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Handel: Ariodante Ann Hallenberg (Ariodante), Laura Cherici (Ginevra), Marta Vandoni Iorio (Dalinda), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Polinesso), Carlo Lepore (Re di Scozia), Zachary Stanis (Lucranio) & Vittorio Prato (Odoardo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
This is a very impressively sung DVD set of Ariodante, led by Ann Hallenberg in the castrato title-role, who manages her complex divisions with aplomb. Laura Cherici, Ariodante's beloved Ginevra,... — More…
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Donizetti: La Favorite
Veronica Simeoni (Leonor), Celso Albelo (Fernand) & Mattia Olivieri (Alphonse)
Valdes’s direction is pretty static, betraying a lack of experience staging opera, but there are some reliable vocal performances to enjoy. Mezzo Veronica Simeoni copes well with her key aria... — More…
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Galuppi: L’Inimico delle Donne Anna Maria Panzarella (Agnesina), Liesbeth Devos (Xunchia), Priscille Laplace (Kam-sì), Federica Carnevale (Zyda), Filippo Adami (Zon-zon), Alberto Rinaldi (Geminiano), Juri Gorodezki (Ly-lam) & Daniele Zanfardino (Si-sin)
Opera Royal de Wallonie, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) &...
This eighteenth-century premonition of The Mikado is a delight...The cast is good, though there's only one star: Anna Maria Panzarella (Agnesina) does the tomboy thing terribly well and as she... — More…
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Rolla: Three Duets for Violin and viola, Op. 15
Salvatore Accardo (violin) & Luigi Alberto Bianchi (viola)
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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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Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Mariella Devia (Elisabetta), Sonia Ganassi (Sara), Stefan Pop (Roberto), Mansoo Kim (Duke of Nottingham), Alessandro Fantoni (Lord Cecil), Claudio Ottino (Sir Gualtiero Raleigh), Matteo Armanino (A page), Loris Purpura (A servant of Nottingham)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Teatro Carlo Felice,...
Without the distractions of Regietheater or intrusive producer concepts, this performance and staging gets to the heart of Donizetti’s last Elizabethan opera. — More…
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Mayr: Che originali! & Donizetti: Pigmalione
Bruno de Simone (Don Febeo), Chiara Amarù (Donna Aristea), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Don Carolino), Angela Nisi (Donna Rosina), , Antonino Siragusa (Pigmalione) & Aya Wakizono (Galatea); Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Gianluca Capuano, Roberto Catalano
Donizetti was just 19 when he composed Pigmalione and it was only premiered in 1960. Frankly the pupil out-masters his teacher…Siragusa is magnificent as Pygmalion, begging the gods to bring... — More…
