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Special offer. Rossini: Semiramide
Myrtò Papatanasiu (Semiramide), Ann Hallenberg (Arsace), Josef Wagner (Assur), Robert McPherson (Idreno), Igor Bakan (Oroe), Julianne Gearhart (Azema) & Eduardo Santamaria (Mitrane)
Symfonisch Orkest van de Vlaamse Opera & Koor van de Vlaamse Opera, Alberto Zedda
While Hallenberg's coloratura proves consistently superb, the plum-luscious contralto tone is generally too soft-grained...The singer's unfailing musicality and sincerity offer much pleasure,... —
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Special offer. Teatro alla Scala: The Golden Years Vol.1
Enzo Biagi interviews Maria Callas, Mario Del Monaco, Mirella Freni, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Romano Gandolfi, Antonino Votto, Luca Ronconi, Claudio Abbado & Giulietta Simionato
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Special offer. D. Scarlatti: La Dirindina & Albinoni: Pimpinone
Elena De Simone (Dirindina), Filippo Pina Castiglioni (Liscione) & Carlo Torriani (Don Carissimo), Carlo Torriani (Pimpinone) & Elena De Simone (Vespetta)
Chamber Orchestra Lo Splendore di San Marco, Chamber Orchestra Le Humane Virtù, Carlo Torriani (director), Diego Bortolato (conductor),...
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Special offer. Rossini: La Gazzetta
Cinzia Forte (Lisetta), Enrico Marabelli (Don Pomponio), Laurent Kubla (Filippo), Edgardo Rocha (Alberto), Julie Bailly (Doralice), Monica Minarelli (Madama La Rose), Jacques Calatayud (Anselmo) & Roger Joakim (Monsù Traversen)
Orchestra and Chorus of Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Jan Schultsz...
The vocal honours go to the Uruguayan tenor Edgardo Rocha as Alberto, his free and easy production rising to an effortless top register, while Laurent Kubla and Jacques Calatayud make their... —
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Special offer. Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione di Dario
Carlo Allemano (Dario), Sara Mingardo (Statira), Delphine Galou (Argene), Riccardo Novaro (Niceno), Roberta Mameli (Alinda), Lucia Cirillo (Oronte), Veronica Cangemi (Arpago), Romina Tomasoni (Flora) & Cullen Candy (Ombra di Ciro/Oracolo di Apollo)
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torin, Ottavio...
[Dantone] draws idiomatic, sharply articulated playing from his crack ensemble. Outstanding among the cast are Sara Mingardo, who paints the role of Statira with an expressive palette of colours,... —
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Special offer. Donizetti: Le Nozze in Villa
Gaia Petrone (Sabina), Omar Montanari (Don Petronio), Fabio Capitanucci (Trifoglio), Giorgio Misseri (Claudio), Manuela Custer (Anastasia), Claudia Urru (Rosaura), Daniele Lettieri (Anselmo), Orchestra e Coro Gli Originali, Stefano Montanari
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Special offer. Donizetti: Le Nozze in Villa
Gaia Petrone (Sabina), Omar Montanari (Don Petronio), Fabio Capitanucci (Trifoglio), Giorgio Misseri (Claudio), Manuela Custer (Anastasia), Claudia Urru (Rosaura), Daniele Lettieri (Anselmo), Orchestra e Coro Gli Originali, Stefano Montanari
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Special offer. Nicola Porpora: L'Angelica
Teresa Iervolino (Orlando), Paola Valentina Molinari (Medoro), Ekaterina Bakanova (Angelica), Gaia Petrone (Licori), Sergio Foresti (Titiro), Barbara Massaro (Tirsi)
La Lira di Orfeo, Federico Maria Sardelli, Gianluca Falaschi
Graced by the participation of dancers, director/designer Gianluca Falaschi’s attractive staging mixes ancient and modern with wit; intelligently acted, it is also very capably sung...the period-orchestra... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Martin Iliev (Siegmund), Tsvetana Bandalovska (Sieglinde), Nikolay Petrov (Wotan), Bayasgalan Dashnyam (Brünnhilde), Angel Hristov (Hunding), Rumyana Petrova (Fricka), Sofia Opera and Ballet
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Special offer. Spontini: Fernando Cortez (La conquète du Mexique)
Dario Schmunck (Fernand Cortez), Alexia Voulgaridou (Amazily), Luca Lombardo (Télasco), Gianluca Margheri (Morales), David Ferri Durà (Alvar), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Jean-Luc Tingaud, Cecilia Ligorio
Tingaud knows how the music should go and obtains creditable results from serviceable forces…Schmunck’s Cortez looks martial and weathered—like an Aeneas before Venus’s rejuvenating makeover—and... —
