Opus Arte
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Offer,
Cavalli: Ercole Amante Luca Pisaroni (Ercole), Veronica Cangemi (Iole), Anna Bonitatibus (Giunone), Jeremy Ovenden (Hyllo), Anna Maria Panzarella (Deianira), Marlin Miller (Licco), Umberto Chiummo (Nettuno/Tevere/Spirit of Eutyro), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Bellezza/Venere), Johannette Zomer (Cinzia/Parsitea/Spirit of Clerica),...
This is a ravishing production in every department - scenery, stage effects, costumes, dancing, acting and music. Luca Pisaroni is an assured and vigorous Hercules...but it is Cavalli's women... — More…
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Opera, October 2011, Recording of the Month
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Verdi: Macbeth
RecommendedSimon Keenlyside (Macbeth), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Lady Macbeth), Raymond Aceto (Banquo), Dmitri Pittas (Macduff), Nigel Cliffe (Servant), Steven Ebel (Malcolm), Elisabeth Meister (Lady-in-Waiting) & Lukas Jakobski (Doctor)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio...
Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Massenet: Cendrillon
RecommendedDanielle de Niese (Cendrillon), Kate Lindsey (Le Prince Charmant), Agnes Zwierko (Madame de la Haltière), Nina Minasyan (La Fée), Lionel Lhote (Pandolfe)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, John Wilson
Wilson’s conducting holds the score’s Gallic wit, dream-fantasy and sensuous romance in balance, conjuring delicious sounds from the London Philharmonic...Minasyan’s delicate, pinpoint accuracy... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th June 2020
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Mauro Peter (Tamino), Siobhan Stagg (Pamina), Roderick Williams (Papageno), Sabine Devieilhe (Queen of the Night), Mika Kares (Sarastro), Peter Bronder (Monostatos), Darren Jeffery (Speaker of the Temple), Christina Gansch (Papagena)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Julia Jones
This spirited performance, with good video direction by Jonathan Haswell, will give a great deal of pleasure. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Mauro Peter (Tamino), Siobhan Stagg (Pamina), Roderick Williams (Papageno), Sabine Devieilhe (Queen of the Night), Mika Kares (Sarastro), Peter Bronder (Monostatos), Darren Jeffery (Speaker of the Temple), Christina Gansch (Papagena)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Julia Jones
This spirited performance, with good video direction by Jonathan Haswell, will give a great deal of pleasure. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Miah Persson (Anne Trulove), Topi Lehtipuu (Tom Rakewell), Clive Bayley (Father Trulove), Matthew Rose (Nick Shadow), Susan Gorton (Mother Goose), Elena Manistina (Baba the Turk) & Graham Clark (Sellem)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)...
Full of colour and light, and brimming with wit, this is a production that lifts the performers...Lehtipuu conveys [Tom's] fresh-faced innocence, making his gradual demise all the more heart-breaking.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, DVD Choice
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Adam: Giselle
RecommendedNatalia Osipova (Giselle) & Carlos Acosta (Albrecht)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Boris Gruzin
This new Opus Arte disc now joins [the 2011] Bolshoi version at the very top of the list…indeed, this Royal Ballet performance may well sweep the board as the new Giselle of choice. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Tara Erraught (Octavian), Kate Royal (The Marschallin), Teodora Gheorghiu (Sophie), Lars Woldt (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), Michael Kraus (Herr von Faninal), Miranda Keys (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Christopher Gillett (Valzacchi) & Helene Schneiderman (Annina)
London Philharmonic Orchestra...
As one would expect from Jones, there's much that is striking in the staging...The LPO play with considerable virtuosity for Robin Ticciati, whose reading is clean and unsentimental. Straussians... — More…
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Opera, September 2015, Recording of the Month
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Dove: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Victoria Simmonds (Pinocchio), Jonathan Summers (Geppetto), Mary Plazas (Blue Fairy), Rebecca Bottone (Cricket/Parrot), Graeme Broadbent (Puppeteer/Ape-Judge/Ringmaster), Allan Clayton (Lampwick), Mark Wilde (Cat), James Laing (Fox/Coachman), Carole Wilson (Pigeon/Snail)
The Orchestra and Chorus...
…curiosity is aroused for adult and child alike from the first notes of Jonathan Dove's lavish and fantastical new opera genuinely for all age-groups. The scary moments are balanced by the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, DVD 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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