Blu-Ray Video, Rossini (composer)
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Special offer. Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Isabella), Edgardo Rocha (Lindoro), Ildar Abdrazakov (Mustafà), Alessandro Corbelli (Taddeo), Rebeca Olvera (Elvira), Rosa Bove (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly)
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
If this was, indeed, Bartoli’s first Isabella, it was worth the wait…Nowadays she’s a consummate comedienne whose work looks especially well on film. As for her singing, one would be hard-pressed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th August 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Special offer. Rossini: Le Siège de Corinthe
Luca Pisaroni (Mahomet II), John Irvin (Cléomène), Nino Machaidze (Pamira), Sergey Romanovsky (Néoclès), Xabier Anduaga (Adraste), Cecilia Molinari (Ismène)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai, Coro Del Teatro Ventidio Basso, Carlus Padrissa, Roberto Abbado
Padrissa...balances three directorial strands to good effect… The cast oozes charisma as well as vocal élan. Luca Pisaroni is an exciting Mahomet, dominating the state… Romanovsky’s blend of... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Rossini: Demetrio e Polibio
María José Moreno (Lisinga), Victoria Zaytseva (Demetrio-Siveno), Yijie Shi (Demetrio-Eumene) & Mirco Palazzi (Polibio)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Prague Chamber Choir, Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Davide Livermore (stage director)
All the singers seem fairly young; I can best sum up my pleasure and admiration by thinking that Rossini singing with all its manifest bel canto demands is safe for at least a generation...[Zaytseva,... —
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Special offer. Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Yijie Shi (Le Comte Ory), María José Moreno (La Comtesse Adèle), Lorenzo Regazzo (Le Gouverneur), Laura Polverelli (Isolier), Roberto de Candia (Raimbaud), Natalia Gavrilan (Ragonde), Rinnat Moriah (Alice)
Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Paolo Carignani (conductor) & Lluís...
The musical performance is at once satisfactory and maddening. Satisfactory in that all of the cast are able to negotiate with only occasional smudges Rossini’s very demanding writing; much... —
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Special offer. New Year’s Concert
Live recording from the Teatro La Fenice, 1 January 2013
Desirée Rancatore (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice & Members of the Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Special offer. Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Florian Sempey (Figaro), Catherine Trottmann (Rosina), Michele Angelini (Almaviva), Péter Kálmán (Bartolo), Robert Gleadow (Basilio), Annuziata Vestri (Berta)
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer, Laurent Pelly
Given that Pelly works with players of quality, while ensuring that the production’s every detail is of a piece with itself, it’s not surprising that this is a wonderfully well-acted Il barbiere…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Michael Spyres (Aureliano), Jessica Pratt (Zenobia), Lena Belkina (Arsace) & Raffaella Lupinacci (Publia)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)
[This production] is excellent and the singing on a very high level. The title role has the least interesting music, but Michael Spyres…makes what he can of it…[the lovers] are sung by Lena... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Rossini: L'Equivoco Stravagante
Antonella Colaianni (Ernestino), Giulio Mastrototaro (Gamberotto), Emmanuel Franco (Burakicchio), Patrick Kabongo (Ermanno), Eleonora Bellocci (Rosalia), Sebastian Monti (Frontino), Gorecki Chamber Choir, Virtuosi Brunensis, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Rossini: Adina
Lisette Oropesa (Adina), Vito Priante Califo), Levy Sekgapane (Selimo), Matteo Macchioni (Ali), Davide Giangregorio (Mustafà)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini, Coro Del Teatro Della Fortuna M. Agostini, Diego Matheuz, Rosetta Cucchi
Oropesa is a predictably superb Adina, the South African coloratura tenor Levy Sekgapane is a thrilling Selimo and Vito Priante is a commanding and vocally literate Caliph. —
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Special offer. Rossini: Tancredi
Anna Goryachova (Tancredi), Mélissa Petit (Amenaide), Antonino Siragusa (Argirio), Andreas Wolf (Orbazzano), Laura Polverelli (Isaura)
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Jan Philipp Gloger, Yi-Chen Lin
