Opus Arte
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New. Fairytale Ballets - Cinderella; Coppélia; the Sleeping Beauty; Swan Lake
Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko, Kristen McNally, Gary Avis, Bennet Gartside, Luca Acri, Claire Clavert, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels, Barry Wordsworth
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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers
William Morgan (Marco), Mark Nathan (Giuseppe), Ellie Laugharne (Gianetta), Sioned Gwen Davies (Tessa), Yvonne Howard (Duchess), Richard Suart (Duke), Ben McAteer (Don Alhambra), Catriona Hewitson (Casilda), Dan Shelvey (Luiz)
Scottish Opera, Derek Clark, Stuart Maunder
Bolder G&S stagings are available (live, if not on record), but this Gondoliers is fresh, affectionate and intensely musical proof that these masterly comic operas can still hit their mark,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Burnside brings out all the colours of Mompou's chromatic ornamentation, overlaying a firmly tonal or modal base, and is particularly adept, as in the Canço de la fira, at elucidating Mompou's... —
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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'. —
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Special offer. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Asmik Grigorian (Cio-Cio San), Joshua Guerrero (Pinkerton), Lauri Vasar (Sharpless), Hongni Wu (Suzuki), Ya-Chung Huang (Goro), Jeremy White (The Bonze)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Kevin John Edusei, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
If there are vocal imperfections – some pitch trouble on her entrance, though Grigorian is in good company there – they are soon forgotten by the intensity of the soprano’s delivery, and countless... —
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Korngold: Die Tote Stadt
Camilla Nylund (Marietta), Klaus Florian Vogt (Paul), Finnish National Opera, Mikko Franck
The USP here is Finnish soprano Camilla Nylund apparently in the form of her life, radiant and effortless as she consistently powers and floats above Korngold’s thrillingly noisy orchestra,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
RecommendedAlbert Dohmen, Ralf Lukas, Clemens Bieber, Andrew Shore, Gerhard Siegel, Kwangchul Youn, Hans-Peter König, Michelle Breedt, Edith Haller, Christa Mayer, Fionnuala McCarthy, Ulrike Helzel & Simone Schröder
Bayreuther Festspiele Orchestra, Christian Thielemann
Christian Thielemann must surely be counted amongst the finest current Wagner conductors, and this 2008 live Rheingold from Bayreuth shows why. It's paced perfectly, and he draws some fantastic... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Said treats every work on its own merits, in its own language. The personality and significance of each composer is subtly etched with remarkable skill...A gripping recital, tellingly designed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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New. Ballet To Broadway: Wheeldon Works
Akane Takada, William Bracewell, Marianela Nuñez, Lukas B. Brændsrød, Viola Pantuso, Lauren Cuthbertson, Calvin Richardson, Matthew Ball, Joseph Sissens, Francesca Hayward, Cesar Corrales, Koen Kessels
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Jukka Rasilainen (Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (König Heinrich), Samuel Youn (Der Heerrufer Des Königs), Bayreuth Festival, Andris Nelsons
The best singing comes from Annette Dasch’s Elsa, although her vibrato occasionally verges on unsteadiness; Georg Zeppenfeld’s mellow but light King Henry, short on low resonance; and Samuel... —
