Arthaus Musik
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Bacchetti tends not to go in for blockbuster virtuoso repertoire, and the Liszt selection is tuneful and played with restrained expression, leading up Louis Diémer’s lovely Nocturne Op.15. Diémer... —
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Klaus Huber At Work
Klaus Huber, Katharina Rikus, Walter Grimmer, Max Engel, Hugo Noth, Michael Pattmann
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Puccini: Tosca
Fiorenza Cedolins (Floria Tosca), Marcelo Alvarez (Mario Cavaradossi) & Ruggero Raimondi (Il Barone Scarpia), Fabio Previati (Sagristano), Marco Spotti (Angelotti); Arena Di Verona, Daniel Oren, Hugo de Ana (dir.)
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Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato
Nicola Alaimo (Marcaniello), Elena Belfiore (Ascanio), Patrizia Biccirè (Nena), Jurgita Adamonyte (Nina), Barbara Di Castri (Luggrezia), David Alegret (Carlo), Laura Cherici (Vannella), Rosa Bove (Cardella), Filippo Morace (Don Pietro)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor) & Willy Landin...
The production...brilliantly updates the work to the 1950s. Its whole atmosphere is redolent of that great era in Italian cinema...The fast-paced comedy is perfectly placed - and ideally paced...Patrizia... —
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Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato
Nicola Alaimo (Marcaniello), Elena Belfiore (Ascanio), Patrizia Biccirè (Nena), Jurgita Adamonyte (Nina), Barbara Di Castri (Luggrezia), David Alegret (Carlo), Laura Cherici (Vannella), Rosa Bove (Cardella), Filippo Morace (Don Pietro)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor) & Willy Landin...
The production...brilliantly updates the work to the 1950s. Its whole atmosphere is redolent of that great era in Italian cinema...The fast-paced comedy is perfectly placed - and ideally paced...Patrizia... —
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Pergolesi: La Salustia
Vittorio Prato (Marziano), Serena Malfi (Salustia), Laura Polverelli (Giulia), Florin Cezar Ouatu (Alessandro) & Giacinta Nicotra (Albina)
Accademia Barocca De I Musici Italiani, Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Juliette Deschamps (stage director)
Deschamps's production is clear and visually handsome, with Vanessa Sannino's 18th-century costumes registering particularly vividly on Blu-ray. Shining vocally brightly are mezzo-soprano Laura... —
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette); Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, sung by Kühn’s Mixed Choir, Prague, Anton Guadagno (conductor) & Barbara Willis Sweete (director)
Romeo was Roberto Alagna’s finest role in the first half of his career, and the audio-visual documentation of his interpretation makes it entirely clear why he succeeded in winning over both... —
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Gala Mariinsky II
Live recording from Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, May 2, 2013
With Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Plácido Domingo, Alexei Markov, Anna Netrebko, Yevgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Semishkur (Opera), Olga Esina, Kim Kimin, Anastasia Kolegova, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alexander Sergeyev, Vladimir Shklyarov,...
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci
Live from Zurich Opera House, 2009
Fiorenza Cedolins (Nedda), José Cura (Canio), Carlo Guelfi (Tonio), Gabriel Bermúdez (Silvio), Boiko Zvetanov (Peppe), Paoletta Marrocu (Santuzza), José Cura (Turiddu), Cheyne Davidson (Alfio); Zurich Opera House, Stefano Ranzani, Grischa Asagaroff (dir.)
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Margaret Marshall (Fiordiligi), Ann Murray (Dorabella), Francisco Araiza (Ferrando), James Morris (Guglielmo), Sesto Bruscantini (Don Alfonso) & Kathleen Battle (Despina)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti (conductor) & Michael Hampe (director)
