Matthew Polenzani
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New. Barber: Vanessa
Nicole Heaston (Vanessa), J'Nai Bridges (Erika), Matthew Polenzani (Anatol), Susan Graham (The Old Baroness), Thomas Hampson (The Old Doctor), National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
This new live Kennedy Center recording hits the mark. Noseda draws playing of real lustre from the National Symphony Orchestra. He is alert, too, to the score's unease...The more compelling... —
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Record Review, 30th May 2026, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2026, Opera Choice
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Massenet: Hérodiade
Clémentine Margaine (Hérodiade), Nicole Car (Salomé), Étienne Dupuis (Hérode), Matthew Polenzani (Jean), Marko Mimica (Phanuel); Deutsche Oper Berlin, Enrique Mazzola
Berlin’s Deutsche Oper do Massenet proud in this live recording with a top-flight cast......Margaine’s Hérodiade is by turns the jealous wife and the vengeful queen with a vocal heft that would... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Opera Choice
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Brahms: Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes
RecommendedRecorded live at the 2003 Verbier Festival
Andrea Rost (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Yefim Bronfman & James Levine (piano duet), James Levine
The quartet themselves make an appealingly lively sound…Quasthoff and especially Kozena are strongest in their solo selections, the mezzo’s three songs distinguished by her plangent tone and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th June 2016
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 1 - Matthew Polenzani
Matthew Polenzani (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano)
Polenzani is evidently a tenor of the finest quality: a lyric voice, sweet and ingratiating, with the capacity to ring out excitingly, gloriously easy on high but with a perfectly adequate body... —
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Special offer. Matthew Polenzani: Live at the Verbier Festival & Academy
Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
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Massenet: Werther
Matthew Polenzani (Werther), Isabel Leonard (Charlotte), Sean Michael Plumb (Albert), Jasmine Habersham (Sophie), Patrick Carfizzi (Le Bailli)
Houston Grand Opera, Robert Spano
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Elina Garanca - Bel Canto
Arias from operas by Bellini, Donizetti & Rossini
Elina Garanca (mezzo)
Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado
How Rossini would have fallen for the Latvian Elina Garanca! Her voice, with its creamy mezzo middle and purposeful drop into the chest register suggests a perfect Rosina; part passionate young... —
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A Guided Tour of the Romantic Era, Vol. 8
Eldar Nebolsin (piano), Jeno Jando (piano), Philip Thomson (piano), Giuseppe Andaloro (piano), Andreas Rothkopf (organ), Folke Alin (choirmaster), Christina Hornell (choirmaster), Goran Eliasson (tenor), John Erik Eleby (bass), Lennart Forsen (bass), Lars Cleveman (tenor), Marian Vach (choirmaster),...
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The A–Z of Opera: 2nd Expanded Edition
Chen-Ye Yuan, Kurt Moll (bass), Inga Nielsen, Mariusz Kwiecień (baritone), Valerian Ruminski, Gloria Banditelli, Rosita Frisani, Mario Cecchetti, Mediterraneo Concento, Sergio Vartolo, Jana Valaskova, Ingrid Kertesi, János Berkes, Nicola Martinucci, Miriam Gauci, Eduard Tumagian, Miroslav Dvorský,...
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Special offer. Gathering
Janai Brugger (soprano), Brian Zeger (piano), Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Lattanzi (baritone), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Liz Callaway (soprano), Michael Kelly (baritone), Alexander Gemignani (tenor)
The distinguished assemblage of vocalists shines with committed, idiomatic, and beautifully sung renditions. Pianist Brian Zeger excels in Moore’s keyboard writing that is tonally rich, and... —
