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Special offer. Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
Vittoria Yeo (Giovanna), Luciano Ganci (Carlo VII), Vittorio Vitelli (Giacomo), Gabriele Mangione (Delil), Luciano Leoni (Talbot)
I Virtuosi Italiani, Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Ramón Tebar, Sasken Boddege, Peter Greenaway
[Vittoria Yeo is] a plucky Giovanna, if without Netrebko’s vocal glamour, a touch sour on occasion,. Luciano Ganci forces quite a lot as Carlo but it’s often an attractive voice, and solid baritone... —
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Erwin Schrott (Escamillo), Marina Poplavskaya (Micaëla)
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Marc Piollet
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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
Mlada Khudoley (Turandot), Manuel von Senden (Altoum), Michael Ryssov (Timur), Riccardo Massi (Calaf), Guanqun Yu (Liu)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Guanqun Yu's schoolgirl Liu, sporting beret and pigtails, is the pick of the cast. She delivers a beautifully affecting, 'Tu che di gel sei cinta'…Riccardo Massi sings attractively as Calaf,... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
Rebeka Lokar (Turandot), Jorge de León (Calaf), Erika Grimaldi (Liù), In-Sung Sim (Timur)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda, Stefano Poda
The show forges its own hallucinatory logic and looks stylish…[but] it sometimes feels as if the singers themselves are inconvenient bit-parts…Noseda will be missed at Turin, as this punchy... —
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A magnificent account of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony…[in] the devastating last movement, with its shatteringly dissonant climax, Thielemann left me a prostrate supplicant for mercy…seeing as well... —
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Best of Verdi Opera Choruses
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo, Nicola Luisotti, Yuri Temirkanov, Boris Brott
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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Genia Kühmeier (soprano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchstra (HR-Sinfonie Orchster), Paavo Järvi
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
Roberto Bolle, Misty Copeland, Antonino Sutera, Mick Zeni, Marco Agostino, Riccardo Massimi
Company & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Patrick Fournillier
