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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Maximilian Schmitt (Tamino), Christina Landshamer (Pamina), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Íride Martínez (Königin der Nacht), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Monostatos), Nina Lejderman ((Papagena)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Marc...
Freshness of vision, emotional openness, genuine ensemble theatricality, a robustly physical sense of adventure humorous and serious (but never portentous) by turns, and an underlying directorial... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Ermonela Jaho (Cio-Cio San), Marcelo Puente (Pinkerton), Scott Hendricks (Sharpless), Carlo Bosi (Goro), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki), Jeremy White (Bonze)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano. Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier
Pappano is particularly alert to Puccini borrowing traditional Japanese melodies; at times he makes you hear this score, as well as the drama on stage, as a tug of war between East and West…It’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta), Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus), Thomas Allen (Music Master), Kate Lindsey (Composer)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Katharina Thoma
Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Opera Choice
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
RecommendedLauren Cuthbertson (Clara), Federico Bonelli (Prince), Francesca Hayward (Sugar-Plum Fairy), Alexander Campbell (Nutcracker), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer)
The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Boris Gruzin
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
RecommendedLauren Cuthbertson (Clara), Federico Bonelli (Prince), Francesca Hayward (Sugar-Plum Fairy), Alexander Campbell (Nutcracker), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer)
The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Boris Gruzin
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger (dir.)
Musically, it is an almost unqualified success…The settings and costumes are wildly miscellaneous…The singers, mainly young and comparatively unfamiliar, are all personable and have attractive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte
Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger (dir.)
Musically, it is an almost unqualified success…The settings and costumes are wildly miscellaneous…The singers, mainly young and comparatively unfamiliar, are all personable and have attractive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Dvořák: Rusalka
Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka), David Butt Philip (Prince), Matthew Rose (Vodník), Emma Bell (Foreign Princess), Sarah Connolly (Ježibaba)
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Opera Chorus, Natalie Abrahami, Ann Yee, Semyon Bychkov
Grigorian’s dramatic commitment is never in doubt...Bychkov conducts it wonderfully well, too, his spacious speeds allowing both emotion and detail to register fully. There are moments of yearning... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Richard van Allan (Don Alfonso), Kiri Te Kanawa (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Dorabella), Daniela Mazzucato (Despina)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Opera Chorus, Colin Davis
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones...
Moll is a genuinely basso profundo Ochs, with the repartee between him and 'cousin' Resi in Act 1 a highlight...[Murray] blends touchingly with Bonney, and sets the Act II quarrel alight. —
