Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian
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Special offer. Handel: Theodora
RecommendedLisette Oropesa (Theodora), Joyce DiDonato (Irene), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Didymus), Michael Spyres (Septimius), John Chest (Valens), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
This is now the benchmark Theodora; it is optimally cast, dramatically intense and luminously beautiful. Its world-class principals use their fine vocal qualities to deepen their characters.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Recording of the Month
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Choral
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Oropesa & DiDonato)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Spyres)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Cavalli's sparing use of strings is densified into fivepart textures that spread like wildfire - Daucé plasters fulsome orchestral accompaniments on to many arias and recitatives devised originally... —
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Special offer. Handel: Poro, re delle Indie
Christopher Lowrey (Poro), Marco Angioloni (Alessandro), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Gandarte), Alessandro Ravasio (Timagene), Giuseppina Bridelli (Erissena), Lucía Martín Cartón (Cleofide)
Il Groviglio, Marco Angioloni
Christopher Lowrey’s expert facility with dramatic expression, pinpoint coloratura and alert musicality runs the gamut of Poro’s complex emotional states. —
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Special offer. Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Eva Zaïcik (soloist), Cyril Auvity (soloist), Thibault de Damas (soloist), Zachary Wilder (soloist), Nicholas Scott (soloist), David Tricou (soloist), Geoffroy Buffière (soloist), Marc Mauillon (soloist), Claire Lefilliâtre (soloist), Serge Goubioud (soloist),...
The performance by Le Poème harmonique is exceptional. It is lively, bright, and with an excellent sense of intonation…the voices are also fine, with good diction and excellent sense of pitch. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia
Tomás Král, Hugo Hymas, Charlotte La Thrope, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Vlad Crosman, Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
With added harp in the continuo and richly characterful woodwind, Dumestre leads one of the most luxuriant accounts on disc, full of felicitous detail and theatrical flair. British tenor Hugo... —
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Mariana Flores sings expressively enough to persuade you, almost, that Sacrati is as good as Monteverdi. —
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Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critics Choice, Autumn 2022, Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Michael Spyres (Mitridate), Julie Fuchs (Aspasia), Sabine Devieilhe (Ismène), Elsa Dreisig (Sifare), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Farnace), Adriana Bignagni Lesca (Arbate), Cyrille Dubois (Marzio), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Julie Fuchs is one of the excitements of this recording...and so is Michael Spyres as Mitridate with a handsome account of the king’s opening number...Yet the hero here and throughout is the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Porpora: Polifemo
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Éléonore Pancrazi (mezzo-soprano), José Coca Loza (bass), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (countertenor), Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Stefan Plewniak
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Claire Lefilliâtre, Ana Escudero, Jennifer Courcier, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Nicholas Scott, Marco Angioloni, Francesca Aspromonte, Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Juan Sancho (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass), Camille Poul, Geoffroy Buffière, Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget
It comes closer than many to an elusive golden mean by presenting an uncut text, adopting relatively straightforward instrumentation (fiddles, some other strings and a plethora of chordal continuo... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Pene Pati (Mitridate), Ana Maria Labin (Aspasia), Angela Brower (Sifare), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Farnace), Sarah Aristidou (Ismene)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Satoshi Miyagi, Marc Minkowski
Vocal virtuosity, which is crucial in such a piece, is best exemplified in the title-role by rising star tenor Pene Pati, who is up to every possible demand...Alert, lively playing from period-instrument... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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