Riccardo Zanellato
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Bellini: I Puritani
Lawrence Brownlee (Lord Arturo Talbo), Lisette Oropesa (Elvira), Anthony Clark Evans (Sir Riccardo Forth), Riccardo Zanellato (Sir Giorgio Valton), Roxana Constantinescu (Enrichetta di Francia)
Dresdner Philharmonie, MDR-Rundfunkchor, Riccardo Frizza
Brownlee once again takes on some extremely high notes written for the legendary Giovanni Rubini – and with complete confidence. Dramatically engaged, his tone is ardent and convincingly Italianate..[Oropesa]... —
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Lisette Oropesa (Lucia), Ștefan Pop (Edgardo), Mattia Olivieri (Enrico), Riccardo Zanellato (Raimondo)
Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Oropesa's soprano has all the distinctive darkness of Callas but with the pinpoint agility of Sutherland at her peak...but this is more than a vocal acrobatic display; it's a complete characterisation. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Ludovic Tézier (Macbeth), Silvia Dalla Benetta (Lady Macbeth), Riccardo Zanellato (Banquo), Giorgio Berrugi (Macduff)
Filarmonia Arturo Toscanini, Roberto Abbado
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Messa Per Rossini
María José Siri (soprano), Veronica Simeoni (mezzo), Giorgio Berrugi (tenor), Simone Piazzola (baritone), Riccardo Zanellato (bass); Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Only hyper-specialists will recognise the composers’ names…The results are varied, ranging from the barely competent to the pretty interesting, but of course Verdi dwarfs them with the Libera... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Carmela Remigio (Maria), Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Joseph Calleja (Leicester), Cinzia Rizzone (Anna), Riccardo Zanellato (Talbot), Marzio Giossi (Cecil)
Circuito Lirico Regional Chorus, Fondazione Orchestra Gaetano Donizetti di Bergamo, Fabrizio Maria Carminati
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Special offer. Wolf-Ferrari: La Vedova Scaltra
Anne-Lise Sollied, Maurizio Muraro, Emanuele D’Aguanno, Mark Milhofer, Riccardo Zanellato & Elena Rossi
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Karl Martin (conductor) & Massimo Gasparon (director)
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Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks
Riccardo Zanellato (bass)
Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children's Choir, Riccardo Muti
Copper-toned brass and crisp, snappy string articulation make the overture to Nabucco levitate…The 150-strong Chicago Symphony Chorus makes fervent, sharply profiled contributions…Muti is a... —
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Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore
Ana María Sánchez (Soprano), Cristina Sogmaister (Soprano), Federico Sacchi (Bass), Giuseppe Gipali (Tenor), Riccardo Zanellato (Bass), Vladimir Stoyanov (Baritone)
Teatro La Fenice Orchestra, Teatro La Fenice Chorus, Marcello Viotti
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Dario Russo (bass (vocal)), Dinara Alieva (soprano), Simona Marcello (mezzo-soprano), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Tiziano Tassi (bass (vocal)), Cristiano Olivieri (tenor), Anna Maria Chiuri (mezzo-soprano), Carlo Lepore (baritone, bass (vocal)), Riccardo Zanellato (bass (vocal)), Simone Piazzola (baritone),...
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Special offer. Verdi: Nabucco
Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Nabucco), Anna Pirozzi (Abigaille), Riccardo Zanellato (Zaccaria), Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Ismaele), Alisa Kolosova (Fenena), Dongho Kim (Priest), Sofía Esparza (Anna), Mark Serdiuk (Abdallo)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Jordi Bernàcer
Enkhabat’s striking presence and strong, disciplined singing mark Nabucco out as a standard military dictator. Though not always in perfect vocal control, Saioa Hernández is an energetic, grand-scale... —
