C Major
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Special offer. Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
Evan Bowers (Carlo VII), Renato Bruson (Giacomo), Svetla Vassileva (Giovanna), Luigi Petroni (Delil), Maurizio Lo Piccolo (Talbot)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Bruno Bartoletti
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Special offer. Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
Evan Bowers (Carlo VII), Renato Bruson (Giacomo), Svetla Vassileva (Giovanna), Luigi Petroni (Delil), Maurizio Lo Piccolo (Talbot)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Bruno Bartoletti
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Francesco Meli (Riccardo), Vladimir Stoyanov (Renato), Kristin Lewis (Amelia), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Ulrica), Serena Gamberoni (Oscar), Filippo Polinelli (Silvano), Antonio Barbargallo (Samuel), Enrico Rinaldo (Tom)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Gianluigi Gelmetti
It's aptly cast - Francesco Meli's Riccardo with fine legato, Stoyanov an uncommonly civilised Renato whose remorse after the assassination is all the more credible, Samuel and Tom not overdone... —
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The Colón Ring: Wagner In Buenos Aires
A Film by Hans Christoph Von Bock
Linda Watson, Jukka Rasilainen, Leonid Zakhozhaev, Stig Andersen, Marion Ammann, Simone Schroder, Andrew Shore
unflinchingly honest in outlining the twists and turns of the production’s development and is fascinating to watch. Highly recommended. —
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Music is the language of the heart and soul
A portrait of Mariss Jansons
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Mariss Jansons
Most valuable is the footage of his father, conductor Arvid Jansons, and of his own early days as a Herbert von Karajan protege...Of Jansons's humanity and penetrating gifts as a conductor we... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Falstaff
Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Meg Page (Judith Schmid), Mistress Quickly (Yvonne Naef), Massimo Cavalletti (Ford), Eva Liebau (Nannetta), Javier Camarena (Fenton), Peter Straka (Dr. Cajus), Martin Zysset (Bardolfo), Davide Fersini (Pistola)
Orchester der Oper Zürich...
the conductor starts apparently quite steadily. But this lack of a certain flick and bounce is compensated for by the focus of Daniele Gatti...places on Verdi's radically forward-looking orchestration...The... —
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Christine Schäfer (soprano), Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann
it's a performance of great warmth, dignity and impressive power. Much of the visual interest is provided by the batonless Christian Thielemann, using his eyes and large, eloquent hands, almost... —
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Flute Concertos at Sanssouci
A Tribute to Frederick the Great
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) & Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Kammerakademie Potsdam
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Special offer. Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Roberto de Biasio (Arvino), Michele Pertusi (Pagano), Cristina Giannelli (Viclinda), Dimitra Theodossiou (Giselda), Roberto Tagliavini (Pirro), Valdis Jansons (Acciano), Francesco Meli (Oronte), Daniela Pini (Sofia)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Daniele Callegari
Pugelli’s production reveals a series of beautiful backdrops and the costumes are a hippy’s tie-die heaven, albeit rather more chic... The singing is forthright. Michele Pertusi’s bass provides... —
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Special offer. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Anita Rachvelishvili (Orfeo), Maite Alberola (Euridice), Auxiliadora Toledano (Amore)
Orquesta BandArt, Gordan Nikolić
Rachvelishvili is a natural performer with a beautifully full mezzo-soprano, but as yet a lightweight Gluckian. —
