DVD Video, Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor)
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Nicola Porpora: L'Angelica
Teresa Iervolino (Orlando), Paola Valentina Molinari (Medoro), Ekaterina Bakanova (Angelica), Gaia Petrone (Licori), Sergio Foresti (Titiro), Barbara Massaro (Tirsi)
La Lira di Orfeo, Federico Maria Sardelli, Gianluca Falaschi
Graced by the participation of dancers, director/designer Gianluca Falaschi’s attractive staging mixes ancient and modern with wit; intelligently acted, it is also very capably sung...the period-orchestra... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Intermedi della pellegrina: Firenze 1589 (An itinerant show in the Boboli gardens)
Modo Antiquo, Coro Ricercare Ensemble, Compagnia Dramatodia, Federico Maria Sardelli, Valentina Villa (director)
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Special offer. Cavalli: Il Giasone
Christophe Dumaux (Giasone), Katarina Bradic (Medea), Robin Johannsen (Isifile), Josef Wagner (Giove/ Besso), Filippo Adami (Demo), Yaniv d’Or (Delfa / Eolo), Angélique Noldus (Amore/ Alinda)
Symfonisch Orkest van de Vlaamse Opera, Federico Maria Sardelli
Though Johannsen sings stylishly, Bradic's jolie laide Medea is slow to warm up, while Dumaux's shapely countertenor is too delicate to suggest a man of action...Orchestrally it's a delight,... —
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Antonio Vivaldi: Il Bajazet
Renato Dolcini (Bajazet), Sonia Prina (Tamerlano), Loriana Castellano (Asteria), Raffaele Pe (Andronico), Lucia Cirillo (Irene), Valeria La Grotta (Idaspe), Giovanni Imbroglia (mime), Marco Mantovani (mime), Alberto Busettini (harpsichord), Nicola Lamon (harpsichord), Francesco Ferrarini (cello),...
Pé is magnificent as Andronico with impeccable legato and a velvety lower register...Sardelli conducting a Baroque orchestra shorn of theorboes and trimmed of woodwinds but with fizzing violins... —
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Handel: Rinaldo
Raffaele Pe (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Goffredo), Francesca Aspromonte (Almirena), Andrea Patucelli (Argante)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Federico Maria Sardelli, Pier Luigi Pizzi
Pe sings with agility, finesse and pathos as Rinaldo’s music requires…The Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino play with a sure sense of crisply detailed style. —
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Special offer. Donizetti: Olivo e Pasquale
Bruno Taddia (Olivo), Filippo Morace (Pasquale), Laura Giordano (Isabella), Pietro Adaini (Camillo), Matteo Macchioni (Le Bross), Edoardo Milletti (Columella), Silvia Beltrami (Matilde), Giovanni Romeo (Diego)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala Coro Donizetti Opera, Federico Maria Sardelli
Donizetti enthusiasts will find this recording to be a lively and enjoyable performance of a virtually unknown work from the Master’s second tier. These are rare, and should be celebrated and... —
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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)
Orchestra...
Vivaldi expert Federico Maria Sardelli directs the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale, Florence, with both precision and panache…Mary-Ellen Nesi is compelling in the title role…no less captivating... —
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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera Collection, Vol. 1: Baroque
Charles Workman (tenor), Delphine Galou (contralto), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor), Jean-François Lombard, Elena Harsányi, Luigi de Donato, Carmela Remigio (soprano), Leonardo Cortellazzi, Francesca Aspromonte, Raffaele Pe, Rossana Bertini, Elena Bertuzzi, Candida Guida, Paolo Fanciullacci, Marco...
