Opus Arte
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Viscera, Carmen, Afternoon of a Faun & Tchaikovsky pas de deux
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, October 2015
Laura Morera, Marianela Nuñez & Ryoichi Hirano, Sarah Lamb & Vadim Muntagirov, Marianela Nuñez, Carlos Acosta, Federico Bonelli & Matthew Golding, Iana Salenko & Steven McRae
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Emmanuel Plasson, Martin Yates
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Lianna Haroutounian (Leonora), Gregory Kunde (Manrico), Anita Rachvelishvili (Azucena), Vitaliy Bilyy (Luna), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Ferrando)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Richard Farnes, David Bösch
Kunde sings powerfully and reliably but without much seductiveness in his timbre…Haroutounian offers a classy, movingly acted Leonora but is a little short on Verdian authority…The star of the... —
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Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
Dinita Gohil (Viola), Kara Tointon (Olivia), Adrian Edmonson (Malvolio), Esh Alladi (Sebastian), Nicholas Bishop (Orsini), Vivien Parry (Maria), Giles Taylor (Antonio), Michael Cochrane (Sir Andrew Aguecheek)
Royal Shakespeare Company, Christopher Luscombe
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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... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
David Portillo (Tamino), Sofia Fomina (Pamina), Björn Bürger (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Caroline Wettergreen (Queen of the Night)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Glyndebourne Chorus, Ryan Wigglesworth; Barbe & Doucet
In the first half, André Barbe’s exquisitely drawn and then enlarged interiors magic the eye, and the cut-out guests that people the hotel are a delight. But when we reach the trials in the... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Idomeneo
Eric Cutler (Idomeneo), David Portillo (Idamante), Anett Fritsch (Ilia), Eleonora Buratto (Elettra), Benjamin Hulett (Arbace), Oliver Johnston (High Priest), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Voice of Neptune), Teatro Real Chorus & Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
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