Opus Arte
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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... — 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…
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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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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
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Gounod: Faust
Michael Fabiano (Faust), Erwin Schrott (Mephistopheles), Irina Lungu (Marguerite)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Dan Ettinger, David McVicar
This is a top-flight cast. In a sensitive, intelligent and finely articulated interpretation, Michael Fabiano humanises the doddering old philosopher...Stealing a number of scenes is Erwin Schrott,... — More…
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Wagner: Rienzi
Torsten Kerl (Rienzi), Marika Schönberg (Irene), Daniela Sindram (Adriano), Richard Wiegold (Colonna), Stefan Heidemann (Orsini), Robert Bork (Cardinal Orvieto), Marc Heller (Baroncelli), Leonardo Neiva (Cecco del Vecchio) & Jennifer O’Loughlin (Peace Messenger)
Orchestre national du Capitole,...
Lavelli and conductor Steinberg make much sense of (at least) the personal drama of Wagner's grand Romantic opera...[Kerl, Sindram and Schonberg] pace themselves well; even with the blue pencil... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Anna Rose O’Sullivan (Clara), Vadim Muntagirov (The Prince), Marcelino Sambé (Hans-Peter / The Nutcracker), Gary Avis (Herr Drosselmeyer), Marianela Nuñez (The Sugar Plum Fairy)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth, Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov (choreographer), Marius Petipa,...
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Prokofiev: Cinderella
Marianela Nunez, Vadim Muntagirov, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels
Kessels conducts this score with an uncanny sense for insightful phrasing: in particular, his tempo choices and accenting are always right on target, and he manages to draw splendid playing... — More…
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Prokofiev: Cinderella
Marianela Nunez, Vadim Muntagirov, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels
Kessels conducts this score with an uncanny sense for insightful phrasing: in particular, his tempo choices and accenting are always right on target, and he manages to draw splendid playing... — More…
