C Major
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Anna Karenina – A Ballet By John Neumeier
Anna Laudere, Edvin Revazov, Ivan Urban, Aleix Martinez, Emilie Mazon, Hamburg Ballet, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Nathan Brock
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Special offer. Verdi: Nabucco
Leo Nucci (Nabucco), Bruno Ribeiro (Ismaele), Riccardo Zanellato (Zaccaria), Dimitra Theodossiou (Abigaille), Annamaria Chiuri (Fenena), Alessandro Spina (Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo), Mauro Buffoli (Abdallo), Cristina Giannelli (Anna)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Michele Mariotti
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Special offer. Schubert: Fierrabras D 796
Michael Schade (Fierrabras), Julia Kleiter (Emma), Benjamin Bernheim (Eginhard), Dorothea Röschmann (Florinda), Markus Werba (Roland), Georg Zeppenfeld (Charlemagne), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Maragond), Manuel Walser (Brutamonte)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingo Metzmacher
This is an almost perfect performance, both vocally and in its staging and acting…Charlemagne is taken by the young and magnificent bass-baritone Georg Zeppenfeld, and Fierrabras himself, son... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Claudio Sgura (Il Conte di Luna), Teresa Romano (Leonora), Mzia Nioradze (Azucena), Marcelo Alvarez (Manrico), Deyan Vatchkov (Ferrando), Cristina Giannelli (Ines), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Ruiz)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma
Large symbols...make an effective home for a serious Il Trovatore, precisely paced and balanced by Yuri Temirkanov...Especially notable is his handling of what one might term 'old' Verdi orchestral... —
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Arabella
Renée Fleming (Arabella), Thomas Hampson (Mandryka), Gabriela Beňačková (Adelaide), Albert Dohmen (Waldner), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Zdenka), Daniel Behle (Matteo), Derek Welton (Dominik), Benjamin Bruns (Elemer), Daniela Fally (Fiakermilli)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Fleming's is a nuanced characterisation, with the right Straussian bloom save for the Act II duet. I just don't believe that this is a young girl grown up fast in the face of feckless parents...Show-stealers... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
From the 2017 Salzburg Easter Festival
Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Vitalij Kowaljow (Wotan), Peter Seiffert (Siegmund), Anja Harteros (Sieglinde), Christa Mayer (Fricka), Georg Zeppenfeld (Hunding)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
A for effort for the production team – but the real interest of this release is musical. Thielemann’s fourth recording of this opera assembles his strongest cast yet…Harteros is a clearly projected,... —
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Best of Verdi Arias
Staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi
Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez, Francesco Meli, Dimitra Theodossiou & Giacomo Prestia
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma
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Putting the music aside for one moment, consider the pinpoint precision of its visuals: we see the sumptuous gold decorations of Dresden's restored Semperoper; the golden polish (plus the odd... —
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Mozart: Davide Penitente
Christiane Karg (soprano), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor), Bartabas (choreographer)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Salzburger Bachchor, Académie équestre de Versailles, Marc Minkowski
The musical performance is good, the equine ballet is graceful —
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Beethoven's Ninth: Symphony for the World
Teodor Currentzis, Tan Dun, Gabriel Prokofiev, Yutaka Sado, Armand Diangienda, Paul Whittaker, Isaac Karabtchevsky
