Francesco Meli
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Special offer. Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Ludovic Tézier (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Rebeka (Amelia), Francesco Meli (Gabriele Adorno), Michele Pertusi (Fiesco), Mattia Olivieri (Paolo), Andrea Pellegrini (Pietro)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Michele Spotti
As one might expect, [Tézier] sings it most wonderfully, with a handsome, bronzed tone, and sense, sound and dynamics all immaculately fused...Fiesco is played by Michele Pertusi, in another... —
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Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle
RecommendedMarina Rebeka (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Francesco Meli (tenor), Alex Esposito (bass)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Pappano opts for a strong-limbed, purposeful approach that has the music sounding neither trite nor portentous, pleasingly bringing together its charm and expansiveness...The four high-quality... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 2013
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Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (Giovanna d’Arco), Plácido Domingo (Giacomo), Francesco Meli (Carlo VII), Roberto Tagliavini (Talbot) & Johannes Dunz (Delil)
Philharmonia Chor Wien & Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Paolo Carignani
[Domingo] sounds entirely at home in his new vocal category; his voice now fibrous in quality, he is also engaged dramatically...Netrebko's soprano has expanded to embrace the stirring warrior-maiden... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd June 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Elena Stikhina (Aida), Francesco Meli (Radamès), Agnieszka Rehlis (Amneris), Ludovic Tézier (Amonasro), Soloman Howard (Ramfis), Insung Sim (King), Francesca Chiejina (High Priestess), Andrés Presno (Messenger)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano,...
It all adds up to a brave attempt to rethink a work which, for all its popularity, can be notoriously elusive in performance, though ultimately its theatrical and vocal drawbacks don’t make... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Verdi: Requiem
Erika Grimaldi (soprano), Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor) & Michele Pertusi (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Michele Pertusi is exemplary, with a lovely legato quality…Erika Grimaldi is at her best when projecting the drama of the text…the LSO Chorus are superb throughout, as are the LSO themselves.... —
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Verdi: La traviata (Live)
Nadine Sierra (soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Caterina Piva (mezzo-soprano), Luca Bernard (tenor), Francesco Samuele Venuti (baritone), William Corrò (baritone), Egidio Massimo Naccarato (baritone), Emanuele Cordaro (bass), Alfio Vacanti (tenor), Caterina Meldolesi (soprano), Leo Nucci (baritone),...
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Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska
Michele Pertusi, Darina Takova, Francesco Meli, Bruno Praticò, Jeannette Fischer, Simone Alberghini
Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Prague Chamber Choir, Víctor Pablo Pérez
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Leo Nucci (Simon Boccanegra), Robert Scandiuzzi (Jacopo Fiesco), Simone Piazzola (Paolo Albiani), Paolo Pecchioli (Pietro), Tamar Iveri (Amelia/Maria), Francesco Meli (Gabriele Adorno)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Giorgio Gallione
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Special offer. Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Angela Meade (Giselda), Francesco Meli (Oronte), Alex Esposito (Pagano), Giuseppe Gipali (Arvino), Livinia Bini (Viclinda), Alexandra Zabala (Sofia), Antonio Di Matteo (Pirro), Giuseppe Capoferri (Acciano), Joshua Sanders (Prior of Milan)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio Torino, Michele Mariotti...
Meade may not offer such vivid Italian as her colleagues, but she knows what she’s singing about, possesses abundant technical skill and is grand in expression…Of the three principals the finest... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Live)
Dinara Alieva (soprano), Olesya Petrova (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Dmitry Belosselskiy (bass)
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Yuri Temirkanov
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