Opus Arte
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Danielle de Niese (Rosina), Alessandro Corbelli (Dr Bartolo), Björn Bürger (Figaro), Taylor Stayton (Count Almaviva), Christophoros Stamboglis (Basilio) & Janis Kelly (Berta)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Enrique Mazzola (conductor) & Annabel Arden (director)
High-flying American tenor Taylor Stayton proves vocally agile and dramatically vital as Count Almaviva, with Danielle de Niese an entrancing Rosina…as for Alessandro Corbelli’s Bartolo, his... — More…
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Gianni Schicchi & The Miserly Knight
Sergei Leiferkus & Matilda Leyser, Alessandro Corbelli (Gianni Schicchi), Sally Matthews (Lauretta), Felicity Palmer (Zita), Massimo Giordano (Rinuccio), Adrian Thompson (Gherardo), Olga Schalaeva (Nella), Christopher Waite (Gherardino), Maxim Mikhailov II (Betto di Signa), Luigi Roni (Simone),...
Annabel Arden’s dark staging of Rachmaninov’s opera and her brilliantly funny view of Puccini’s comedy make for a perfect Glyndebourne evening. Sergei Leiferkus and Alessandro Corbelli are memorable... — More…
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Verdi: Otello
Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate (Cassio), Ramon Remedios (Rodrigo), Mark Beesley (Lodovico), Roderick Earle (Montano), Claire Powell (Emilia)
The Royal Opera & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Georg Solti
Sergei Leiferkus's dark Russian tone… suits Iago down to the ground. Kiri Te Kanawa's limpid tone makes her a near-ideal Desdemona… Plácido Domingo… is noble and heroic. — More…
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Offer,
Hildegard von Bingen in portrait A full performance of 'Ordo Virtutum' - arguably the oldest surviving opera - together with a documentary about Hildegard, including a dramatised biography starring Patricia Routledge.
Vox Animae, Evelyn Tubb, Michael Fields
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Saimir Pirgu: Il Mio Canto
Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Speranza Scappucci
Pirgu's timbre isn't quite Italianate but he sounds rather like Giuseppe di Stefano in the area from A flat to B flat above the stave - slightly strained but exciting too...The heroic ring in... — More…
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Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Recorded live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, March 2015
Sam Alexander (King of Navarre), Peter Basham (Gamekeeper), William Belchambers (Longaville), Edward Bennett (Berowne), Nick Haverson (Costard), Emma Manton (Jaquenetta), John Hodgkinson (Don Armado), Tunji Kasim (Dumaine)
Royal Shakespeare Company, Christopher Luscombe (director)
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Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
Bryan Hymel (Robert), Patrizia Ciofi (Isabelle), John Relyea (Bertram), Marina Poplavskaya (Alice), Nicolas Courjal (Alberti), David Butt Philip (Master of Ceremonies), Pablo Bemsch (Second Chevalier/Herald), Ashley Riches (Prince of Granada), Jihoon Kim (Fourth Chevalier/Priest), Jean-Francois Borras...
Meyerbeer's vocal writing demands virtuoso singing, and receives that here. Bryan Hymel hurls himself unstintingly at the title role, impossible high notes and all. Marina Poplavskaya suggests... — More…
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Cecilia Bartoli sings Mozart & Haydn
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Rameau: In Convertendo, grand motet Nicolas Rivenq, Sophie Daneman, Jeffrey Thompson & Olga Pitarch
Orchestra and Chorus of Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
The tendency to divide top honours in the high Baroque between Bach and Handel seems most unfair when Rameau is on the menu. What an astonishing musical imagination! The performance of the... — More…