C Major
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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. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Ralf Lukas (Gunther), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Elisabete Matos (Gutrune), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Waltraute)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
Its brilliant use of computer graphic backgrounds and acrobatic mimes shows one can stage a truly modern, theatrically advantageous Ring without distorting its genuinely central concepts - Wagner's. —
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Special offer. Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
Vittoria Yeo (Giovanna), Luciano Ganci (Carlo VII), Vittorio Vitelli (Giacomo), Gabriele Mangione (Delil), Luciano Leoni (Talbot)
I Virtuosi Italiani, Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Ramón Tebar, Sasken Boddege, Peter Greenaway
[Vittoria Yeo is] a plucky Giovanna, if without Netrebko’s vocal glamour, a touch sour on occasion,. Luciano Ganci forces quite a lot as Carlo but it’s often an attractive voice, and solid baritone... —
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Erwin Schrott (Escamillo), Marina Poplavskaya (Micaëla)
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Marc Piollet
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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
Anna Netrebko (Turandot), Yusif Eyvazov (Calaf), Maria Teresa Leva (Liù), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Timur)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona, Marco Armiliato, Franco Zeffirelli
This Verona account is from the 2022 festival and the big draw is Anna Netrebko in the title-role (a role she sings at Covent Garden next season). She’s very good. In an ice-blue gown, sporting... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
Rebeka Lokar (Turandot), Jorge de León (Calaf), Erika Grimaldi (Liù), In-Sung Sim (Timur)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda, Stefano Poda
The show forges its own hallucinatory logic and looks stylish…[but] it sometimes feels as if the singers themselves are inconvenient bit-parts…Noseda will be missed at Turin, as this punchy... —
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A magnificent account of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony…[in] the devastating last movement, with its shatteringly dissonant climax, Thielemann left me a prostrate supplicant for mercy…seeing as well... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
Mlada Khudoley (Turandot), Manuel von Senden (Altoum), Michael Ryssov (Timur), Riccardo Massi (Calaf), Guanqun Yu (Liu)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Guanqun Yu's schoolgirl Liu, sporting beret and pigtails, is the pick of the cast. She delivers a beautifully affecting, 'Tu che di gel sei cinta'…Riccardo Massi sings attractively as Calaf,... —
