Opus Arte
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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges
Alain Vernhes, Martial Defontaine, François Le Roux, Serghei Khomov, Sandrine Piau, Anna Shafajinskaja & Sir Willard White
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir of De Nederlandse Opera, Stéphane Denève
Director-designer Laurent Pelly's quirkily stylish costumes and Chantal Thomas's mobile giant playing-cards rule this lavish Amsterdam production of Prokofiev's fairy-tale satire. The spectacle... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, DVD Choice
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Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Giorgio Zancanaro (Guido di Monforte), Enzo Capuano (Il sire di Bethune), Chris Merritt (Arrigo), Cheryl Studer (Elena)
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
it is Muti who, conducting tautly, ensures that this live performance carries high drama, with the orchestra too playing splendidly...the production is straightforward, with no crazy impositions... — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème
Teodor Ilincai (Rodolfo), Hibla Gerzmava (Mimì), Gabriele Viviani (Marcello), Inna Dukach (Musetta), Kostas Smoriginas (Colline), Jacques Imbrailo (Schaunard), Jeremy White (Benoit), Donald Maxwell (Alcindoro)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Andris Nelsons (conductor)...
In every sense this Boheme glows...Teodor Ilincai is a splendid Rodolfo...radiating Italian lyricism and boyish good nature. Hibla Gerzmava is a gorgeous Mimi...Inna Dukach is a splendid Musetta...On... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, DVD Choice
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), David Butt Philip (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Simon Neal (Don Pizarro, Amanda Forsythe (Marzelline), Robin Tritschler (Jaquino), Egils Siliņš (Don Fernando)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano, Tobias Kratzer
The production itself is a controversial one...Few complaints about the musical performance, which is distinguished from the point of view of Covent Garden’s chorus and orchestra as well as... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Kenneth MacMillan's Anastasia
RecommendedMusic by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Bohuslav Martinů
Natalia Osipova (Anastasia/Anna Anderson), Marianela Nuñez (Mathilde Kschessinska), Federico Bonelli (Kschessinska’s Partner), Edward Watson (The husband), Thiago Soares (Rasputin), Christina Arestis (Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna), Christopher Saunders (Tsar Nicholas Ii)
Orchestra of the Royal...
This new recording preserves for posterity a performance by the Russian ballerina Natalia Osipova. She gives a searing account of the role… it will be an essential purchase for the Osipova’s... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Britten: Peter Grimes
John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...
[Grimes is] no tough fisherman but a seedy inadequate cringing from the local teenagers, and suggesting all too contemporary abuse problems. John Graham-Hall evokes his contorted inner life... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Sarah Connolly (Lucretia), Christopher Maltman (Tarquinius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca), Mary Nelson (Lucia), Leigh Melrose (Junius), Clive Bayley (Collatinus), Orla Boylan (Female Chorus) & John Mark Ainsley (Male Chorus)
English National Opera, Paul Daniel (conductor) & David McVicar...
The main cast delivers a superlative response from start to finish, headed by baritone Christopher Maltman's bull-like Tarquinius and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly's harrowingly intense Lucretia...Top-flight... — More…
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Opera, April 2014, Recording of the Month
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Puccini: Turandot
Lise Lindstrom (Turandot), Marco Berti (Calaf), Eri Nakamura (Liu), Raymond Aceto (Timur)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Henrik Nánási (conductor) & Andrei Serban (director)
Serban's galvanically colourful staging has survived with remarkable vigour...Lindstrom is pretty much the ideal Ice Princess: her voice one of steely intensity...Berti as Calaf has a clarion... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, DVD Choice
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Puccini: Turandot
Lise Lindstrom (Turandot), Marco Berti (Calaf), Eri Nakamura (Liu), Raymond Aceto (Timur)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Henrik Nánási (conductor) & Andrei Serban (director)
Serban's galvanically colourful staging has survived with remarkable vigour...Lindstrom is pretty much the ideal Ice Princess: her voice one of steely intensity...Berti as Calaf has a clarion... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo (Riccardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Renato), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), William Elvin (Silvano), Gwynne Howell (Samuele), Paul Hudson (Tom), Francis Egerton (Un Giudice), John Carr (Un servo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,...
Abbado motivates this traditional Otto Schenk staging using the Swedish setting. Domingo is a marvellously vivid Gustavo, Cappuccilli an implacable Anckarström, while Grist steals the soprano... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, DVD of the Month
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