DVD Video, Dynamic (label)
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Special offer. 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: 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. 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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Special offer. 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. Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam
Giorgio Caoduro (Tsar), Juan Francisco Gatell (Pietro Flimann), Andrea Concetti (Wambett), Irina Dubrovskaya (Marietta), Aya Wakizono (Carlotta), Pietro Di Bianco (Leforte), Pasquale Scircoli (Alì Mahmed), Alessandro Ravasio (An Officer)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera,...
This production doesn’t feature any stars, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-acted romp. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande
Roberto De Candia (Pietro Il Grande), Loriana Castellano (Caterina), Paola Gradina (Madama Fritz), Nina Solodovnikova (Annetta Mazepa), Francisco Brito (Carlo Scavronski), Marco Filippo Romano (Ser Cuccupis), Tommaso Barea (Firman-Trombest), Marcello Nardis (Hondedisky), Stefano Gentili (Notaio),...
The comedy roles shine brightest here. Marco Filippo Romano stands out with his characterful interpretation of the patter role, the pompous Magistrate Ser Cuccupis...The central lovers are less... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Donizetti: L'Ange de Nisida
Florian Sempey (Don Fernand d'Aragon), Roberto Lorenzi (Don Gaspar), Konu Kim (Leone de Casaldi), Lidia Fridman (La comtesse Sylvia de Linares), Federico Benetti (Le Moine), Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Jean-Luc Tingaud, Francesco Micheli
Though the orchestral pacing here is slow at times, the three principals perform with vocal and dramatic commitment. Konu Kim has a light, pure tenor voice expressive of great anguish; baritone... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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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: 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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Special offer. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Désirée Rancatore, Roberto De Biasio, Luca Grassi & Enrico Giuseppe Iori
Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti, Antonino Fogliani (conductor) & Francesco Esposito (director)
