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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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Special offer. Korngold: Violanta
Annemarie Kremer (Violanta), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Simone Trovai), Norman Reinhardt (Alfonso), Peter Sonn (Giovanni Bracca), Soula Parassidis (Bice), Anna Maria Chiuri (Barbara); Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio Torino, Pinchas Steinberg, Pier Luigi Pizzi
Pizzi’s staging aims for high drama but unfortunately registers as high camp….Some of the principal performances nevertheless strike home, especially Annemarie Kremer’s dignified, impassioned... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Special offer. Puccini: Suor Angelica
María José Siri (Suor Angelica), Anna Maria Chiuri (La zia Principessa), Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli, Denis Krief
Krief’s austere, angular, copper-coloured set with barred windows provides an appropriately oppressive ambience. The lack of visual distraction ensures our attention is firmly focused where... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Opera Choice
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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. 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. Francesco Cavalli: Il Xerse
Carlo Vistoli (Xerse), Ekaterina Protsenki (Amastre), Gaia Petrone (Arsamene), Carolina Lippo (Romilda), Dioklea Hoxha (Adelanta), Carlo Allemano (Ariodate), Nicolo Donini (Aristone), Nicolo Balducci (Periarco), Aco Biscevix (Elviro), Mario Fumarola (Cupido), Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo, Ferderico...
this enterprising recording can be recommended to lovers of Baroque opera. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Franck, C: Stradella
RecommendedIsabelle Kabatu (Leonor), Marc Laho (Stradella), Werner Van Mechelen (Spadoni), Philippe Rouillon (Le Duc), Xavier Rouillon (Pietro), Giovanni Iovino (Michael), Patrick Mignon (Beppo), Roger Joakim (Un Officier)
Orchester & Chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Paolo Arrivabeni
Jaco Van Dormael's watery staging (with the same forces as the CD recording) plays on the Venetian setting of the drama. In a bold step, he also alters the plot substantially (from a happy to... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Korngold: Violanta
Annemarie Kremer (Violanta), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Simone Trovai), Norman Reinhardt (Alfonso), Peter Sonn (Giovanni Bracca), Soula Parassidis (Bice), Anna Maria Chiuri (Barbara); Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio Torino, Pinchas Steinberg, Pier Luigi Pizzi
Pizzi’s staging aims for high drama but unfortunately registers as high camp….Some of the principal performances nevertheless strike home, especially Annemarie Kremer’s dignified, impassioned... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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