C Major
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Coming soon. Verdi: Nabucco
Anna Netrebko (Abigaille), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Nabucco, Galeano Salas (Ismaele), Christian van Horn ( Zaccaria), Francesca di Sauro (Fenena), Gabriele Sagona (Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo), Carlo Bosi (Abdallo), Daniela Cappiello (Anna), Arena di Verona, Stefano Poda, Pinchas Steinberg
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New. Mozart: Così fan tutte
Federica Lombardi (Fiordiligi), Emily D’Angelo (Dorabella), Filipe Manu (Ferrando), Peter Kellner (Guglielmo), Kate Lindsey (Despina), Christopher Maltman (Don Alfonso), Orchester und Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
Not all of it convinces, but what is undeniable is the brilliance of the performance, acted with breathtaking physicality and quite wonderfully sung...As a whole, it's both provocative and flawed,... —
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Verdi: Falstaff
Michael Volle (Falstaff), Alfredo Daza (Ford), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Nadine Sierra (Nannetta), Daniela Barcellona (Mistress Quickly), Francesco Demuro (Fenton)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Mario Martone
Purists should look away now, but I found this production by Mario Martone tremendous fun...Volle inhabits the title role with absolute conviction: he is laugh-out-loud funny, his vocal delivery... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
David Butt Philip (Lohengrin), Malin Bystrom (Elsa), Anja Kampe (Ortrud), Martin Gantner (Friedrich von Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich der Vogler), Attila Mokus (Der Heerrufer des Königs)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann,Tiziano Mancini
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Yuja comes alive, it seems, only when she is on stage playing the piano, as is vividly demonstrated by the documentary and the complete performances of Rhapsody in Blue and the Ravel G major... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Pene Pati (Mitridate), Ana Maria Labin (Aspasia), Angela Brower (Sifare), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Farnace), Sarah Aristidou (Ismene)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Satoshi Miyagi, Marc Minkowski
Vocal virtuosity, which is crucial in such a piece, is best exemplified in the title-role by rising star tenor Pene Pati, who is up to every possible demand...Alert, lively playing from period-instrument... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Lucerne Festival, 4th September 2011
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
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Special offer. Handel: Serse
Gaëlle Arquez (Xerxes), Elizabeth Sutphen (Romilda), Lawrence Zazzo (Arsamene), Louise Alder (Atalanta), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Amastre), Thomas Faulkner (Elviro), Brandon Cedel (Ariodate)
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Constantinos Carydis, Tilmann Köhler
Köhler stages the emotional rollercoaster of the first two acts around a huge dining table…The idea of the broken feast perfectly captures the disruptive nature of Xerxes’s tyranny…Arquez is... —
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New Year‘s Concert - Teatro La Fenice 2024
Eleonora Buratto (soprano), Fabio Sartori (tenor), Teatro La Fenice (opera company), Alfonso Caiani, Ballet School of the Teatro La Scala Academy, Frédéric Olivieri, Fabio Luisi
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Ludovic Tézier (Macbeth), Martina Serafin (Lady Macbeth), Vitalij Kowaljow (Banco), Saimir Pirgu (Macduff)
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Giampaolo Bisanti, Christof Loy
This is a Macbeth that seems to spin directly out of the heat-oppressed brain of its main protagonist...[Tézier is] undoubtedly the star here, providing a stream of elegant phrasing and fine... —
