Antonello Manacorda
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Special offer. Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
RecommendedGolda Schultz (soprano), Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam with Julie Roset, Amitai Pati, Ashley Dixon Santelli, Milan Siljanov, Simone Easthope
She is a classy Mozartian and imbues each of her arias with character, pathos and purity of line. Her timbre is velvety, but there’s plenty of attack in fearsomely taxing arias such as Anna’s... —
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Recording (Solo Recital)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Solo Vocal
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the Kammerakademie Potsdam bursts onto the scene with energy and vigour...Played on modern instruments but with a strong awareness of historical performance, the Fifth and Sixth show off the... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Ombra Compagna - Mozart Concert Arias
RecommendedLisette Oropesa (soprano), Il Pomo d'Oro, Antonello Manacorda
Oropesa sings with exquisite emotional restraint, subtly shading her vibrato and colouring her mezzo range with a Schwarzkopf-like radiance and intensity.- —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th May 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
RecommendedJuan Diego Flórez (Hoffmann), Ermonela Jaho (Antonia), Alex Esposito (Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto), Julie Boulianne (Nicklausse), Olga Pudova (Olympia), Marina Costa-Jackson (Giulietta), Christine Rice (Muse)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonello Manacorda, Damiano Michieletto
Always an elegant, slightly cool presence on stage, Flórez's Hoffmann is more burnt-out playboy than manic tortured poet: this is a man who has spent his life chasing his next thrill rather... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th December 2025
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Special offer. Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
RecommendedJuan Diego Flórez (Hoffmann), Ermonela Jaho (Antonia), Alex Esposito (Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto), Julie Boulianne (Nicklausse), Olga Pudova (Olympia), Marina Costa-Jackson (Giulietta), Christine Rice (Muse)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonello Manacorda, Damiano Michieletto
All four iterations of the opera’s ultra-villain are performed here by the same singer, as appears to have been Offenbach’s intention… the singing here is generally excellent. Olga Pudova is... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th December 2025
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with exemplary recorded sound, Manacorda and his players vividly convey the sheer physicality of Beethoven’s sound world. I also hear countless details in these familiar scores that I’d barely... —
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Building A Library, October 2024, Recommended Recording (Symphony No. 4)
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Ensemble/Orchestra of the Year
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Coming soon. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Lisette Oropesa (Maria), Kate Lindsey (Elisabetta), Bekhzod Davronov (Leicester), Aleksei Kulagin (Talbot), Thomas Lehman (Cecil), Nino Gotoshia (Anna), Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Antonello Manacorda, Ulrich Rasche
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I find the muscularity of these performances very enjoyable...The orchestra’s rhythmic assurance is similarly impressive, and especially in the way they bring a sense of the dance to these scores. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Meyerbeer: L'Africaine (Vasco da Gama)
Michael Spyres (Vasco da Gama), Claudia Mahnke (Sélika), Brian Mulligan (Nélusko), Andreas Bauer Kanabas (Don Pédro), Thomas Faulkner (Don Diego), Kirsten MacKinnon (Ines), Bianca Andrew (Anna), Michael McCown (Don Alvar)
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Antonello...
What has kept the piece in the repertoire is singing and it’s the cast that make this new recording, with Michael Spyres every inch the heroic explorer Vasco de Gama...He dominates the Act 1... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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