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Cilea: L’Arlesiana
Stefano Antonucci (Baldassarre), Riccardo Angelo Strano (L’Innocente), Annunziata Vestri (Rosa Mamai), Mariangela Sicilia (Vivetta), Dmitry Golovnin (Federico), Christian Saitta (Marco), Valeriu Caradja (Metifio)
Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Coro Lirico Marchigiano V. Bellini, Francesco...
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Alfano: Risurrezione
Anne Sophie Duprels, Matthew Vickers, Leon Kim, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Francesco Lanzillotta, Rosetta Cucchi
The leading performances here, especially Duprels’s, are worth hearing and seeing, and the work, an archetypal example of full-on verismo, is an intriguing memory of one of opera’s historic... — More…
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Korngold: Die Tote Stadt, Op. 12
Stefan Vinke (Paul), Solveig Kringelborn (Marie / Mariette), Stephan Genz (Frank / Fritz), Christa Mayer (Brigitta), Eleonore Marguerre (Juliette), Julia Oesch (Lucienne), Gino Potente (Gaston), Shi Yijie (Victorin) & Mathias Schulz (Albert)
Eliahu Inbal (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi...
The lighting designer, Vincenzo Raponi, ensures that no expression goes unchecked on the faces of an uncommonly fine group of singers...[Kringelborn] makes her second entrance as a vision in... — More…
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Giordano, U: Fedora
Daniela Dessì (Fedora), Fabio Armiliato (Loris), Alfonso Antoniozzi (De Siriex), Daria Kovalenko (Olga)
Carlo Felice Theatre, Valerio Galli
[Dessì’s] performance displays powerful, authentically tangy tone, rock-solid technique and a touching stage presence. There’s some squalliness at the top of the voice, admittedly, but this... — More…
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Umberto Giordano: Siberia
Sonya Yoncheva (Stephana), Giorgi Sturua (Vassili), George Petean (Gléby), Caterina Piva (Nikona), Giorgio Misseri (Il Principe Alexis), Antonio Garés (Ivan), Orchestra e Coro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Noseda, Roberto Andò
It’s handsomely done in visual terms and works surprisingly well. But it ’s the artistry with which the piece is tackled that convinces one that Siberia is unfairly neglected: the richness of... — More…
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Puccini: Il Tabarro
Franco Vassallo (Michele), Angelo Villari (Luigi), María José Siri (Giorgetta), Anna Maria Chiuri (La Frugola), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli, Denis Krief (director)
This functional staging is doubtless similar to countless other Tabarros but its lack of glitz and gimmicks forces our attention onto some excellent musical and dramatic performances. Maria... — More…
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Strauss, R: Daphne
June Anderson (soprano), Roberto Saccà (tenor), Scott Mac Allister (tenor) & Daniel Lewis Williams (bass0
rchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Stefan Anton Reck (conductor) & Paul Curran (director)
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Puccini: La Bohème
Norma Fantini (Mimì), Massimiliano Pisapia (Rodolfo), Donata d’Annunzio Lombardi (Musetta), Gabriele Viviani (Marcello), Massimiliano Valleggi (Schaunard)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Puccini Festival & Children’s Choir of the Puccini Festival, Stewart Robertson (conductor) & Maurizio...
'La Bohème'…is without question [Puccini’s] greatest achievement. — More…
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Emily Magee (Minnie), Roberto Aronica (Dick Johnson), Claudio Sgura (Jack Rance)
Teatro di San Carlo, Juraj Valčuha
Aronica is a handsome Dick Johnson in every sense of the word; and the American Emily Magee is a Wagnerian-voiced Minnie who somehow bypasses the god-fearing naivety suggested in the libretto.... — More…
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Emily Magee (Minnie), Roberto Aronica (Dick Johnson), Claudio Sgura (Jack Rance)
Teatro di San Carlo, Juraj Valčuha
Aronica is a handsome Dick Johnson in every sense of the word; and the American Emily Magee is a Wagnerian-voiced Minnie who somehow bypasses the god-fearing naivety suggested in the libretto.... — More…
