Opus Arte
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Britten: Michelangelo Sonnets & Liszt: Petrarch Sonnets
Francesco Meli (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)
[Meli is] one of the great tenor hopes of his generation. This is a fresh and lively voice that pings out of the speakers...he essays Britten’s Michelangelo Sonnets and Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets,... —
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The Discovery Recitals - Jette Parker Young Artists
Francesca Chiejina (soprano), David Shipley (bass), Ashley Riches (baritone), David Junghoon Kim (tenor), Hanna Hipp (mezzo), Luís Gomes (tenor), Kiandra Howarth (soprano)
An excellent showcase of the Royal Opera House’s brightest young artists. Soprano Francesca Chiejina’s opening Crumb Three Early Songs are a particular highlight. —
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Conducted by Gavin Sutherland, the English National Ballet Philharmonic – which probably knows it better than anyone else – plays mostly well, though the string sound does not have the kind... —
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Joby Talbot: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Francesca Hayward, William Bracewell, James Hay, Lauren Cuthbertson (dancer), Bennet Gartside, Steven McRae, Nicol Edmonds, Gary Avis (dancer), Koen Kessels
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Special offer. Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Giorgio Zancanaro (Guido di Monforte), Enzo Capuano (Il sire di Bethune), Chris Merritt (Arrigo), Cheryl Studer (Elena)
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
it is Muti who, conducting tautly, ensures that this live performance carries high drama, with the orchestra too playing splendidly...the production is straightforward, with no crazy impositions... —
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Special offer. Verdi: La Traviata
Stage Director - Pier Luigi Pizzi
Norah Amsellem, José Bros, Renato Bruson, Itxaro Mentxaka, Maria Espada, Emilio Sánchez, David Rubiera & Marco Moncloa
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, Madrid, Jesús López Cobos
Pier Luigi Pizzi's updating of Traviata to occupied Paris, first seen in 2003 in Madrid, might seem gratuitous, but because of his skill as designer and his experience directing singers, the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, DVD of the Month
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Renée Fleming In Concert
Recorded live at the Salzburg Festival, August 2011
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann
You can immediately hear the classiness of the orchestral support...Thielemann's journey up the mountain is more a question of inner feeling than outward tone-painting...But the summit sequence... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, DVD Choice
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Miah Persson (Anne Trulove), Topi Lehtipuu (Tom Rakewell), Clive Bayley (Father Trulove), Matthew Rose (Nick Shadow), Susan Gorton (Mother Goose), Elena Manistina (Baba the Turk) & Graham Clark (Sellem)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)...
Full of colour and light, and brimming with wit, this is a production that lifts the performers...Lehtipuu conveys [Tom's] fresh-faced innocence, making his gradual demise all the more heart-breaking.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, DVD Choice
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo (Riccardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Renato), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), William Elvin (Silvano), Gwynne Howell (Samuele), Paul Hudson (Tom), Francis Egerton (Un Giudice), John Carr (Un servo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,...
Abbado motivates this traditional Otto Schenk staging using the Swedish setting. Domingo is a marvellously vivid Gustavo, Cappuccilli an implacable Anckarström, while Grist steals the soprano... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, DVD of the Month
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