Naxos
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Puccini: La Bohème Olesya Golovneva (Mimi), Maria Fontosh (Musetta), Joachim Bäckstöm (Rodolfo), Miklós Sebestyén (Colline), Vladislav Sulimsky (Marcello), Daniel Hellström (Schaunard)
Malmö Children’s Chorus & Malmö Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Christian Badea (conductor) & Orpha Phelan (stage director)
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Puccini: La Bohème Olesya Golovneva, Maria Fontosh (sopranos), Joachim Bäckstöm (tenor), Miklós Sebestyén (bass), Vladislav Sulimsky, Daniel Hellström (baritones)
Malmö Children’s Chorus & Malmö Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Christian Badea (conductor) & Orpha Phelan (stage director)
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Verdi: Macbeth Giuseppe Altomare, Olha Zhuravel, Pavel Kudinov, Rubens Pelizzari & Marco Voleri
Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche & Coro Lirico Marchigiano ‘V. Bellini’, Daniele Callegari
A straightforward, vigorous account of one of Verdi's finest scores. Simply but effectively staged, it gets strong, unsubtle vocal and acting performances from a young cast. — More…
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Adamo, M: Little Women - An Opera in Two Acts Stephanie Novacek (Jo), Joyce DiDonato (Meg), Chad Shelton (Laurie), Stacey Tappan (Beth), Margaret Lloyd (Amy), Daniel Belcher (John Brooke), Chen-Ye Yuan (Friedrich Bhaer), Katherine Ciesinski (Cecilia March), James Maddalena (Gideon March), Gwendolyn Jones (Alma March) & Derrick Parker (Mr...
It's expertly staged and acted, and interesting to see the young Joyce DiDonato in repertoire far removed from her familiar one. — More…
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Bizet: Carmen Solange Michel, Raoul Jobin, Martha Angelici, Michel Dens
Chorus & Orchestra of the Opéra-Comique Paris, André Cluytens
2 CDs
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Bellini: I Puritani Ana Durlovski (Elvira), René Barbera (Lord Arturo Talbo), Roland Bracht (Lord Gualtiero Valton), Diana Haller (Enrichetta di Francia), Adam Palka (Sir Giorgio Valton), Gezim Myshketa (Sir Riccardo Forth), Heinz Göhrig (Sir Bruno Robertson)
Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Staatsopernchor Stuttgart,...
The flight into a historical fantasy is a decent idea but there is too much gestural theatre here… It clearly made an impact on stage. Perhaps this was because the voices are very strong, and... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte Valentina Naforniţa, Thomas Hampson, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Benedetta Torre, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Matthew Swensen, Mattia Olivieri, Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta
While Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s production plays modish games with meta-theatricality, it is anchored in the 18th century…Valentina Nafornita and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya are a well-matched pair of... — More…
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Mozart: La finta Giardiniera Krešimir Špicer (Don Anchise), Julie Martin du Theil (La Marchesa Violante), Bernard Richter (Il Contino Belfiore), Anett Fritsch (Arminda), Lucia Cirillo (Ramiro), Giulia Semenzato (Serpetta), Mattia Olivieri (Nardo)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (on period instruments), Diego Fasolis, Frederic...
this is an interesting and hugely enjoyable performance of a production that certainly has its flaws and errors, but also the merit of original thought that fundamentally respects the intentions... — More…
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini John Osborn (Benvenuto Cellini), Mariangela Sicilia (Teresa), Maurizio Muraro (Balducci), Michèle Losier (Ascanio), Laurent Naouri (Fieramosca), Orlin Anastassov (Le Pape Clément VII)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder, Terry Gilliam
Elder conducts a thrillingly vibrant and entirely idiomatic account…Gilliam’s extraordinary eye for visual fantasy, cartoonish comedy and endless japes, meanwhile, matches the music surprisingly... — More…
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice 1859 version by Hector Berlioz
Marianne Crebassa (Orphée), Hélène Guilmette (Eurydice), Lea Desandre (Amour)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon. Aurélien Bory (director)
Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is a magnificent Orphée. Her bright, lyric mezzo is a bit more authoritative in the middle to upper registers than the lower one. But she sings with admirable... — More…
