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Mayr: Che originali! & Donizetti: Pigmalione Bruno de Simone (Don Febeo), Chiara Amarù (Donna Aristea), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Don Carolino), Angela Nisi (Donna Rosina), , Antonino Siragusa (Pigmalione) & Aya Wakizono (Galatea); Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Gianluca Capuano, Roberto Catalano
Donizetti was just 19 when he composed Pigmalione and it was only premiered in 1960. Frankly the pupil out-masters his teacher…Siragusa is magnificent as Pygmalion, begging the gods to bring... — More…
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Donizetti: La Favorite Veronica Simeoni (Leonor), Celso Albelo (Fernand) & Mattia Olivieri (Alphonse)
Valdes’s direction is pretty static, betraying a lack of experience staging opera, but there are some reliable vocal performances to enjoy. Mezzo Veronica Simeoni copes well with her key aria... — More…
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Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana Alexia Voulgaridou (Santuzza), Marina Ogii (Lola), Angelo Villari (Turiddu), Devid Cecconi (Compar Alfio), Elena Zilio (Mamma Lucia) & Cristina Pagliai (Una donna)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli (conductor) & Luigi Di Gangi & Ugo Giacomazzi (directors)
This is a traditional show, with traditional central performances to match. Angelo Villari is an effective, powerful Turiddu, his voice steady and impressive if not especially memorable…This... — More…
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Melani: L'Empio Punito Alessandro Ravasio, Michela Guarrera, Carlotta Colombo, Sabrina Cortese, Mauro Borgioni, Giacomo Nanni, Alessio Tosi, Riccardo Pisani, Luca Cervoni, Maria Elena Pepi, Guglielmo Buonsanti, Reale Festival Baroque Ensemble
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Wagner: Die Walküre Martin Iliev (Siegmund), Tsvetana Bandalovska (Sieglinde), Nikolay Petrov (Wotan), Bayasgalan Dashnyam (Brünnhilde), Angel Hristov (Hunding), Rumyana Petrova (Fricka), Sofia Opera and Ballet
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Wagner: Siegfried Martin Illiev (Siegfried), Krasimir Dinev (Mime), Biser Georgiev (Alberich), Martin Tsonev (Wanderer), Petar Buchkov (Fafner), Rumyana Petrova (Erda), Bayasgalan Dashnyam (Brunnhilde), Lyubov Metodieva (Woodbird), Sofia Opera and Ballet, Pavel Baleff
there is some very fine singing here. Martin Iliev is a magnificent Siegfried with a properly heroic tone and enviable stamina. More than that, we watch him grow psychologically through three... — More…
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Ricci, Federico: Crispino e la Comare Domenico Colaianni (Crispino), Stefania Bonfadelli (Annetta), Romina Boscolo (La Comare), Fabrizio Paesano (Contino del Fiore), Mattia Olivieri (Fabrizio), Alessandro Spina (Mirabolano), Carmine Monaco (Asdrubale), Lucia Conte (Lisetta) & Francesco Castoro (Bortolo)
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Accademia Bizantina, Charles Workman, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Delphine Galou, John Daszak, Francesco Milancese, Marina de Liso, Eleonara Bellocci, Pierre-Anoine Chaumien, Miriam Albano, Mark Milhofer, Ottavio Dantone
The stars of the show are Charles Workman as Ulysses and Arianna Vendittelli as the goddess Minerva. Workman has real stage presence and can colour his voice to convey bravura, tenderness, reflectiveness... — More…
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Verdi: Nabucco Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Nabucco), Anna Pirozzi (Abigaille), Riccardo Zanellato (Zaccaria), Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Ismaele), Alisa Kolosova (Fenena), Dongho Kim (Priest), Sofía Esparza (Anna), Mark Serdiuk (Abdallo)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Jordi Bernàcer
Enkhabat’s striking presence and strong, disciplined singing mark Nabucco out as a standard military dictator. Though not always in perfect vocal control, Saioa Hernández is an energetic, grand-scale... — More…
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Offenbach: Un mari à la porte Patrizio La Placa (Henri Martel), Francesca Benitez (Rosita), Matteo Mezzaro (Florestan Ducroquet) & Marina Ogii (Suzanne)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Valerio Galli
it’s fun and given a suitably zingy production … best of all is Francesca Benitez … she has the big hit number, a Valse Tyrolienne, one of Offenbach’s frothiest coloratura showpieces, and she... — More…
