Arthaus Musik
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Strauss, R: Feuersnot
Nicola Beller Carbone (Diemut), Dietrich Henschel (Kunrad), Alex Wawiloff (Schweiker von Gundelfingen) & Ruben Amoretti (Ortolf Sentlinger)
Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus of the Teatro Massimo, Gabriele Ferro (conductor) & Emma Dante (stage director)
Ferro's conducting is perfectly decent, while there's lively work from the children's chorus especially, giving the lie to the idea that their part is too difficult to be practicable. It's difficult... —
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Verdi: Aida
Maria Chiara (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radames), Ghena Dimitrova (Amneris), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis), Paata Burchuladze (Il Re di Egitto), Francesca Garbi (Una Sacerdotessa), Ernesto Gavazzi (Un Messaggero)
Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel (conductor)...
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Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Placido Domingo, Eva Marton, Matteo Manuguerra, Ludmila Semtschuk, Kurt Rydl, Margarita Lilova
Orchestra and Chorus of the Wiener Staatsoper, Adam Fischer (conductor) & Filippo Sanjust (director)
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Kirov Classics
Altynai Asylmuratova, Konstantin Zaklinsky, Sergei Vikharev, Yelena Yevteeva, Eldar Aliev, Lyubov Kunakova, Farukh Ruzimatov, Larissa Lezhnina, Yelena Pankova, Yulia Makhalina, Igor Zelensky
Kirov Corps de Ballet & Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Victor A Fedotov
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Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
sung in German as 'Die heimliche Ehe'
Josef Greindl (Geronimo), Erika Köth (Carolina), Lisa Otto (Elisetta), Patricia Johnson (Fidalma), Barry Mcdaniel (Graf Robinsone) & Donald Grobe (Paolino)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lorin Maazel (conductor) & Gustav Rudolf Sellner (stage director)
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Maestro or Mephisto: The Real Georg Solti
A film by Andy King-Dabbs
featuring Plácido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Angela Gheorghiu, Kiri Te Kanawa, Murray Perahia, Lady Valerie Solti and many more
Georg Solti
Solti himself emerges with screen-crackling vigour both justifying and rubbishing the title Maestro or Mephisto. True, those vulpine features and glittering eyes do suggest the Demon King and... —
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Solti Centenary Concert
Live recording from Symphony Center, Chicago, 2012
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), René Pape (bass), Tereza Gevorgyan (soprano), Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Gòmez-Ortiz (tenor) & Ross Ramgobin (baritone)
Members of the Georg Solti Accademia & World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev
In one sense, this is as much a record of an occasion as of a concert, though the music-making is top class throughout...the high point here is probably the quartet from Rigoletto...quite a... —
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Recorded towards the end of the great German baritone's career, one can only sit in wonder at his vocal mastery and penetrating insight as he takes us on the Miller's lovelorn journey. —
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Pergolesi: Il Prigionier Superbo & La Serva Padrona
Antonio Lozano (Sostrate), Maria Rodrìguez Cusì (Rosmene), Marina de Liso (Metalce), Ruth Rosique (Ericlea), Marina Comparato (Viridate), Giacinta Nicotra (Micisda), Alessandra Marianelli (Serpina), Carlo Lepore (Uberto), Jean Meningue (Vespone)
Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado...
The winner here...is La serva padrona...there's bags of energy not only from the two singers but also from the excellent mute part of the servant Vespone...Marianelli is a sharp-witted, pert-voiced... —
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There can be no question that the Cleveland Orchestra play superbly throughout and that Welser-Möst is every inch the master interpreter. He directs a very grand view of Bruckner's great work.... —
