DVD 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: La Cenerentola
RecommendedRuxandra Donose (Cenerentola), Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Simone Alberghini (Dandini), Luciano di Pasquale (Don Magnifico), Raquela Sheeran (Clorinda), Lucia Cirillo (Tisbe), Nathan Berg (Alidoro)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski, stage direction by...
Some found Peter Hall's staging… too dark and serious, but for me it was an invigorating evening. …Vladimir Jurowski… draws highly polished and brilliant playing from the LPO of one of Rossini's... —
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Building a Library, December 2012, First Choice (DVD)
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, DVD of the Month
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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: 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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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ketevan Kemoklidze (Rosina), Luca Salsi (Figaro), Dmitry Korchak (Il Conte d’Almaviva), Giovanni Furlanetto (Don Basilio) & Bruno Praticò (Bartolo)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni (conductor) & Stefano Vizioli (stage director)
A traditional approach, neatly conducted by the youthful Andrea Battistoni. It's a lively show, though the singing varies from Bruno Pratico's expert Bartolo to Luca Salsi's careless Figaro. —
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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)
Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Paolo Carignani, Lluís Pasqual
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. 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, 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: 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: Il Turco in Italia
Erwin Schrott (Selim), Olga Perityatko (Fiorella), Nicola Alaimo (Geronio), René Barbera (Narciso), Pietro Spagnoli (Prosdocimo), Cecilia Molinari (Zaida), Pietro Adaini (Albazar), Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, Chorus of the Teatro Della Fortuna M. Agostini, Speranza Scappucci, Davide Livermore
