Opera Rara
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Donizetti: Maria di Rohan
Krassimira Stoyanova (Maria di Rohan), José Bros (Riccardo), Christopher Purves (Enrico), Brindley Sherratt, Loïc Félix (Armando di Gondì), Graeme Broadbent (Il Visconte di Suze), Christopher Turner (Aubry), Riccardo Simonetti (Un Familiare di Chevreuse), Enkelejda Shkosa (mezzo - appendix arias)
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Though not the first Maria di Rohan on CD, this set comprehensively eclipses the 1996 one...above all for Mark Elder's marvellously strong, supple conducting...Opera Rara's cast imaginatively... — More…
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Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Kenneth Tarver (Aureliano), Catriona Smith (Zenobia), Silvia Tro Santafé (Arsace), Ezgi Kutlu (Publia), Andrew Foster-Williams (High Priest of Isis), Vuyani Mlinde (Licinio), Julian Alexander Smith (Oraspe)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
Opera Rara's performance is a fine one, conducted with stylistic assurance by Maurizio Benini and sung by a good cast, able to rise above the music's considerable technical challenges to achieve... — More…
3 CDs
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Meyerbeer: Margherita d'Anjou
Annick Massis (Margherita d'Anjou), Bruce Ford (Duke of Lavarenne), Daniela Barcellona (Isaura), Alastair Miles (Carlo), Fabio Previati (Michele), Pauls Putnins (Duke of Gloucester), Colin Lee (Bellapunta), Roland Wood (Orner)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
Margaret of Anjou, the widow of Henry VI, is more familiar to us as the embittered old crone in Shakespeare's Richard III. In the opera she's relatively young and beautiful, and loved by the... — More…
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Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide
Bruce Ford (Agorante), Nelly Miricioiu (Zoraide), William Matteuzzi (Ricciardo), Alastair Miles (Ircano), Della Jones (Zomira), Paul Nilon (Ernesto), Carol Smith (Fatima), Alice Coote (Elmira), Toby Spence (Zamorre)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, David Parry
An exemplary performance — More…
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Rossini: Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra
Jennifer Larmore (Elisabetta), Bruce Ford (Leicester), Majella Cullagh (Matilde), Maneula Custer (Enrico), Antoninio Siragusa (Norfolk), Colin Lee (Guglielmo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Giuliano Carella
Rossini wrote Elizabeth, Queen of England for the star-studded San Carlo Opera in Naples in 1815. The plot is a verse reduction of a halfremembered drama by an Italian advocate out of an entertaining... — More…
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Mozart The Supreme Decorator
Diana Montague (soprano), Majella Cullagh (soprano), Elizabeth Futral (soprano)
Hanover Band, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Massenet: Le Portrait de Manon - Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été
Volker Krafft, ZhengZhong Zhou (baritone), Susana Gaspar (soprano), Hanna Hipp (mezzo-soprano), Pablo Bemsch (tenor)
Southbank Sinfonia, Geoffrey Paterson
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Mercadante: I Normanni a Parigi (highlights)
Judith Howarth (Berta), Barry Banks (Odone), Katarina Karnéus (Osvino), Riccardo Novaro (Ordamante), Graeme Broadbent & Aled Hall
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra, Stuart Stratford
[Barry Banks's] incisive voice has the necessary agility...His vocal weight is enough for the more dramatic scenes...Karnéus brings flexibility to Osvino and her pleasing mezzo provides an attractive... — More…
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Meyerbeer: L'esule di Granata (highlights)
Manuela Custer (Almanzor), Mirco Palazzi (Sulemano), Laura Claycomb (Azema), Paul Austin Kelly (Alamar), Brindley Sherratt (Ali), Ashley Catling (Omar)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Giuliano Carella
Opera Rara pull out all the stops — More…
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Entre nous: Celebrating Offenbach
Cassandre Berthon (soprano), Alexandra Sherman (contralto), Laura Claycomb (soprano), Mark Stone (baritone), Elizabeth Vidal (soprano), Loïc Félix (tenor), Andre Cognet (baritone), Colin Lee (tenor), Mark Wilde (tenor), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Diana Montague (soprano), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Alastair...
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