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Special offer. Ferdinando Paer: Agnese
María Rey-Joly (Agnese), Lucia Cirillo (Carlotta), Giulia Della Peruta, Vespina), Andrea Giovannini (Don Girolamo), Edgardo Rocha (Ernesto)
Filippo Morace (Don Pasquale), Federico Benetti (Il custode dei pazzi)
Markus Werba (Uberto), Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Diego Fasolis,...
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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. Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Luca Salsi (Rigoletto), Javier Camarena (Il Duca di Mantova), Enkeleda Kamani (Gilda), Alessio Cacciamani (Sparafucile), Caterina Piva (Maddalena)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Davide Livermore
Camarena, a star of the bel canto repertoire, eschews the ‘bravado’ approach taken by many tenors and brings a beautiful light, silvery tone to the role of the Duke. His voice pairs perfectly... —
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Special offer. Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Kostadin Andreev, Atanas Mladenov, Biser Georgiev, Peter Buchkov, Yordanka Derilova, Tsvetana Bandalovska, Petya Tsoneva, Dimitrinka Raycheva, Flora Tarpomanova, Tsveta Sarambelieva, Milena Gyurova, Silvia Teneva, Orchestra and Chorus of Sofia Opera and Ballet, Plamen Kartaloff, Maria Evstatieva,...
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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 (director)
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Special offer. Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Eleonora Buratto (soprano), Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo), Giorgio Berrugi (tenor), Roberto Tagliavini (bass)
Filarmonia Arturo Toscanini, Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Roberto Abbado
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Special offer. Ottorino Respighi: Maria Egiziaca
Francesca Dotto, Simone Alberghini, Vincenzo Costanzo, Michele Galbiati, Luigi Morassi, Ilaria Vanacore, William Corrò, Roberta Paroletti, Maria Novella Della Martira, Teatro La Fenice (opera company), Alfonso Caiani, Manlio Benzi
This is a fine performance of a patchy work under conductor Manlio Benzi, with the outstanding soprano Francesca Dotto in the title role and resonant bass Simone Alberghini impressive as the... —
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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. Verdi: Falstaff
Nicola Alaimo (Falstaff), Simone Piazzola (Ford), Matthew Swensen (Fenton), Ailyn Pérez (Alice Ford), Francesca Boncompagni (Nannetta), Sara Mingardo (Mrs. Quickly), Caterina Piva (Meg Page), Christian Collia (Dr Cajus), Antonio Garés (Bardolfo), Gianluca Buratto (Pistola)
Orchestra E Coro...
This is a straightdown-the-line account of Falstaff from director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, where the interest resides in lively characterisation and attractive singing rather than conceptual bells... —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Accademia Bizantina, Charles Workman, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Delphine Galou, John Daszak, Francesco Milancese, Marina de Liso, Eleonara Bellocci, Pierre-Anoine Chaumien, Miriam Albano, Mark Milhofer, Ottavio Dantone
The stars of the show are Charles Workman as Ulysses and Arianna Vendittelli as the goddess Minerva. Workman has real stage presence and can colour his voice to convey bravura, tenderness, reflectiveness... —
