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Shakespeare: Love’s Labours Won or Much Ado About Nothing
Recorded live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, March 2015
Sam Alexander (Don John), David Horovitch (Leonato), Edward Bennett (Benedick), Michelle Terry (Beatrice), Tunji Kasim (Claudio), Chris Nayak (Borachio), Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Hero) & Nick Haverson (Dogberry)
Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon Godwin (director)
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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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Verdi: Aida
Cheryl Studer (Aida), Dennis O’Neill (Radames), Luciana d’Intino (Amneris), Alexandru Agache (Amonasro), Robert Lloyd (Ramfis), Mark Beesley (King), Yvonne Barclay (High Priestess), John Marsden (Messager), Stage Director: Elijah Moshinsky
The Royal Opera Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal...
This DVD of a distinguished account of Verdi's grand opera from 1994 has a great deal to recommend it, yet in the end I'm not sure that it manages to avoid cliché of the sense that the work has... — More…
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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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Pratt's soprano has a very lively, glittering surface...pinpoint flickers of brilliance in Eva Dell'Acqua's 'Villanelle', a confident high E flat in Rossini's 'La fioraia fiorentina'. — More…
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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…
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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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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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Cecilia Bartoli sings Mozart & Haydn
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
Antony Bunsee, Guy Lewis, Jonathan Broadbent, Rowan Polonski, Greg Haiste, Hedydd Dylan, Avita Jay, Sarah Seggari, Zoe Lambert, Nicholas Prasad, Riad Richie, William Grint, Phillip Breen
