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Verdi: Macbeth
Giuseppe Altomare (Macbeth), Dimitra Theodossiou (Lady Macbeth), Giorgio Giuseppini (Banquo), Dario Di Vietri (Macduff), Ernesto Petti (Malcolm), Valeria Sepe (Lady-in-waiting)
Orchestra Filarmonica del Piemonte & Schola Cantorum San Gregorio Magno, Giuseppe Sabbatini (conductor) &...
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Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Krassimira Stoyanova (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jessica Pratt (Zerbinetta), AJ Glueckert (Bacchus), Markus Werba (Ein Musiklehrer), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti, Matthias Hartmann
Gatti conducts the score with evident affection, his account unrushed and expansive, moving in the Opera’s overture and achieving a noble sense of grandeur in the final minutes. — More…
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Valeria Sepe (Nedda), Angelo Villari (Canio), Davide Cecconi (Tonio), Matteo Mezzaro (Beppe), Leon Kim (Silvio); Orchestra a Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Valerio Galli
This is an enjoyable, effective performance of Leoncavallo’s work. Angelo Villari is a powerful singer, with impressive ringing tone, even if he doesn’t quite command the feral strength one... — More…
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Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Bruno de Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Francesca Longari (Lauretta), Anna Maria Chiuri (Zita), Dave Monaco (Rinuccio), Costanza Fontana (Nella), Antonio Garés (Gherardo), Giada Frasconi (La Ciesca), Francesco Venuti (Betto di Signa), Eugenio Di Lieto (Simone)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,...
Bruno de Simone is an amiable, bespectacled Schicchi who could win anyone around with his mellow voice and floral shirt. He sparks off nicely against Anna Maria Chiuri, an unusually young ‘vecchia’... — More…
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Verdi: Otello
Stuart Neill (Otello), Jessica Nuccio (Desdemona), Roberto Frontali (Jago), Tamta Tarieli (Emilia), Manuel Pierattelli (Roderigo), Seung Pil Choi (Lodovico), Giacomo Medici (Montano), Franco Di Girolamo (A Herald)
Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche, Riccardo Frizza
Neill is tireless as Otello, the voice and diction clear throughout and the stamina impressive. Much of his acting is thoroughly rudimentary but he rises to a moving 'Niun me tema'...[Nuccio]... — More…
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Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Krassimira Stoyanova (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jessica Pratt (Zerbinetta), AJ Glueckert (Bacchus), Markus Werba (Ein Musiklehrer), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti, Matthias Hartmann
Gatti conducts the score with evident affection, his account unrushed and expansive, moving in the Opera’s overture and achieving a noble sense of grandeur in the final minutes. — More…
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Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
Giusepina Piunti (Margared), Guylaine Girard (Rozenn), Eric Martin-Bonnet (Le Roi d’Ys), Sébastien Guèze (Mylio), Werner Van Mechelen (Karnac), Léonard Graus (Saint Corentin) & Marc Tissons (Jahel)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Patrick Davin
The chorus could be bigger and better, but there's punchy conducting from Patrick Davin. It's not as good as the classic versions by André Cluytens and Pierre Dervaux, but there's no mistaking... — More…
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Salieri: Falstaff
Pierre-Yves Pruvot (Sir John Falstaff), Salomé Haller (Mistress Ford), Simon Edwards (Ford), Nigel Smith (Slender), Hjördis Thébault (Mistress Slender), Raimonds Spogis (Bardolf), Liliana Faraon (Betty)
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Les Chantres de la Chapelle, Jean-Claude Malgoire
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Italian Operatic Overtures Vol. 1: The 18th Century
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Camerata del Titano, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini, I Turchini, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, Orchestra Sinfonica N, Federico Maria Sardelli, Jean-Claude Malgoire,...
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