Ramón Vargas
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Mercadante: Il Proscritto
RecommendedRamón Vargas (Giorgio Argyll), Irene Roberts (Malvina Douglas), Elizabeth DeShong (Odoardo Douglas), Sally Matthews (Anna Ruthven), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Arturo Murray), Goderdzi Janelidze (Guglielmo Ruthven)
Britten Sinfonia, Opera Rara Chorus, Carlo Rizzi
Mercadante cocks an intelligent ear in the direction of a young Verdi. However, Mercadante is no faithful follower of fashion, as Carlo Rizzi, who rediscovered the opera in the Naples Conservatory... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Opera Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Recommendedde Grandis, Ganassi, Romero, Servile, Vargas
Hungarian Radio Choir, Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, Willi Humburg
Not everyone will approve, but there are ways in which this super-budget set of Il barbiere diSiviglia puts to shame just about every other version of the opera there has been. Those it may... —
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Building a Library, December 2001, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, First Choice
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar)
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Opera
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Otello), Cheryl Studer (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Ramón Vargas (Cassio), Michael Schade (Rodrigo), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Lodovico), Giacomo Prestia (Montano), Denyce Graves (Emilia)
Bastille Opera, Myung-Whun Chung
theatre, so Otello is a difficult opera to bring off out of it. For some years now, Domingo has been, on stage, the greatest Otello of our age. On record, though, he has had less success. Leiferkus... —
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Building a Library, January 2001, First Choice
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar)
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo...
Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Opera
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he sounds ripe for bigger Verdi here...The “standards” from Puccini and Cilea suggest that Vargas has the heroic heft so lacking among today’s leading tenorini. If not subtle, always exciting. —
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Opera, July 2013, Recording of the Month
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Ramón Vargas (Don Carlos), Alastair Miles (Philippe II), Bo Skovhus (Rodrigue), Nadja Michael (La Princesse Eboli), Iano Tamar (Elisabeth de Valois), Simon Yang (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Cornelia Salje (Thibault), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Un Moine), Benedikt Kobel (Le Compte de Lerme), Inna Los (Un Voix...
This is an issue of major importance, which all lovers of Verdi should acquire, since it will enable them to hear about 45 minutes of his most mature music which is otherwise not available…... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Opera Choice
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Thrilling Tenor
Nicola Martinucci, Yordy Ramiro, Kristjan Johannsson, Torsten Kerl (tenor), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Janusz Monarcha, Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Regina Schorg, Renato Girolami, Boaz Daniel (baritone), Ildikó Raimondi, Vincenzo La Scola, Giorgio Lamberti, John Dickie, József Mukk, János Berkes, Jonathan...
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Verdi: Ernani
Ramón Vargas (Ernani), Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Svetla Vassilieva (Elvira), Karine Ohanyan (Giovanna), Maurizio Pace (Don Riccardo) & Gabriele Ribis (Jago); Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Daniele Callegari, Jean-Louis Grinda (dir.)
This [DVD] confirms that Ernani fully deserves a place in the repertory, even if Grinda’s staging is conservative to the point of static…it’s the baritone who gets all the best tunes in Ernani... —
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Verdi: Ernani
Ramón Vargas (Ernani), Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Svetla Vassilieva (Elvira), Karine Ohanyan (Giovanna), Maurizio Pace (Don Riccardo) & Gabriele Ribis (Jago)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Daniele Callegari, Jean-Louis Grinda (dir.)
This [DVD] confirms that Ernani fully deserves a place in the repertory, even if Grinda’s staging is conservative to the point of static…it’s the baritone who gets all the best tunes in Ernani... —
