Opus Arte
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MacMillan Celebrated
Isabella Gasparini, Giacomo Rovero, Sae Maeda, Valentino Zucchetti, Ashley Dean, Marcelino Sambé, Francesca Hayward, Sarah Lamb (dancer), William Bracewell, Melissa Hamilton, Joseph Sissens, Mariko Sasaki, Koen Kessels
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Special offer. Handel: Semele
Emma Pearson (Semele), Amitai Pati (Jupiter/Apollo), Sarah Castle (Juno/Ino), Paul Whelan (Cadmus/Somnus), Stephen Diaz (Athamas), Chelsea Dolman (Iris), Sashe Angelovski (Priest)
New Zealand Opera Chorus, Holy Trinity Cathedral Choir, New Zealand Opera Baroque Orchestra, Peter Walls
led by Emma Pearson’s moody Semele and Amitai Pati’s burly Jupiter (doubling as Apollo), with fine support from countertenor Stephen Diaz as Athamas and Sarah Castle’s fire-cracker Juno (doubling... —
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Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Gerald Finley (Guillaume Tell), Malin Byström (Mathilde), John Osborn (Arnold Melchtal), Sofia Fomina (Jemmy), Nicolas Courjal (Gesler), Alexander Vinogradov (Walter Furst), Enkelejda Shkosa (Hedwige), Eric Halfvarson (Melcthal), Michael Colvin (Rodolphe), Samuel Dale Johnson (Leuthold), Enea Scala...
Musically it has a lot going for it, not least the rarely performed and ambitious score itself, conducted by Antonio Pappano with his customary zeal and stylistic insight. The leading role of... —
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Special offer. Rossini: La scala di seta
Daniele Zanfardino (Dormont), Olga Peretyatko (Giulia), Anna Malavasi (Lucilla), José Manuel Zapata (Dorvil), Carlo Lepore (Blansac) & Paolo Bordogna (Germano)
Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Claudio Scimone (conductor) & Damiano Michieletto (stage director)
The cast is uniformly good. With her film-star looks and shiny top register, Olga Peretyatko has a lot of fun as Giulia, Carlo Lepore shows off as the vacuous Blansac, Jose Manuel Zapata makes... —
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Leontina Vaduva (Juliette), Sarah Walker (Gertrude), Robert Lloyd (Frère Laurence), Peter Sidhom (Capulet), Paul Charles Clarke (Tybalt), David Wilson-Johnson (Le Prince), Jeremy White (Gregorio), François Le Roux (Mercutio), Anne Maria Panzarella (Stéphano), Richard Halton...
Leontina Vaduva is a touching Juliette… There's real passion in her Tomb aria… Roméo is the role that catapulted tenor Roberto Alagna into a celebrity. Best of all is Charles Mackerras conducting... —
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Special offer. Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Alex Esposito (Faraone), Olga Senderskaya (Amaltea), Dmitry Korchak (Osiride), Sonia Ganassi (Elcia), Enea Scala (Mambre), Riccardo Zanellato (Moses), Yijie Shi (Aronne) & Chiara Amarù (Amenofi)
Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna & Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto...
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Sally Matthews (Countess), Vito Priante (Figaro), Audun Iversen (Count), Lydia Teuscher (Susanna), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Andrew Shore (Bartolo), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Alan Oke (Don Basilio)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor)...
Grandage's 2011 Glyndebourne production excels where it matters: in the truthfulness and warmth of these very human characters' interrelationships...Priante is simply the best [Figaro] I've... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Sally Matthews (Countess), Vito Priante (Figaro), Audun Iversen (Count), Lydia Teuscher (Susanna), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Andrew Shore (Bartolo), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Alan Oke (Don Basilio)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor)...
Grandage's 2011 Glyndebourne production excels where it matters: in the truthfulness and warmth of these very human characters' interrelationships...Priante is simply the best [Figaro] I've... —
