David McVicar
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New. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Lisette Oropesa (Maria), Aigul Akhmetshina (Elisabetta), Ismael Jordi (Leicester), Roberto Tagliavini (Talbot), Andrzej Filończyk (Cecil), Elissa Pfaender (Anna), Coro Y Orquesta Titulares del Teatro Real, David McVicar, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra
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Special offer. Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
RecommendedSarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) & David McVicar...
David McVicar's 2005 staging, revived the following summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was adored by the Glyndebourne public. Chief cause of their... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2006, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, DVD of the Year
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedErwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal. —
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Building a Library, May 2014, First Choice (DVD)
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - DVD
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedErwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal. —
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Building a Library, May 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - DVD/Blu-ray
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Special offer. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Sarah Connolly (Lucretia), Christopher Maltman (Tarquinius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca), Mary Nelson (Lucia), Leigh Melrose (Junius), Clive Bayley (Collatinus), Orla Boylan (Female Chorus) & John Mark Ainsley (Male Chorus)
English National Opera, Paul Daniel (conductor) & David McVicar...
The main cast delivers a superlative response from start to finish, headed by baritone Christopher Maltman's bull-like Tarquinius and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly's harrowingly intense Lucretia...Top-flight... —
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Opera, April 2014, Recording of the Month
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New. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Lisette Oropesa (Maria), Aigul Akhmetshina (Elisabetta), Ismael Jordi (Leicester), Roberto Tagliavini (Talbot), Andrzej Filończyk (Cecil), Elissa Pfaender (Anna), Coro Y Orquesta Titulares del Teatro Real, David McVicar, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra
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Special offer. Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
RecommendedGerald Finley (Hans Sachs), Anna Gabler (Eva), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Marco Jentzsch (Walther), Topi Lehtipuu (David), Michaela Selinger (Magdalene), Alastair Miles (Pogner)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski, David McVicar
McVicar's staging stokes the glow of Meistersinger's humane heart...and above all he reminds us that this is an opera about youth and self-discovery. Gerald Finley's pivotal Sachs relish[es]... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Maddalena de Coigny), Željko Lučić (Carlo Gérard), Denyce Graves (Bersi), Elena Zilio (Madelon), Rosalind Plowright (Contessa de Coigny), Roland Wood (Roucher), Peter Coleman-Wright (Pietro Fléville), Eddie Wade (Fouquier-Tinville), Adrian Clarke...
The Countess de Coigny in sumptuous purple satin is sung to great effect by Rosalind Plowright, as is Elena Zilio’s Madelon…never less than compelling on screen, Jonas Kaufmann is a perfect... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2016, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Sally Matthews (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Mari Eriksmoen (Blonde), Brenden Gunnell (Pedrillo) & Franck Saurel (Pasha Selim)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & David McVicar (director)
This [is] the most convincing dramaturgical presentation of the opera in recent times…Kehrer is magnificent as Osmin, Gunnell is lyrical and alert as Pedrillo, and Eriksmoen steers a delicate... —
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Opera, September 2016, Recording of the Month
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