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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Valentina Farcas (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone), State Choir Latvija, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Paavo Järvi
A sense of momentum as well as occasion lends an unusual spirit of celebration, quite alien to both the sombre tread of most symphonic performances and the carefully cultivated archaism of ‘period’... —
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Julie Fuchs (Adèle), Philippe Talbot (Le Comte Ory), Gaëlle Arquez (Isolier), Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Ragonde), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Rambaud)
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Les éléments, Louis Langrée, Denis Podalydès (director), Christian Lacroix (designer)
In this recent Paris staging, it is the second act which delights rather more than the first… The Opéra Comique’s Francophone cast is led by Julie Fuchs’s sweet-toned Countess… Talbot is excellent,... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Attila
Ildebrando D´Arcangelo, Simone Piazzola, Maria José Siri, Fabio Sartori, Gianluca Floris, Antonio di Matteo
Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Michele Mariotti, Daniele Abbado (director)
Mariotti coaxes suitable delicacy and drama from the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in a consistently assured reading of the score. Daniele Abbado’s 2016 production is vaguely Game... —
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Special offer. Gluck: Alceste
Dorothea Röschmann (Alceste), Charles Castronovo (Admète), Michael Nagy (High Priest of Apollo), Bayerische Staatsoper, Antonello Manacorda
The chorus and orchestra under Antonello Manacorda are fine, as is Tiziano Mancini’s video direction. —
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Grieg: Peer Gynt
Jakob Feyferlik, Alice Firenze, Wiener Staatsballett, Wiener Staatsoper, Simon Hewett
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Special offer. Verdi: La Traviata
Svetla Vassileva (Violetta), Massimo Giordano (Alfredo), Vladimir Stoyano (Germont), Daniela Pini (Flora), Gianlua Floris (Gastone), Roberto Tagliavini (Dottore Grenvil), Armando Gabba (Barone Douphol), Filippo Polinelli (Marchese d'Obigny)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Yuri Temirkanov
a thank you to the Stage Directors Karl-Ernst and Ursel Herrmann who have given us the opera in a form Verdi would have recognised...Vassileva makes for a young, beautiful and appropriately... —
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Special offer. Wagner: The Ring (highlights)
Das Rheingold
Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), John Daszak (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner) Sabina von Walter (Freia), Anna Larsson (Fricka), Christa Mayer (Erda), Silvia Vázquez (Woglinde), Ann-Katrin...
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Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia HWV22
Tim Mead (Admeto), Marie Arnet (Alceste), William Berger (Ercole), Andrew Radley (Orindo), David Bates (Trasimede), Kirsten Blaise (Antigona), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Meraspe)
Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
McGegan conducts the Festival Orchestra with a sure sense of style and no exaggerated stylisation...[Dörrie] has succeeded in creating a distinctive setting, satisfying the eye and yet allowing... —
