), Anna Maria Chiuri (Zita), Dave Monaco (Rinuccio), Costanza Fontana (Nella), Antonio Garés (Gherardo), Giada Frasconi (La Ciesca), Francesco Venuti (Betto di Signa), Eugenio Di Lieto (Simone)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,...
Bruno de Simone is an amiable, bespectacled Schicchi who could win anyone around with his mellow voice and floral shirt. He sparks off nicely against Anna Maria Chiuri, an unusually young ‘vecchia’... — More…
