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Special offer. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Raffaella Angeletti (Butterfly), Massimiliano Pisapia (Pinkerton), Claudio Sgura (Sharpless), Annunziata Vestri (Suzuki), Nino Batatunashvili (Kate Pinkerton), Thomas Morris (Goro)
Fondatione Orchestra Regionale Delle Marche, Daniele Callegari, Pier Luigi Pizzi
a very moving, intelligent show...Pisapia is a good Pinkerton, going from vaguely stupid and callow, to being in love with the idea of love, to sorrow and regret. His voice is hearty and reliable...Claudio... —
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Capriccio
Renée Fleming (Countess), Bo Skovhus (Count), Michael Schade (Flamand), Markus Eiche (Olivier), Angelika Kirchschlager (Clairon), Kurt Rydl (La Roche)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Christoph Eschenbach
Kurt Rydl crowns a fine stage career with a gloriously eccentric impersonation of La Roche...The singing honours belong entirely to Angelika Kirchschlager as Clairon. —
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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Patrizia Ciofi (Leila), Dmitry Korchak (Nadir), Dario Solari (Zurga), Roberto Tagliavini (Nourabad)
Orchestra, Coro e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo, Gabriele Ferro
[Ciofi's] clear, incisive soprano catches Bizet's floating line and liquid coloratura with fluent ease, and she seems a touch mature only in close-up - alongside the youthful Dmitry Korchak,... —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Due Foscari
Plácido Domingo (Francesco Foscari), Francesco Meli (Jacopo Foscari), Anna Pirozzi (Lucrezia Contarini), Chiara Isotton (Pisana), Andrea Concetti (Jacopo Loredano), Edoardo Milletti (Barbarigo)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Michele Mariotti, Alvis Hermanis (dir.)
Even if he still sounds like a tenor singing in his lower range rather than a true baritone, Doming’s Artistic commitment remains exceptional, and vocally this is a remarkable achievement at... —
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
Maria Kochetkova & Davit Karapetyan
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra & San Francisco Ballet, Martin West
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It’s fascinating viewing, by turns enchanting and disquieting, but you might, as I did, find your eye simply being drawn back to Goerne. He sings the cycle now with a new and powerful tragic... —
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It is an extraordinary work, weird and lovable…The Dresden Staatskapelle is, as always, a wonder to hear and to behold…though the assembled audience goes wild at the end, [Thielemann] seems... —
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Schumann: The Complete Symphonies and Discovering Schumann
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
