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Special offer. Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso, RV728
Sonia Prina (Orlando), Michela Antenucci (Angelica), Lucia Cirillo (Alcina), Loriana Castellano (Bradamante), Konstantin Derri (Medoro), Luigi Schifano (Ruggiero), Riccardo Novaro (Astolfo)
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Fabio Ceresa
If you like your Baroque opera understated or postmodern (or uncut) then Fabio Ceresa’s Orlando furioso is not for you. Taking Vivaldi’s opera absolutely at face value, the director delivers... —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Angela Meade (Giselda), Francesco Meli (Oronte), Alex Esposito (Pagano), Giuseppe Gipali (Arvino), Livinia Bini (Viclinda), Alexandra Zabala (Sofia), Antonio Di Matteo (Pirro), Giuseppe Capoferri (Acciano), Joshua Sanders (Prior of Milan)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio Torino, Michele Mariotti...
“Best of all is Angela Meade’s Giselda... she rips excitingly through the role’s challenges, bringing the house down with a thrilling Act II aria.” —
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Special offer. Meyerbeer: Margherita d'Anjou
Giulia De Blasis (Margherita d’Anjou), Lorenzo Izzo (Bellapunta), Dielli Hoxha (Orner), Gaia Petrone (Isaura), Anton Rositskiy (The Duke of Lavarenne), Elena Tereshchenko (Gertrude), Arcangelo Carbotti (Edoardo), Bastian Thomas Kohl (Riccardo)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
It’s valuable now to have the opportunity actually to see how this melodrama semiserio can work onstage, especially when the semiserio is courageously given full rein…Luisi keeps a relaxed hand... —
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Special offer. Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth
Jessica Pratt (Elisabetta), Carmela Remigio (Amelia), Stefan Pop (Warney), Xabier Anduaga (Leicester), Dario Russo (Lambourne) & Federica Vitali (Fanny)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza (conductor) & Maria Pilar Pérez Aspa (director)
Jessica Pratt’s Elizabeth takes a while to hit form, while as her rival Amelia Carmela Remigio is both physically and vocally expressive, offering liquid tone. As the two-timing Earl of Leicester,... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Le Trouvère
Giuseppe Gipali (Manrique), Franco Vassallo (Comte de Luna), Roberta Mantegna (Léonore), Nino Surguladze (Azucena)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Roberto Abbado, Robert Wilson
immensely moving... moments of comparative greatness and the involvement of the soloists is tangible. —
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Special offer. Offenbach: Un mari à la porte
Patrizio La Placa (Henri Martel), Francesca Benitez (Rosita), Matteo Mezzaro (Florestan Ducroquet) & Marina Ogii (Suzanne), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli
it’s fun and given a suitably zingy production … best of all is Francesca Benitez … she has the big hit number, a Valse Tyrolienne, one of Offenbach’s frothiest coloratura showpieces, and she... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Nabucco
Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Nabucco), Anna Pirozzi (Abigaille), Riccardo Zanellato (Zaccaria), Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Ismaele), Alisa Kolosova (Fenena), Dongho Kim (Priest), Sofía Esparza (Anna), Mark Serdiuk (Abdallo)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Jordi Bernàcer
Enkhabat’s striking presence and strong, disciplined singing mark Nabucco out as a standard military dictator. Though not always in perfect vocal control, Saioa Hernández is an energetic, grand-scale... —
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Special offer. Gaetano Donizetti: Il Diluvio Universale
Nahuel Di Pierro (bass), Nicolò Donini, Davide Zaccherini, Eduardo Martínez, Sabrina Gárdez, Erica Artina, Sophie Burns, Enea Scala, Giuliana Gianfaldoni (soprano), Maria Elena Pepi (mezzo-soprano), Wangmao Wang, Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Salvo Sgrò, Matteo Ricchetti, Orchestra Donizetti...
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Special offer. Donizetti: Lucie de Lammermoor
Caterina Sala (Lucie), Patrick Kabongo (Edgard), Vito Priante (Henri), Roberto Lorenzi (Raimond), Julien Henric (Arturo), David Astorga (Gilbert)
Gli Originali, Coro dell’accademia Teatro alla Scala, Pierre Dumoussaud, Jacopo Spirei
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Special offer. Puccini: Il Tabarro
Franco Vassallo (Michele), Angelo Villari (Luigi), María José Siri (Giorgetta), Anna Maria Chiuri (La Frugola), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli, Denis Krief (director)
This functional staging is doubtless similar to countless other Tabarros but its lack of glitz and gimmicks forces our attention onto some excellent musical and dramatic performances. Maria... —
