DVD Video, Riccardo Frizza (conductor)
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Special offer. Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto), Javier Camarena (Duke of Mantua), Desirée Rancatore (Gilda), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Maddalena), Ante Jerkunica (Sparafucile)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Riccardo Frizza, Monique Wagemakers
There’s some formidable singing, though Rancatore is not at her best here...Camarena and Álvarez, however, are both magnificent. —
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Special offer. Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite
Annalisa Stroppa (Léonor de Guzman), Javier Camarena (Fernand), Florian Sempey (Alphonse XI), Evgeny Stavinsky (Balthazar), Edoardo Milletti (Don Gaspar)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Donizetti Opera and Coro dell’Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Valentina Carrasco, Riccardo Frizza
Javier Camarena is exemplary as Fernand, every inch the bel canto tenor in his celebrated final act aria ‘Ange si pur’. Florian Sempey’s Alphonse is a gravel-voiced villain.. Annalisa Stroppa’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), John Osborn (Roberto Devereux), Simone Piazzola (Duca di Nottingham), Raffaella Lupinacci (Sara, Duchessa di Nottingham), David Astorga (Lord Cecil), Ignas Melnikas (Sir Gualtiero Raleigh)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
Stuart Neill (Otello), Jessica Nuccio (Desdemona), Roberto Frontali (Jago), Tamta Tarieli (Emilia), Manuel Pierattelli (Roderigo), Seung Pil Choi (Lodovico), Giacomo Medici (Montano), Franco Di Girolamo (A Herald)
Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche, Riccardo Frizza
Neill is tireless as Otello, the voice and diction clear throughout and the stamina impressive. Much of his acting is thoroughly rudimentary but he rises to a moving 'Niun me tema'...[Nuccio]... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Nabucco
Alberto Gazale (Nabucco), Susan Neves (Abigaille), Orlin Anastassov (Zaccaria), Yasuharu Nakajima (Ismaele), Annamaria Popescu (Fenena), Alberto Rota (High Priest of Baal), Sabrina Modena (Anna), Alessandro Cosentino (Abdallo)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Carlo Felice, Riccardo Frizza (conductor)...
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Special offer. Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
Carmela Remigio (Lucrezia), Marko Mimica (Alfonso), Xabier Anduaga (Gennaro), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Orsini)
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Andrea Bernard, Riccardo Frizza
All three principals are firstrate. Carmela Remigio (Lucrezia) combines vocal sweetness with dramatic muscle. Marko Mimica is a casual psychopath in a leather coat and buzz cut. And the young... —
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Special offer. Donizetti: Belisario
Roberto Frontali (Belisario), Simon Lim (Giustiniano), Carmela Remigio (Antonina), Annalisa Stroppa (Irene), Celso Albelo (Alamiro), Anaïs Mejías (Eudora), Klodjan Kacani (Eutropio), Stefano Gentili (Eusebio), Matteo Castrignano (Ottario)
Orchestra e Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza
The principals are, without exception, first-rate. Roberto Frontali in the title role has a voice that speaks profoundly of authority and wisdom…Supporting roles, too, are finely sung, particularly... —
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Special offer. Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Luca Salsi (Rigoletto), Javier Camarena (Il Duca di Mantova), Enkeleda Kamani (Gilda), Alessio Cacciamani (Sparafucile), Caterina Piva (Maddalena)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Davide Livermore
Camarena, a star of the bel canto repertoire, eschews the ‘bravado’ approach taken by many tenors and brings a beautiful light, silvery tone to the role of the Duke. His voice pairs perfectly... —
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Special offer. Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth
Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), Carmela Remigio (Amelia), Stefan Pop (Warney), Xabier Anduaga (Leicester), Dario Russo (Lambourne) & Federica Vitali (Fanny)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza (conductor) & Maria Pilar Pérez Aspa (director)
Jessica Pratt’s Elizabeth takes a while to hit form, while as her rival Amelia Carmela Remigio is both physically and vocally expressive, offering liquid tone. As the two-timing Earl of Leicester,... —
