C Major
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Pappano says illuminating things about Callas’s voice and what she did with it…Kristine Opolais is interesting about her acting…Tito Gobbi is his expansive self…The performance itself remains... —
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Special offer. Handel: Serse
Gaëlle Arquez (Xerxes), Elizabeth Sutphen (Romilda), Lawrence Zazzo (Arsamene), Louise Alder (Atalanta), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Amastre), Thomas Faulkner (Elviro), Brandon Cedel (Ariodate)
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Constantinos Carydis, Tilmann Köhler
Köhler stages the emotional rollercoaster of the first two acts around a huge dining table…The idea of the broken feast perfectly captures the disruptive nature of Xerxes’s tyranny…Arquez is... —
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Flute Concertos at Sanssouci
A Tribute to Frederick the Great
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) & Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Kammerakademie Potsdam
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Yo-Yo Ma: The Bach Project - Cello Suites
From the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
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Special offer. Janáček: The Makropulos Case
Angela Denoke (Emilia Marty), Raymond Very (Albert Gregor), Peter Hoare (Vitek), Jurgita Adamonyte (Krista), Johan Reuter (Jaroslav Prus), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Dr. Kolenaty), Ales Briscein (Janek)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Esa-Pekka Salonen
The vocal performances are nearly all compelling. The men - Janacek's usual weak and neurotic bunch - are entirely believable...Both the lead and female roles are remarkably complete. Jurgita... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Francesco Meli (Cavaradossi), Luca Salsi (Scarpia), Alfonso Antoniozzi (Sagrestano), Teatro Alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Davide Livermore
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Martin Summer (Sarastro), Yasmin Özkan (Queen of the Night), Martin Piskorski (Tamino), Fatma Said (Pamina), Till von Orlowski (Papageno), Sascha Emanuel Kramer (Monostatos), Theresa Zisser (Papagena); Teatro alla Scala, Ádám Fischer, Peter Stein
This is one of those performances which it is easy to criticise on many points, which yet overcomes its faults because it is overall so intensely alive and life-giving…Fischer, perhaps the leading... —
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Special offer. 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,... —
