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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Yusif Eyvazov (Andrea Chénier), Anna Netrebko (Maddalena de Coigny), Luca Salsi (Carlo Gérard), Annalisa Stroppa (Bersi), Mariana Pentcheva (La comtesse de Coigny)
Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Mario Martone
Netrebko’s Maddalena offers a blend of conviction and artifice. She’s distinguished in terms of her endless supply of lovely tone and her shaping of individual phrases, and on that level, rather... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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a terrific memento of a marvellous concert...The performance of the New World...is out of the top drawer, with the same outstanding qualities as their audio recording....Nelsons makes the Symphony... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Puccini: La Bohème
Irina Lungu (Mimì), Giorgio Berrugi (Rodolfo), Kelebogile Besong (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Benjamin Cho (Schaunard), Gabriele Sagona (Colline), Matteo Peirone (Benoît/Alcindoro), Cullen Gandy (Parpignol)
Teatro Regio di Torino, Gianandrea Noseda, Àlex Ollé
The voices could be more beautiful but it’s hard to think of a modern-dress production of La bohème that more perfectly captures the rhythm of the city in Puccini’s youthful Parisian romance…On... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Saimir Pirgu (Ernani), Guanqun Yu (Elvira), Franco Vassallo (Don Carlo), Goran Jurić (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Lotte de Beer, Enrique Mazzola
Singing is what makes any Ernani recording or video, and conductor Enrique Mazzola lays a taut, solid foundation with a Verdian sensibility to the often expansive phrasing...Guanqun Yu (Elvira)... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Holten says he’s keen to steer clear of the Spanish clichés on the one hand, and to examine Carmen as a real person on the other…It’s no earth-shattering insight but it does form the basis for... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Dona Nobis Pacem – A Ballet By John Neumeier
Aleix Martinez, Xue Lin, Alexandr Trusch, Ida Praetorius, Anna Laudere, Madoka Sugai, Jacopo Bellussi, Edvin Revazov, Hamburg Ballet (ballet company), Ensemble Resonanz (chamber ensemble), John Neumeier (choreographer), Holger Speck
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Performances & Documentaries
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Special offer. Massenet: Don Quichotte
Gábor Bretz, David Stout, Anna Goryachova,
Wiener Symphoniker, Daniel Cohen, Mariame Clément
Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Pene Pati (Mitridate), Ana Maria Labin (Aspasia), Angela Brower (Sifare), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Farnace), Sarah Aristidou (Ismene)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Satoshi Miyagi
Vocal virtuosity, which is crucial in such a piece, is best exemplified in the title-role by rising star tenor Pene Pati, who is up to every possible demand...Alert, lively playing from period-instrument... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Vienna Philharmonic: The Exclusive Subscription Concert Series - Zubin Mehta & Martha Argerich
Schumann: Piano Concerto & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Martha Argerich (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Performance & Documentaries
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
RecommendedAleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Àlvarez (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Antonello Ceron (Roderigo), Mikhail Petrenko (Lodovico)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
Otello is played by Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is tremendous in all respects. His Desdemona is the lovely Marina Poplavskaya...an expert in suffering. Carlos Àlvarez's Iago and Stephen Costello's... —
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Building a Library, February 2012, First Choice (DVD & Blu-ray)
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