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Special offer. Gaetano Donizetti: Alfredo Il Grande
Antonino Siragusa (Alfredo), Gilda Fiume (Amalia), Lodovico Filippo Ravizza (Eduardo), Adolfo Corrado (Atkins); Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Corrado Rovaris, Stefano Simone Pintor
Donizetti’s score is a fully worked-through composition, painted in military colours, swift-moving where necessary...Rovaris directs it with point and precision. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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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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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam
Giorgio Caoduro (Tsar), Juan Francisco Gatell (Pietro Flimann), Andrea Concetti (Wambett), Irina Dubrovskaya (Marietta), Aya Wakizono (Carlotta), Pietro Di Bianco (Leforte), Pasquale Scircoli (Alì Mahmed), Alessandro Ravasio (An Officer)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera,...
This production doesn’t feature any stars, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-acted romp. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande
Roberto De Candia (Pietro Il Grande), Loriana Castellano (Caterina), Paola Gradina (Madama Fritz), Nina Solodovnikova (Annetta Mazepa), Francisco Brito (Carlo Scavronski), Marco Filippo Romano (Ser Cuccupis), Tommaso Barea (Firman-Trombest), Marcello Nardis (Hondedisky), Stefano Gentili (Notaio),...
The comedy roles shine brightest here. Marco Filippo Romano stands out with his characterful interpretation of the patter role, the pompous Magistrate Ser Cuccupis...The central lovers are less... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Donizetti: L'Ange de Nisida
Florian Sempey (Don Fernand d'Aragon), Roberto Lorenzi (Don Gaspar), Konu Kim (Leone de Casaldi), Lidia Fridman (La comtesse Sylvia de Linares), Federico Benetti (Le Moine), Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Jean-Luc Tingaud, Francesco Micheli
Though the orchestral pacing here is slow at times, the three principals perform with vocal and dramatic commitment. Konu Kim has a light, pure tenor voice expressive of great anguish; baritone... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Donizetti: L'Ange de Nisida
Florian Sempey (Don Fernand d'Aragon), Roberto Lorenzi (Don Gaspar), Konu Kim (Leone de Casaldi), Lidia Fridman (La comtesse Sylvia de Linares), Federico Benetti (Le Moine), Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Jean-Luc Tingaud, Francesco Micheli
Though the orchestral pacing here is slow at times, the three principals perform with vocal and dramatic commitment. Konu Kim has a light, pure tenor voice expressive of great anguish; baritone... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Britten: Death in Venice
Marlin Miller (Gustav von Aschenbach), Razek François Bitar (Voice of Apollo), Scott Hendricks (Traveller and other roles), Alessandro Riga (Tadzio), Danilo Palmieri (Jaschiu)
Teatro La Fenice, Bruno Bartoletti
No other production of this opera has so successfully transported the audience through a series of fully conceived sets...Marlin Miller sings with a refined lyrical sensibility...the beauty... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Special offer. Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam
Giorgio Caoduro (Tsar), Juan Francisco Gatell (Pietro Flimann), Andrea Concetti (Wambett), Irina Dubrovskaya (Marietta), Aya Wakizono (Carlotta), Pietro Di Bianco (Leforte), Pasquale Scircoli (Alì Mahmed), Alessandro Ravasio (An Officer)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Coro Donizetti Opera,...
This production doesn’t feature any stars, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-acted romp. **** —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Antônio Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo
Svetla Vassileva (Llàra), Massimiliano Pisapia (Americo), Andrea Borghini (Iberè), Elisa Balbo (La contessa di Boissy), Daniele Terenzi (Gianfèra), Dongho Kim (Il conte Rodrigo/Goitacà)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, John Neschling
Gomes provides plenty of lyrical material for his singers. One can certainly detect the influence of Verdi...Andrea Borghini is the standout in a mixed cast. His sturdy baritone has a clean... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Nicola Vaccaj: Giulietta e Romeo
Leonor Bonilla (Giulietta), Raffaella Lupinacci (Romeo), Vasa Stajkic (Tebaldo), Christian Senn (Lorenzo), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Capellio), Paoletta Marrocu (Adelia)
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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