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Nicola Porpora: L'Angelica
Teresa Iervolino (Orlando), Paola Valentina Molinari (Medoro), Ekaterina Bakanova (Angelica), Gaia Petrone (Licori), Sergio Foresti (Titiro), Barbara Massaro (Tirsi)
La Lira di Orfeo, Federico Maria Sardelli, Gianluca Falaschi
Graced by the participation of dancers, director/designer Gianluca Falaschi’s attractive staging mixes ancient and modern with wit; intelligently acted, it is also very capably sung...the period-orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Vive Verdi!
French Rarities and Discoveries
Orchestra of Teatro Comunale Di Bologna, Ludovic Tézier, Jacobo Ochoa, Pietro Bolognini, Pilar Mezzadri Corona, Orchestra Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Chorus of Teatro Regio Di Parma, Francesco Maria Parazzoli, Roberto Abbado
It is exciting to hear Ludovic Tézier singing Macbeth in French...Here’s a baritone with an instinct for the declamatory and expressive style that Verdi demanded for the role, who nevertheless... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Opera Choice
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Mascagni: L’amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Korngold: Violanta
Annemarie Kremer (Violanta), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Simone Trovai), Norman Reinhardt (Alfonso), Peter Sonn (Giovanni Bracca), Soula Parassidis (Bice), Anna Maria Chiuri (Barbara); Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio Torino, Pinchas Steinberg, Pier Luigi Pizzi
Korngold’s score has one foot in the world of Puccini’s Trittico and another already edging towards Hollywood, particularly in the love-duet for the eponymous heroine and the man she’d originally... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite
Annalisa Stroppa (Léonor de Guzman), Javier Camarena (Fernand), Florian Sempey (Alphonse XI), Evgeny Stavinsky (Balthazar), Edoardo Milletti (Don Gaspar)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Donizetti Opera and Coro dell’Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Valentina Carrasco, Riccardo Frizza
Javier Camarena is exemplary as Fernand, every inch the bel canto tenor in his celebrated final act aria ‘Ange si pur’. Florian Sempey’s Alphonse is a gravel-voiced villain.. Annalisa Stroppa’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Opera Choice
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Francesco Cavalli: Il Xerse
Carlo Vistoli (Xerse), Ekaterina Protsenki (Amastre), Gaia Petrone (Arsamene), Carolina Lippo (Romilda), Dioklea Hoxha (Adelanta), Carlo Allemano (Ariodate), Nicolo Donini (Aristone), Nicolo Balducci (Periarco), Aco Biscevix (Elviro), Mario Fumarola (Cupido), Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo, Ferderico...
this enterprising recording can be recommended to lovers of Baroque opera. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Steffani: Baccanali
Nicolò Donini (Atlante), Riccardo Angelo Strano (Bacco / Tirsi), Barbara Massaro (Driade), Vittoria Magnarello (Celia), Paola Leoci (Clori), Elena Caccamo (Arminta), Chiara Manese (Fileno), Yasushi Watanabe (Ergasto)
Ensemble Cremona Antiqua, Antonio Greco
Not a gripping drama, but entertaining in its way. The music includes da capo arias, dances such as the gavotte and the gigue, and a French overture to introduce the proceedings…Vittoria Magnarello... — More…
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