American Operas
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Special offer. Corigliano, J: The Ghosts of Versailles
RecommendedVictoria Livengood (Woman with Hat), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Louis XVI), Scott Scully (Marquis), Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), Patricia Racette (Marie Antoinette), Lucas Meachem (Figaro), Lucy Schaufer (Susanna), Joshua Guerrero (Count Almaviva), Guanqun Yu (Rosina), Renée Rapier (Cherubino),...
Christopher Maltman [is] solidly incisive as Beaumarchais, Robert Brubaker [is] vigorous as the villain Bégearss, and Broadway’s Patti LuPone [is] in for a colourful bit as the Turkish singer... —
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
RecommendedEdwards Parks (Steve Jobs), Garrett Sorenson (Steve Wozniak), Sasha Cooke (Laurene), Jessica E. Jones (Chrisann), Wei Wu (Kōbun Chino Otogawa); Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Michael Christie
Bates’s vocal writing can be taxing, though its challenges are all wonderfully met in the recording…Edward Parks gives a terrific central performance as Jobs, capturing both this charisma and... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Opera Recording
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Special offer. Getty: The Canterville Ghost
Alexandra Hutton (soprano), Jean Broekhuizen (mezzo-soprano), Denise Wernly (mezzo-soprano), Rachel Marie Hauge (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Oliver (tenor), Jonathan Michie (baritone), Anooshah Golesorkhi (baritone), Matthew Trevino (bass)
Oper Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester, Matthias Foremny
Getty's musical language is conservative but colourful, but his text-setting, with frequent large leaps across consonant intervals, tends to the monotonous...Matthias Foremny conducts the Leipzig... —
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Special offer. Higdon: Cold Mountain
Jay Hunter Morris (Teague), Robert Pomakov (Owens), Adrian Kramer (Owens’ Son), Nathan Gunn (W.P. Inman), Kevin Burdette (A Blind Man) & Isabel Leonard (Ada Monroe)
The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra & Members of The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
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Special offer. Heggie: It’s a Wonderful Life
William Burden (George), Andrea Carroll (Mary), Talise Trevigne (Clara), Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers
Heggie’s eclectic tonal music is light on lyrical flights and rhythmically overly rigid, but the accomplished orchestral writing satisfyingly conjures up appropriate moos of ardour and longing.... —
