C Major
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Special offer. Verdi: Don Carlo
Giacomo Prestia (Filippo II), Mario Malagnini (Don Carlo), Simone Piazzola (Rodrigo), Luciano Montanaro (Il Grande Inquisitore), Cellia Costea (Elisabetta di Valois), Alla Pozniak (Eboli), Irene Candelier (Tebaldo/Una Voce dal Cielo), Antonio Feltracco (Il Conte di Lerma/Un Araldo Reale)
Orchestra...
Malagnini's Carlo has a top and the ability to use it that Franco Corelli wouldn't have disowned, and his relationship with Cellia Costia's Elisabetta brings tears to the eyes, as does Alla... —
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Anna Karenina – A Ballet By John Neumeier
Anna Laudere, Edvin Revazov, Ivan Urban, Aleix Martinez, Emilie Mazon, Hamburg Ballet, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Nathan Brock
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Claudio Sgura (Il Conte di Luna), Teresa Romano (Leonora), Mzia Nioradze (Azucena), Marcelo Alvarez (Manrico), Deyan Vatchkov (Ferrando), Cristina Giannelli (Ines), Roberto Jachini Virgili (Ruiz)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma
Large symbols...make an effective home for a serious Il Trovatore, precisely paced and balanced by Yuri Temirkanov...Especially notable is his handling of what one might term 'old' Verdi orchestral... —
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Special offer. Schubert: Fierrabras D 796
Michael Schade (Fierrabras), Julia Kleiter (Emma), Benjamin Bernheim (Eginhard), Dorothea Röschmann (Florinda), Markus Werba (Roland), Georg Zeppenfeld (Charlemagne), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Maragond), Manuel Walser (Brutamonte)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingo Metzmacher
This is an almost perfect performance, both vocally and in its staging and acting…Charlemagne is taken by the young and magnificent bass-baritone Georg Zeppenfeld, and Fierrabras himself, son... —
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Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace
Pauline Rathmann, Yumeji Matasufuji, Leah-Marian Jones, Valentino Worlitzsch
World Orchestra for Peace, World Choir for Peace, Karl Jenkins
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Handel: Messiah
Susan Gritton (soprano), Cornelia Horak (soprano), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Richard Croft (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone)
Ensemble Matheus & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
there are some penetrating ideas lurking behind the underlying premise, which in essence orbits around the moral, theological and familial fallout surrounding a suicide...the singing blazes... —
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Arabella
Renée Fleming (Arabella), Thomas Hampson (Mandryka), Gabriela Beňačková (Adelaide), Albert Dohmen (Waldner), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Zdenka), Daniel Behle (Matteo), Derek Welton (Dominik), Benjamin Bruns (Elemer), Daniela Fally (Fiakermilli)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Fleming's is a nuanced characterisation, with the right Straussian bloom save for the Act II duet. I just don't believe that this is a young girl grown up fast in the face of feckless parents...Show-stealers... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
From the 2017 Salzburg Easter Festival
Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Vitalij Kowaljow (Wotan), Peter Seiffert (Siegmund), Anja Harteros (Sieglinde), Christa Mayer (Fricka), Georg Zeppenfeld (Hunding)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
A for effort for the production team – but the real interest of this release is musical. Thielemann’s fourth recording of this opera assembles his strongest cast yet…Harteros is a clearly projected,... —
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Best of Verdi Arias
Staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi
Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez, Francesco Meli, Dimitra Theodossiou & Giacomo Prestia
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma
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Mozart: Davide Penitente
Christiane Karg (soprano), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor), Bartabas (choreographer)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Salzburger Bachchor, Académie équestre de Versailles, Marc Minkowski
The musical performance is good, the equine ballet is graceful —
