C Major
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Offer,
Handel: Messiah Susan Gritton (soprano), Cornelia Horak (soprano), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Richard Croft (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone)
Ensemble Matheus & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
there are some penetrating ideas lurking behind the underlying premise, which in essence orbits around the moral, theological and familial fallout surrounding a suicide...the singing blazes... — More…
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Michael Schade (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass)
Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Thielemann generally favours lively tempos and a lightness of touch. Details are clear and he elicits a remarkable luminosity from the substantial forces, making this a deeply engaging account...The... — More…
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Andreas Schager (Max), Camilla Nylund (Agathe), Daniela Fally (Ännchen), Alan Held (Kaspar)
Wiener Staatsoper, Tomáš Netopil, Christian Räth
The pick of the cast, vocally, is soprano Camilla Nylund, who brings ample, shining tone and a finely sustained line to Agathe’s two solos. — More…
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Julie Fuchs (Adèle), Philippe Talbot (Le Comte Ory), Gaëlle Arquez (Isolier), Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Ragonde), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Rambaud)
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Les éléments, Louis Langrée, Denis Podalydès (director), Christian Lacroix (designer)
In this recent Paris staging, it is the second act which delights rather more than the first… The Opéra Comique’s Francophone cast is led by Julie Fuchs’s sweet-toned Countess… Talbot is excellent,... — More…
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Giacomo Prestia (Filippo II), Mario Malagnini (Don Carlo), Simone Piazzola (Rodrigo), Luciano Montanaro (Il Grande Inquisitore), Cellia Costea (Elisabetta di Valois), Alla Pozniak (Eboli), Irene Candelier (Tebaldo/Una Voce dal Cielo), Antonio Feltracco (Il Conte di Lerma/Un Araldo Reale)
Orchestra...
Malagnini's Carlo has a top and the ability to use it that Franco Corelli wouldn't have disowned, and his relationship with Cellia Costia's Elisabetta brings tears to the eyes, as does Alla... — More…
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Midsummer Night's Gala Grafenegg
Pretty Yende (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Harriet Krijgh (cello)
Tonkunstler Orchestra, Yutaka Sado
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Serena Malfi (Cenerentola), Juan Francisco Gatell (Ramiro), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Magnifico), Vito Priante (Dandini), Damiana Mizzi (Clorinda), Annunziata Vestri (Tisbe)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Alejo Pérez, Emma Dante
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Kristine Opolais (Tatyana), Lena Belkina (Olga), Artur Rucinski (Onegin), Dmitri Korchak (Lensky), Günther Groissböck (Gremin), Margarita Nekrasova (Filipyevna), Helene Schneiderman (Larina), Emilio Sanchez (Triquet), Toni Navarrate (Guillot), Aldo Heo (Captain), Simon Lim (Zaretsky)
Orquestra...
Opolais's physical grace and fine lyric-dramatic soprano would elsewhere embody the young and older Tatyana's; baritone Artur Rucinski phrases the Act 1 arioso better than anyone since Dmitri... — More…
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Gluck: Alceste
Dorothea Röschmann (Alceste), Charles Castronovo (Admète), Michael Nagy (High Priest of Apollo), Bayerische Staatsoper, Antonello Manacorda
The chorus and orchestra under Antonello Manacorda are fine, as is Tiziano Mancini’s video direction. — More…
