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Special offer. Donizetti: Olivo e Pasquale
Bruno Taddia (Olivo), Filippo Morace (Pasquale), Laura Giordano (Isabella), Pietro Adaini (Camillo), Matteo Macchioni (Le Bross), Edoardo Milletti (Columella), Silvia Beltrami (Matilde), Giovanni Romeo (Diego)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala Coro Donizetti Opera, Federico Maria Sardelli
The piece grows in dramatic stature as it proceeds. The final scene is gripping… Frederico Maria Sardelli conducts with vigour. —
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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. 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: 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. 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. 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... —
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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. 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. Francesco Antonio Boerio (attr.): Bello Tiempo Passato
Pino de Vittorio, Giuseppe Naviglio, Olga Cafiero, Rosario Totaro, Orchestra Cappella Neapolitana, Daniele Coccia, Antonio Florio
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Special offer. Umberto Giordano: Siberia
Sonya Yoncheva (Stephana), Giorgi Sturua (Vassili), George Petean (Gléby), Caterina Piva (Nikona), Giorgio Misseri (Il Principe Alexis), Antonio Garés (Ivan), Orchestra e Coro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Noseda, Roberto Andò
It’s handsomely done in visual terms and works surprisingly well. But it ’s the artistry with which the piece is tackled that convinces one that Siberia is unfairly neglected: the richness of... —
