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Special offer. Teatro alla Scala: The Golden Years Vol.2
Enzo Biagi interviews Luciana Savginano, Riccardo Muti, Giorgio Strehler, Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato & Antonino Votto
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Special offer. Giordano, U: Fedora
Daniela Dessì (Fedora), Fabio Armiliato (Loris), Alfonso Antoniozzi (De Siriex), Daria Kovalenko (Olga)
Carlo Felice Theatre, Valerio Galli
[Dessì’s] performance displays powerful, authentically tangy tone, rock-solid technique and a touching stage presence. There’s some squalliness at the top of the voice, admittedly, but this... —
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Special offer. Giordano, U: Fedora
Daniela Dessì (Fedora), Fabio Armiliato (Loris), Alfonso Antoniozzi (De Siriex), Daria Kovalenko (Olga)
Carlo Felice Theatre, Valerio Galli
[Dessì’s] performance displays powerful, authentically tangy tone, rock-solid technique and a touching stage presence. There’s some squalliness at the top of the voice, admittedly, but this... —
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Special offer. Mayr: Che originali! & Donizetti: Pigmalione
Bruno de Simone (Don Febeo), Chiara Amarù (Donna Aristea), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Don Carolino), Angela Nisi (Donna Rosina), , Antonino Siragusa (Pigmalione) & Aya Wakizono (Galatea); Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Gianluca Capuano, Roberto Catalano
Donizetti was just 19 when he composed Pigmalione and it was only premiered in 1960. Frankly the pupil out-masters his teacher…Siragusa is magnificent as Pygmalion, begging the gods to bring... —
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Special offer. Mayr: Che originali! & Donizetti: Pigmalione
Bruno de Simone (Don Febeo), Chiara Amarù (Donna Aristea), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Don Carolino), Angela Nisi (Donna Rosina), , Antonino Siragusa (Pigmalione) & Aya Wakizono (Galatea); Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Gianluca Capuano, Roberto Catalano
Donizetti was just 19 when he composed Pigmalione and it was only premiered in 1960. Frankly the pupil out-masters his teacher…Siragusa is magnificent as Pygmalion, begging the gods to bring... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Le Villi
Elia Fabbian (Guglielmo Wulf), Maria Teresa Leva (Anna), Leonardo Caimi (Roberto), Tony Laudadio (Il narratore)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Marco Angius, Francesco Saponaro
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Special offer. Verdi: Ernani
Francesco Meli (Ernani), Roberto Frontali (Don Carlo), Vitalij Kowaljow (Don Ruy Gomez da Silva), María José Siri (Elvira), Xenia Tziouvaras (Giovanna), Joseph Dahdah (Don Riccardo), Davide Piva (Jago), Lorenzo Fratini, Orchestra and Chorus Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Leo Muscato, James Conlon
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Special offer. Antonio Vivaldi: Il Bajazet
Renato Dolcini (Bajazet), Sonia Prina (Tamerlano), Loriana Castellano (Asteria), Raffaele Pe (Andronico), Lucia Cirillo (Irene), Valeria La Grotta (Idaspe), Giovanni Imbroglia (mime), Marco Mantovani (mime), Alberto Busettini (harpsichord), Nicola Lamon (harpsichord), Francesco Ferrarini (cello),...
Pé is magnificent as Andronico with impeccable legato and a velvety lower register...Sardelli conducting a Baroque orchestra shorn of theorboes and trimmed of woodwinds but with fizzing violins... —
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Special offer. Alfano: Risurrezione
Anne Sophie Duprels, Matthew Vickers, Leon Kim, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Francesco Lanzillotta, Rosetta Cucchi
The leading performances here, especially Duprels’s, are worth hearing and seeing, and the work, an archetypal example of full-on verismo, is an intriguing memory of one of opera’s historic... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Martin Illiev (Siegfried), Krasimir Dinev (Mime), Biser Georgiev (Alberich), Martin Tsonev (Wanderer), Petar Buchkov (Fafner), Rumyana Petrova (Erda), Bayasgalan Dashnyam (Brunnhilde), Lyubov Metodieva (Woodbird), Sofia Opera and Ballet, Pavel Baleff
there is some very fine singing here. Martin Iliev is a magnificent Siegfried with a properly heroic tone and enviable stamina. More than that, we watch him grow psychologically through three... —
