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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth (French Version, Paris 1865)
Ernesto Petti (Macbeth), Lidia Fridman (Lady Macbeth), Michele Pertusi (Banquo), Luciano Ganci (Macduff)
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra Giovanile Della Via Emilia, Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Parma, Roberto Abbado, Pierre Audi
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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. Lully: Acis et Galatée
Jean-Francois Lombard (Acis), Elena Harsanyi (Galatee), Valeria La Grotta (Diane), Luigi de Donato (Polipheme), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (L'Abondance), Markus van Arsdale (Comus/Tircis), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Sardelli (wielding an authentically Lullian staff for certain movements) propels a crisp account – the festival orchestra’s first with period instruments. The many dances show off a wonderful... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Donizetti: Chiara E Serafina
Pietro Spagnoli (Don Meschino), Matías Moncada (Don Alvaro/Don Fernando), Fan Zhou (Serafina), Greta Doveri (Chiara), Hyun-Seo Davide Park (Don Ramiro), Sung-Hwan Damien Park (Picaro), Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Orchestra Gli Originali, Sesto Quatrini, Gianluca Falaschi (director)
As revivals of forgotten operas go this is a gem: a clever staging, finely sung, of an opera that owes its 200 years’ neglect more to the circumstances of its making than to the music. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Donizetti: Zoraida di Granata
Konu Kim, Zuzana Marková, Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano), Tuty Hernàndez, Lilla Takács, Valerio Morelli, Orchestra Gli Originali, Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Salvo Sgrò, Bruno Ravella, Teatro alla Scala (opera company), Alberto Zanardi
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Roberto de Candia (Don Pasquale), Giulia Mazzola (Norina), Javier Camarena (Ernesto), Dario Sogos (Malatesta)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Iván López-Reynoso, Amélie Niermeyer
the revelation is Giulia Mazzola, a member (like Sogos) of the festival's young artist scheme, a sparky actress who convinces as a workingclass confidence trickster but sings with the most tender,... —
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Nicola Vaccaj: Giulietta e Romeo
Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor), Vasa Stajkic (bass), Paoletta Marrocu (soprano), Christian Senn (bass), Raffaella Lupinacci (mezzo-soprano), Leonor Bonilla (soprano)
Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Sesto Quatrini (conductor), Cecilia Ligorio (director)
Vaccaj reveals himself as more than a journeyman composer. Even if the score suggests Rossini…Vaccaj’s version of the story does hold your attention…The cast is serviceable…However it’s Raffaella... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Francesco Cilea: Gloria
Ramaz Chikviladze, Anastasia Bartoli, Franco Vassallo, Carlo Ventre, Alessandro Abis, Elena Schirru, Alessandro Frabotta, Giovanni Andreoli, Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Lirico Di Cagliari, Antonio Albanese, Francesco Cilluffo
The score glows with colour and atmosphere – Puccini is the obvious comparison, though some of the orchestral writing is reminiscent of the young Korngold. In any case, Cilluffo is an expert... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Handel/Leo: Rinaldo
Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Loriana Castellano (Almirena), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo), Francesca Ascioti (Argante), Ana Victória Pitts (A Christian Magician), Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Giorgio Sangati (director)
Sangati’s staging, mixing (vaguely) 18th-century costumes, Venice carnival masks and modernist camp, is unpretentious and uncluttered. The substitute arias, often short-breathed, cannot rival... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Francesco Cavalli: Il Xerse
Carlo Vistoli (Xerse), Ekaterina Protsenki (Amastre), Gaia Petrone (Arsamene), Carolina Lippo (Romilda), Dioklea Hoxha (Adelanta), Carlo Allemano (Ariodate), Nicolo Donini (Aristone), Nicolo Balducci (Periarco), Aco Biscevix (Elviro), Mario Fumarola (Cupido), Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo, Ferderico...
this enterprising recording can be recommended to lovers of Baroque opera. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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