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Verdi: Requiem
Julianna Di Giacomo (soprano), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), Vittorio Grigolo (tenor), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)
LA Philharmonic & LA Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel
The performance is at its best in the contributions of the four soloists. US soprano Julianna Di Giacomo brings vibrant tone and plenty of personal commitment to the top line...DeYoung supplies... —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Leo Nucci (Guido di Monforte), Dario Russo (Il Sire di Bethune), Andrea Mastroni (Il Conte Vaudemont), Fabio Armiliato (Arrigo), Giacomo Prestia (Giovanni da Procida), Daniela Dessi (Elena), Adriana di Paola (Ninetta), Raoul d'Eramo (Danieli), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Tebaldo), Alessandro Battiato...
The singing and musicianship here is of a high standard and Zanetti conducts with verve...Certain aspects of Pier Luigi Pizzi’s production are good while others are somewhat disappointing. —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Due Foscari
Leo Nucci (Francesco Foscari), Roberto De Biasio (Jacopo Foscari), Tatiana Serjan (Lucrezia Contarini), Roberto Tagliavini (Jacopo Loredano)
Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Parma, Donato Renzetti
Lee’s production of I due Foscari, set against a simple curved backdrop and beautifully costumed, works best on screen...with Nucci giving a baritonal masterclass in the title role, Tatiana... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Corsaro
Bruno Ribeiro (Corrado), Andrea Papi (Giovanni), Irina Lungo (Medora), Luca Salsi (Seid), Silvia dalla Benetta (Gulnara), Gregory Bonfatti (Selimo), Angelo Villari (Un eunoco/Uno schiavo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Carlo Montanaro
It's simple but stylish and lavishly costumed...Silvia Dalla Benetta...quite steals the show as Gulnara...Plenty of good music and piratical heroics make this traditional staging eminently watchable. —
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Thielemann keeps a firm grip on dynamic levels – ppp really means ppp – and the hushed playing is exquisitely rendered. The depth of sonority of horns, trombones and pizzicato double basses... —
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A skillfully danced, well directed and highly enjoyable version of Carmen. —
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Special offer. Bellini: Norma
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Gregory Kunde (Pollione), Ekaterina Gubanova (Adalgisa), Raymond Aceto (Oroveso), Ana Puche (Clotilde) & Francisco Vas (Flavio)
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Kevin Newbury (stage director)
[Radvanovsky’s] ‘Casta diva’ is dispatched with juicy flair, but it’s in the preceding lines tht the soprano really shows her mettle. Here Radvanovsky astutely establishes Norma’s divided loyalties... —
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Special offer. Puccini: La Bohème
Daniela Dessì (Mimì), Fabio Armiliato (Rodolfo), Alessandro Luongo (Marcello), Alida Berti (Musetta), Federico Longhi (Schaunard), Marco Spotti (Colline), Angelo Nardinocchi (Benoit/Alcindoro), Ugo Tarquini (Parpignol), Marco Simonelli (Sergente dei doganieri), Jacopo Bianchini (Un doganiere)
Orchestra...
Traditionally staged, this captivating performance does justice to Puccini’s masterpiece —
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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
Maria Guleghina (Turandot), Marco Berti (Calaf), Alexia Voulgaridou (Liù), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Timur), Javier Agulló (Altoum), Fabio Previati (Ping), Vincenç Esteve (Pang), Roger Padullés (Pong), Ventseslav Anastasov (Un mandarino)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
