C Major
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Special offer. Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Saimir Pirgu (Ernani), Guanqun Yu (Elvira), Franco Vassallo (Don Carlo), Goran Jurić (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Lotte de Beer, Enrique Mazzola
Singing is what makes any Ernani recording or video, and conductor Enrique Mazzola lays a taut, solid foundation with a Verdian sensibility to the often expansive phrasing...Guanqun Yu (Elvira)... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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The physicality of Nelsons's conducting...is assuredly part of his attraction...Aside from Nelsons's gymnastics, the players' ease and palpable enjoyment regularly catch the cameras' eyes. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, DVD of the Month
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Ein Sommernachts Traum (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
A Ballet by John Neumeier
Hamburg Ballet (ballet company)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mauro Peter (Belmonte), Lenneke Ruiten (Konstanze), Sabine Devieilhe (Blonde), Maximilian Schmitt (Pedrillo), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Chorus of Teatro alla Scala & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta, Giorgio Strehler
Strehler/Testi handles the balance between the comic and the serious astutely…Ruiten’s superb performance – touchingly acted, fluently sung – makes you both believe and care…Devieilhe soars... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Grand Opening Concert
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 11.01.2017
Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock
There are plenty of musical highlights – oboist Kalev Kuljus’s exquisite ‘Pan’, from Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; a lithe, light-textured finale from Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony;... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Bregenzer Festspiele
Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena), Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl
The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carigni
Holten says he’s keen to steer clear of the Spanish clichés on the one hand, and to examine Carmen as a real person on the other…It’s no earth-shattering insight but it does form the basis for... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Special offer. Massenet: Don Quichotte
Gábor Bretz, David Stout, Anna Goryachova,
Wiener Symphoniker, Daniel Cohen, Mariame Clément
Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Yusif Eyvazov (Andrea Chénier), Anna Netrebko (Maddalena de Coigny), Luca Salsi (Carlo Gérard), Annalisa Stroppa (Bersi), Mariana Pentcheva (La comtesse de Coigny)
Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Mario Martone
Netrebko’s Maddalena offers a blend of conviction and artifice. She’s distinguished in terms of her endless supply of lovely tone and her shaping of individual phrases, and on that level, rather... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Bellini: La Sonnambula
Giovanni Battista Parodi (Rodolfo), Julie Mellor (Teresa), Jessica Pratt (Amina), Shalva Mukeria (Elvino)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Gabriele Ferro
Bepi Morassi's production...takes the piece with a pinch of irony, but arguably no more than intended by its creators...Pratt's blonde bombshell of an Amina shows good range of technical skills... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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