Dwayne Croft
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedLuciano Pavarotti (Il Duca), Vladimir Chernov (Rigoletto), Cheryl Studer (Gilda), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Sparafucile), Denyce Graves (Maddalena), Jane Shaulis (Giovanna), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Monterone), Dwayne Croft (Marullo), Paul Groves (Borsa), Yanni Yannissis (Il Conte di Ceprano), Heidi Grant...
Levine conducts a thrustful, exceptionally high-powered reading of Rigoletto, vividly dramatic. The sound is full and immediate...Chernov is a firm, clear, virile Rigoletto...Studer is a tenderly... —
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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This outstanding collection demonstrates, as few singers can, the combination of voice and personality needed to take on Puccini's heroines. —
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Twilight of the Gods: The Ultimate Wagner Ring Collection
Bryn Terfel (Wotan/Wanderer), Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Eric Owens (Alberich)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine & Fabio Luisi
Terfel is the finest Wotan before the public today...Blythe's brief appearances as Fricka find her in superb voice...Kaufmann is extraordinary as Siegmund; the velvety-chocolate depths of his... —
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The Pavarotti Edition, Vol. 6: Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo
Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor), Carmen Gonzales (Mezzo-Soprano), The London Opera Chorus (Chorus), Piero Cappuccilli (Baritone), Ida Bormida (Mezzo-Soprano), Piero Cappuccilli (Bass), Julia Varady (Soprano), Terry Edwards, Mirella Freni (Soprano), Dwayne Croft (Baritone), James Courtney (Bass), Federico...
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Luciano Pavarotti (Des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Giuseppe Taddei (Geronte), Ramon Vargas (Edmondo), Cecilia Bartoli (Una voce sola)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
Levine conveys the tensions and atmosphere of a stage performance in a way that plainly owes much to his experience at the Metropolitan...it avoids the feeling of a studio performance....[Pavarotti],... —
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFour-act version
Rolando Villazón (Don Carlo), Robert Lloyd (King Philip), Amanda Roocroft (Elisabeth), Violeta Urmana (Eboli), Dwayne Croft (Posa), Jaakko Ryhänen (Grand Inquisitor), Giorgio Giuseppini (Monk)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & De Nederlandse Opera Chorus, Riccardo Chailly, stage direction...
Decker's direction of the principals provides both intelligent insights into relationships along with many bêtises that surely go against the composer's intentions. …he certainly manages to... —
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Building a Library, March 2006, Recommended DVD
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Michael Sylvester (Don Carlo), Aprile Millo (Elisabetta), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Filippo), Vladimir Chernov (Rodrigo), Dolora Zajick (Eboli), Samuel Ramey (Il Grande Inquisitore), Jane Bunnell (Tebaldo), Paul Plishka (Un Frate), Dwayne Croft (Il Conte di Lerma), John Horton Murray (Araldo), Kathleen...
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Ultimate Puccini
José Carreras (Tenor), Ingvar Wixell (Baritone), Robert Lloyd (Bass), Katia Ricciarelli (Soprano), Håkan Hagegård (Baritone), Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Chorus), Francis Egerton (Tenor), Ashley Putnam (Soprano), William Elvin (Bass), Carlo Bergonzi (Tenor), Angelo Mercuriali...
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Gala Performances Box Set
Maria Deller-Takemura, Philip Mosley, Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Darcey Bussell, Zoltán Solymosi, Paata Burchuladze, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Leanne Benjamin, Tetsuya Kumakawa, Elizabeth McGorian, Adam Cooper, Iohna Loots, Viviana Durante, Bruce Sansom, Robert Lloyd, Dwayne...
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