Franco Fagioli
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Special offer. Handel: Agrippina
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Agrippina), Elsa Benoit (Poppea), Luca Pisaroni (Claudio), Franco Fagioli (Nerone), Jakub Józef Orliński (Ottone), Andrea Mastroni (Pallante), Carlo Vistoli (Narciso), Biagio Pizzuti (Lesbo), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Giunone)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
This Agrippina jostles for top place among the opera’s complete recordings. Joyce DiDonato is matchless in the title role, most other cast members likewise outstrip their rivals and their vocal... —
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Record Review, 11th January 2020, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Opera Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (DiDonato)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Arrestingly, uncompromisingly thrilling...while the coloratura thrills here are predictably spectacular, it’s the other elements – the new-found care and weight of the slower arias, the range... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Opera, May 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Handel: Serse
RecommendedFranco Fagioli (Serse), Vivica Genaux (Arsamente), Inga Kalna (Romilda), Francesca Aspromonte (Atalanta), Andrea Mastroni (Ariodate), Delphine Galou (Amastre), Biagio Pizzuti (Elviro)
Il Pomo d ́Oro Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev
I’d guess that a voice like Franco Fagioli’s…comes as close as we can get today to the mingled brilliance, suppleness and power of the great castrati in their pomp… few if any falsettists today... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Record Review, 29th December 2018, Disc of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Hasse, J A: Siroe re di Persia
RecommendedDresden version (1763)
Max Emanuel Cencic (Siroe), Franco Fagioli (Medarse), Julia Lezhneva (Laodice), Juan Sancho (Cosroe), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Emira), Laureen Snouffer (Arasse)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
a triumph. It reveals the full splendour of Hasse's score, from tender lyricism to eye-popping virtuosity...Petrou storms his way through the score, pushing the artists beyond what seems physically... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Porpora: Il Maestro
RecommendedOpera Arias
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi
Fagioli forges his own powerful execution out of practices that Porpora helped invent. Ornaments of fiendish length, tempo and range spur Fagioli onto ever-greater displays, racing ahead of... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Opera, January 2015, Recording of the Month
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Vinci, Leonardo: Catone in Utica
RecommendedMax Emanuel Cencic (Arbace), Franco Fagioli (Cesare), Valer Sabadus (Marzia), Martin Mitterutzner (Fulvio), Vince Yi (Emilia), Juan Sancho (Catone)
Il Pomo D'oro, Riccardo Minasi
Director Riccardo Minaso heats up [the] sense of rivalry - the variations get wilder, the yearning more palpable. All three countertenors are virtuosos, but Fagioli takes the laurels…the band... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Opera, August 2015, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Anime Immortali | Mozart Arias
RecommendedFranco Fagioli (counter-tenor), Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard
In ‘Va’ pure ad altri in braccio’ from La finta giardiniera the strings dive down in fury in a style that teases Gluck’s ideas about how rage should sound in reformed opera. But it's Fagioli... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2023
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Handel: Germanico
RecommendedSara Mingardo (Germanico), Maria Grazia Schiavo (Agrippina), Laura Cherici (Antonia), Magnus Staveland (Celio), Franco Fagioli (Lucio), Sergio Foresti (Cesare)
Il Rossignolo, Ottaviano Tenerani
If the discovery of Germanico marks a career boost for Tenerani, he has repaid the favour in this stylishly executed performance...Laura Cherici brings warmth to Antonia's 'Sorti piu belle',... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Vinci: Artaserse
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (Artaserse), Max Emanuel Cencic (Mandane), Daniel Behle (Artabano), Franco Fagioli (Arbace), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Semira), Yuiry Mynenko (Megabise), Coro delle Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, Concerto Koln, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky is agile and artless in the title role...Cencic (Mandane) offers both eloquent and virtuoso singing...Fagioli makes a compelling Arbace, flitting effortlessly from flamboyant vocal... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Recording of the Month
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Nicola Antonio Porpora: Carlo Il Calvo
Franco Fagioli (Adalgiso), Max Emanuel Cenčić (Lottario), Julia Lezhneva (Gildippe), Suzanne Jerosme (Giuditta), Petr Nekoranec (Asprando), Bruno de Sá (Berardo), Nian Wang (Eduige)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
The singers are all first-rate. Max Cencic’s Lothar is spot on in terms of coloratura, while Franco Fagioli’s Adalgiso has a nice, almost transparent voice. Both Julia Leszhnova and Suzanne... —
