C Major
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Francesco Meli (Riccardo), Vladimir Stoyanov (Renato), Kristin Lewis (Amelia), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Ulrica), Serena Gamberoni (Oscar), Filippo Polinelli (Silvano), Antonio Barbargallo (Samuel), Enrico Rinaldo (Tom)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Gianluigi Gelmetti
It's aptly cast - Francesco Meli's Riccardo with fine legato, Stoyanov an uncommonly civilised Renato whose remorse after the assassination is all the more credible, Samuel and Tom not overdone... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Susanna Branchini (Aida), Mariana Pentcheva (Amneris), Walter Fraccaro (Radames), Alberto Gazale (Amonasro), Carlo Malinverno (Il Re di Egitto), George Andguladze (Ramfis), Cosimo Vassallo (Un messaggiero), Yu Guanqun (Una sacerdotessa)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Antonino Fogliani
a musically strong and visually spectacular production...In a very traditional staging, Lee brings an enormous amount of visual detail to the opera...Aida and Amneris lead with superb performances,... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Oberto
Giovanni Battista Parodi (Oberto), Mariana Pentcheva (Cuniza), Giorgia Bertagni (Imelda), Fabio Sartori (Riccardo), Francesca Sassu (Leonora)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Antonello Allemandi
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Special offer. Verdi: Ernani
Marco Berti (Ernani), Carlo Guelfi (Don Carlo), Giacomo Prestia (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Susan Neves (Elvira), Nicoletta Zanini (Giovanna), Samuele Simoncini (Don Riccardo) & Alessandro Svab (Jago)
Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Parma, Antonello Allemandi
Berti’s Ernani has an effective vocal line and little stage persona, Carlo Guelfi’s baritone suddenly springs into life with his aria, and Giacomo Prestia is a slightly woolly-toned da Silva.... —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Leo Nucci (Guido di Monforte), Dario Russo (Il Sire di Bethune), Andrea Mastroni (Il Conte Vaudemont), Fabio Armiliato (Arrigo), Giacomo Prestia (Giovanni da Procida), Daniela Dessi (Elena), Adriana di Paola (Ninetta), Raoul d'Eramo (Danieli), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Tebaldo), Alessandro Battiato...
The singing and musicianship here is of a high standard and Zanetti conducts with verve...Certain aspects of Pier Luigi Pizzi’s production are good while others are somewhat disappointing. —
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Special offer. Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Recorded live at Bregenz Festival
Daniel Johansson (Hoffmann), Kerstin Avemo (Olympia, Giulietta), Mandy Fredrich (Antonia), Rachel Frenkel (Muse, Niklausse, Die Stimme der Mutter), Michael Volle (Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto)
Wiener Symphoniker, Johannes Debus, Stefan Herheim
Johansson’s big-voice Hoffmann lacks a genuine pianissimo but phrases elegantly…Fredrich and Frenkel are nicely stylish…playing and choral singing are both excellent —
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Special offer. Weber: Der Freischütz
Sara Jakubiak (Agathe), Christina Landshamer (Aennchen), Georg Zeppenfeld (Kaspar), Michael König (Max), Adrian Eröd (Ottakar), Albert Dohmen (Kuno), Andreas Bauer (Hermit), Sebastian Wartig (Kilian)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
This is supple, carefully sifted music-making, beautifully paced...The vocal casting is as precise and well calculated as the overall approach but the production seems to nervous of the work... —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Due Foscari
Leo Nucci (Francesco Foscari), Roberto De Biasio (Jacopo Foscari), Tatiana Serjan (Lucrezia Contarini), Roberto Tagliavini (Jacopo Loredano)
Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Parma, Donato Renzetti
Lee’s production of I due Foscari, set against a simple curved backdrop and beautifully costumed, works best on screen...with Nucci giving a baritonal masterclass in the title role, Tatiana... —
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2011
Anna Prohaska (soprano), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto) & Johan Botha (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus State Opera Vienna, Pierre Boulez
a beautifully shaded performance [of the Mahler] by Boulez and a superb cast —
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Marc Minkowski at Mozartwoche
Mozartwoche Salzburg, 2015
Francesco Corti (fortepiano), Thibault Noally (violin)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
