Loriana Castellano
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Special offer. Se con Stille Frequenti
Duetti da Camera by Bononcini, Lotti and Steffani
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Cenacolo Musicale
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Special offer. Handel/Leo: Rinaldo
Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Loriana Castellano (Almirena), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo), Francesca Ascioti (Argante), Ana Victória Pitts (A Christian Magician), Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Sangati’s staging, mixing (vaguely) 18th-century costumes, Venice carnival masks and modernist camp, is unpretentious and uncluttered. The substitute arias, often short-breathed, cannot rival... —
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Vivaldi: Il Bajazet, RV 703
Renato Dolcini (baritone), Raffaele Pe (countertenor), Valeria La Grotta (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), Loriana Castellano (mezzo), Lucia Cirillo (mezzo-soprano), Orchestra Del Teatro La Fenice Di Venezia, Federico Maria Sardelli
In the title role, Renato Dolcini proves the master of commanding bluster while Raffaele Pé's Andronico gilds Hasse's elegant 'Quel ciglio vezzosetto' with some stylish singing, and Valeria... —
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Myslivecek: Medonte
Thomas Michael Allen (Medonte), Juanita Lascarro (Selene), Susanne Bernhard (Arsace), Siphiwe McKenzie Edelmann (Evandro), Loriana Castellano (Zelinda), Ulrike Andersen (Talete)
L'arte del Mondo, Werner Ehrhardt
This period-style performance, decently conducted, was recorded live in 2010. Neither starry nor dazzling, it nevertheless communicates why Myslivecek inspires devotion. —
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Special offer. Pavesi: Ser Marcantonio
Marco Filippo Romano (baritone), Loriana Castellano (contralto), Matteo D’Apolito (bass-baritone), Timur Bekbosunov (tenor), Silvia Beltrami (mezzo-soprano), Svetlana Smolentseva (mezzo-soprano) & Massimiliano Silvestri (tenor)
Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań & Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester...
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Il Farnace, RV711
Mary-Ellen Nesi (Farnace), Delphine Galou (Berenice), Sonia Prina (Tamiri), Loriana Castellano (Selinda), Emanuele D’Aguanno (Pompeo), Roberta Mameli (Gilade), Magnus Staveland (Aquilio), Giulia Nuti (Harpsichord), Simone Vallerotonda (Tiorba e chitarra barocca) & Michele Tazzari (Bass continuos)
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Special offer. Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande
Roberto De Candia (Pietro Il Grande), Loriana Castellano (Caterina), Paola Gradina (Madama Fritz), Nina Solodovnikova (Annetta Mazepa), Francisco Brito (Carlo Scavronski), Marco Filippo Romano (Ser Cuccupis), Tommaso Barea (Firman-Trombest), Marcello Nardis (Hondedisky), Stefano Gentili (Notaio),...
The comedy roles shine brightest here. Marco Filippo Romano stands out with his characterful interpretation of the patter role, the pompous Magistrate Ser Cuccupis…The central lovers are less... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande
Roberto De Candia (Pietro Il Grande), Loriana Castellano (Caterina), Paola Gradina (Madama Fritz), Nina Solodovnikova (Annetta Mazepa), Francisco Brito (Carlo Scavronski), Marco Filippo Romano (Ser Cuccupis), Tommaso Barea (Firman-Trombest), Marcello Nardis (Hondedisky), Stefano Gentili (Notaio),...
The comedy roles shine brightest here. Marco Filippo Romano stands out with his characterful interpretation of the patter role, the pompous Magistrate Ser Cuccupis...The central lovers are less... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Vivaldi: Orlando furioso, RV Anh. 84
Lucia Cirillo (mezzo-soprano), Michela Antenucci (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), Riccardo Novaro (baritone), Loriana Castellano (mezzo-soprano), Konstantin Derri (counter-tenor), Luigi Schifano (counter-tenor)
Diego Fasolis
Lucia Cirillo is a suitably bewitching Alcina...Luigi Schifano’s Ruggiero is the pick of the countertenors – tone focused but never pushed…while Konstantin Derri is a tidy, prettily sung Medoro.... —
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Special offer. Cimarosa: Il Matrimonio Segreto
Renate Girolami, Donato Di Stefano, Loriana Castellano, Klara Ek, Giulia Semenzato, Jesús Álvarez, Orchester der Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi
This spirited performance captures the playfulness and affectionate tone of Cimarosa’s comedy. —
