Naxos
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Ewa Marczyk (violin solo), Markek Marczyk (viola solo)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
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Special offer. Britten: Death in Venice
John Daszak (Aschenbach), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Apollo), Leigh Melrose (Traveller), Duncan Rock (English Clerk/Guide), Tomasz Borczyk (Tadzio)
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra, Alejo Pérez, Willy Decker
After so many disappointing productions, it’s exciting to watch one which casts a lurid new light on this disturbing opera and, more importantly, gives scope for two very fine singing actors…Daszak,... —
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Special offer. Handel: Agrippina
Patricia Bardon (Agrippina), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Danielle de Niese (Poppea), Filippo Mineccia (Ottone), Mika Kares (Claudio), Damien Pass (Pallante), Tom Verney (Narciso), Christoph Siedl (Lesbo)
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock, Robert Carsen
Carsen’s production…is a paradox that is simultaneously sophisticated and clumsy…On the other hand, [he] presents characters, their interactions and motivations with cleverness, wit and flawless... —
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Special offer. Hahn: Ciboulette - Operetta in three acts and four tableaux
Julie Fuchs (Ciboulette), Jean-Francois Lapointe (Duparquet), Julien Behr (Antonin), Eva Ganizate (Zenobie), Ronan Debois (Roger), Cecile Achille (Francoise), Jean-Claude Sarragosse (Monsieur Grenu), Guillemette Laurens (Madame Grenu), Patrick Kabongo Mubenga (Auguste/Victor), Francois Rougier (Le...
It is strongly cast. Julie Fuchs’s gawky market-gardening heroine presents the full range of Ciboulette’s self-commending charm...Given Laurence Equilbey’s attentive conducting, and uniformly... —
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Cesti: La Dori
Francesca Ascioti (Dori), Rupert Enticknap (Oronte), Federico Sacchi (Artaserse), Francesca Lombardi Mazzuli (Arsinoe), Emoke Barath (Tolomeo), Bradley Smith (Arsete), Pietro Di Bianco (Erasto), Alberto Allegrezza (Dirce), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
The exhilarating Innsbruck production made few concessions to historical staging, but worked brilliantly...The Innsbruck Festival assembled a strong cast to bring the opera home, all of whom... —
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Cesti: La Dori
Francesca Ascioti (Dori), Rupert Enticknap (Oronte), Federico Sacchi (Artaserse), Francesca Lombardi Mazzuli (Arsinoe), Emoke Barath (Tolomeo), Bradley Smith (Arsete), Pietro Di Bianco (Erasto), Alberto Allegrezza (Dirce), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
The exhilarating Innsbruck production made few concessions to historical staging, but worked brilliantly…The Innsbruck Festival assembled a strong cast to bring the opera home, all of whom sing... —
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Purcell: King Arthur
sung in English with German dialogue
Anett Fritsch (soprano), Robin Johannsen (soprano), Benno Schachtner (counter-tenor), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Stephan Rügamer (tenor), Arttu Kataja (baritone), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Michael Rotschopf (Arthur), Meike Droste (Emmeline/Mother), Hans-Michael Rehberg (Merlin/ Grandfather), Akademie...
There are effective moments in addition to those predictably generated by Purcell’s irresistible sequences. But the spectacle has an ad hoc, overstuffed quality...Under Jacobs’s direction, Purcell’s... —
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Bachler is informative and proud of the institution he has run since 2008. Jonas, filmed 11 years after he left, clearly remained deeply engaged with the company’s work; he is enthusiastically... —
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