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Special offer. Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano
Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Federico Barbarossa), Francesco Musini (Primo Console di Milano), Federico Benetti (Secondo Consolo di Milano), Gabriele Sagona (Il Podesta di Como), Leonardo Lopez Linares (Rolando), Dimitra Theodossiou (Lida), Andrew Richards (Arrigo), Giovanni Guagliardo (Marcovaldo), Sharon...
the solo singing, particularly of the principal men, is distinctly better than the setting or orchestral support...Theodossiou’s strong voice and committed acting have their virtues. However,... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Stiffelio
Roberto Aronica (Stiffelio), Yu Guanqun (Lina), Roberto Frontali (Stankar), Gabriele Magnione (Raffaele), George Andguladze (Jorg), Cosimo Vassallo (Federico), Lorelay Solis (Dorotea)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni (conductor) & Guy Montavon (stage director)
The golden timbre of Roberto Aronica graces the title role...His commanding tenor makes one sit up and listen, with some notable long-breathed phrasing and a smooth legato a joy to hear...[Yu... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Stiffelio
Roberto Aronica (Stiffelio), Yu Guanqun (Lina), Roberto Frontali (Stankar), Gabriele Magnione (Raffaele), George Andguladze (Jorg), Cosimo Vassallo (Federico), Lorelay Solis (Dorotea)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni (conductor) & Guy Montavon (stage director)
The golden timbre of Roberto Aronica graces the title role...His commanding tenor makes one sit up and listen, with some notable long-breathed phrasing and a smooth legato a joy to hear...[Yu... —
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Kristine Opolais (Tatyana), Lena Belkina (Olga), Artur Rucinski (Onegin), Dmitri Korchak (Lensky), Günther Groissböck (Gremin), Margarita Nekrasova (Filipyevna), Helene Schneiderman (Larina), Emilio Sanchez (Triquet), Toni Navarrate (Guillot), Aldo Heo (Captain), Simon Lim (Zaretsky)
Orquestra...
Opolais's physical grace and fine lyric-dramatic soprano would elsewhere embody the young and older Tatyana's; baritone Artur Rucinski phrases the Act 1 arioso better than anyone since Dmitri... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Leo Nucci (Simon Boccanegra), Robert Scandiuzzi (Jacopo Fiesco), Simone Piazzola (Paolo Albiani), Paolo Pecchioli (Pietro), Tamar Iveri (Amelia/Maria), Francesco Meli (Gabriele Adorno)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Daniele Callegari
The solo singing is adequate and often more than that and dominated by Leo Nucci’s portrayal of the eponymous role...Scandiuzzi as Boccanegra’s implacable foe, Fiesco, is sonorous and acts well...Tamar... —
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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. Puccini: Tosca
Karine Babajanyan (Tosca), Piotr Beczala (Cavaradossi), Carlos Álvarez (Scarpia), Wiener Staatsoper, Marco Armiliato, Margarethe Wallmann
Álvarez is an old hand at curdling the blood, and Cavaradossi’s torture is repellent…[Babajanyan's] plaintive lyric voice is appealing but she rarely unleashes her stage tigress even when she... —
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We Are Musical - Musical Highlights From Vienna
Carin Filipčić, Maya Hakvoort, Vanessa Heinz, Wietske van Tongeren, Gino Emnes, Oedo Kuipers, Lukas Perman, Mark Seibert, Orchester der Vereinigten Bühnen Wien
