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Special offer. Giovanni Battista Riccio, Vocem iucunditatis
Sacred and Instrumental Music
Estrovagante Ensemble, Riccardo Doni
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Special offer. Hummel - Selected Masterpieces
Recorded at Dynamic, Genova, Italy – 1994-2000
Giuliana Corni, Luigi Alberto Bianchi, Aldo Orvieto, Arturo Bonucci, Marta Mazzini, Jodi Levitz, Dorina Frati, Stefano Fiuzzi, I Solisti di Fiesole, Nicola Paszkowski
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Special offer. Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Roberto de Candia (Don Pasquale), Giulia Mazzola (Norina), Javier Camarena (Ernesto), Dario Sogos (Malatesta)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Iván López-Reynoso, Amélie Niermeyer
the revelation is Giulia Mazzola, a member (like Sogos) of the festival's young artist scheme, a sparky actress who convinces as a workingclass confidence trickster but sings with the most tender,... —
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Special offer. Alfonso Rendano: Piano Concerto
Daniela Roma (piano), Vito Cristofaro, Oldenburg State Orchestra
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Special offer. Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Roberto de Candia (Don Pasquale), Giulia Mazzola (Norina), Javier Camarena (Ernesto), Dario Sogos (Malatesta)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Iván López-Reynoso, Amélie Niermeyer
the revelation is Giulia Mazzola, a member (like Sogos) of the festival's young artist scheme, a sparky actress who convinces as a workingclass confidence trickster but sings with the most tender,... —
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Special offer. Nicola Vaccaj: Giulietta e Romeo
Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor), Vasa Stajkic (bass), Paoletta Marrocu (soprano), Christian Senn (bass), Raffaella Lupinacci (mezzo-soprano), Leonor Bonilla (soprano)
Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Sesto Quatrini (conductor), Cecilia Ligorio (director)
Vaccaj reveals himself as more than a journeyman composer. Even if the score suggests Rossini…Vaccaj’s version of the story does hold your attention…The cast is serviceable…However it’s Raffaella... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Francesco Cilea: Gloria
Ramaz Chikviladze, Anastasia Bartoli, Franco Vassallo, Carlo Ventre, Alessandro Abis, Elena Schirru, Alessandro Frabotta, Giovanni Andreoli, Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Lirico Di Cagliari, Antonio Albanese, Francesco Cilluffo
The score glows with colour and atmosphere – Puccini is the obvious comparison, though some of the orchestral writing is reminiscent of the young Korngold. In any case, Cilluffo is an expert... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Mascagni: L’amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite
Annalisa Stroppa (Léonor de Guzman), Javier Camarena (Fernand), Florian Sempey (Alphonse XI), Evgeny Stavinsky (Balthazar), Edoardo Milletti (Don Gaspar)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Donizetti Opera and Coro dell’Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Valentina Carrasco, Riccardo Frizza
Javier Camarena is exemplary as Fernand, every inch the bel canto tenor in his celebrated final act aria ‘Ange si pur’. Florian Sempey’s Alphonse is a gravel-voiced villain.. Annalisa Stroppa’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Handel/Leo: Rinaldo
Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Loriana Castellano (Almirena), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo), Francesca Ascioti (Argante), Ana Victória Pitts (A Christian Magician), Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Giorgio Sangati (director)
Sangati’s staging, mixing (vaguely) 18th-century costumes, Venice carnival masks and modernist camp, is unpretentious and uncluttered. The substitute arias, often short-breathed, cannot rival... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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