Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 14th August 2024.
Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Europa Galante (early music ensemble)
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This is a full-length piece with substantial amounts of dialogue, largely couched in an attractive lighter vein that recalls the French opéra-comique tradition and may even be seen as prefiguring... — More…
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Opera, January 2022, Disc of the Month
2 CDs
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Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710 Rolando Villazón (Ercole), Patrizia Ciofi (Orizia), Diana Damrau (Martesia), Joyce DiDonato (Ippolita), Vivica Genaux (Antiope), Topi Lehtipuu (Telemone), Philippe Jaroussky (Alceste), Romina Basso (Teseo)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Réédition
2 CDs
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Verdi: Il Corsaro Matheus Pompeu (Corrado), Ilona Mataradze (Medora), Aleksey Bogdanov (Seid), Mateusz Stachura (Giovanni), Paweł Cichoński (Selimo/Eunuch/Slave)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Though he’s not particularly subtle, Matheus Pompeu brings a striking tenor, vivid colours and a sense of style to Corrado the corsair...The most impressive performance overall comes from Aleksey... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi Vivica Genaux (Romeo), Valentina Farcas (Giulietta), Davide Giusti (Tebaldo), Fabrizio Beggi (Lorenzo), Ugo Guagliardo (Capellio)
Belcanto Chorus & Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
[Biondi's] insistence on intimacy is underpinned by an alert period band - with fortepiano added to the ensemble - and smallish chorus. Instrumentally the reading constantly refreshes listening... — More…
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Handel: Imeneo Magnus Staveland (Imeneo), Ann Hallenberg (Tirinto), Monica Piccinini (Rosmene), Fabrizio Beggi (Argenio), Cristiana Arcari (Clomiri) & Fabio Biondi (violin & direction)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Biondi shapes a performance in which the depth of preparation results in music-making that sounds entirely spontaneous. There's a startling variety of articulation and colour from his tiny band,... — More…
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Cavalli: La Didone Claron McFadden (Didone), Magnus Staveland (Enea), Jordi Domènech (Iarba/Corebo), Manuela Custer (Cassandra/Guinone/Damigella), Marina De Liso (Ecuba/Mercurio/Ilioneo), Donatella Lombardi (Creusa/Anna/Damigella), Isabel Álvarez (Ascanio/Amore/Fortuna), Antonio Lozano (Anchises/Sicheo/Eolo), Gian...
Fabio Biondi's live recording of the 1650 Naples edition is an edge-of-your-seat affair, from the clattering concitato strings of the Trojan warriors to the imperial heft of Juno's sackbutts... — More…
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Cavalli: La virtù de’ strali d’Amore Giacinta Nicotra, Gemma Bertagnolli, Juan Sancho, Cristiana Arcari, Roberta Invernizzi, Marco Scavazza, Filippo Adami, Monica Piccinini, Filippo Morace, Roberto Abbondanza & Donatella Lombardi
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
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Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato Nicola Alaimo (Marcaniello), Elena Belfiore (Ascanio), Patrizia Biccirè (Nena), Jurgita Adamonyte (Nina), Barbara Di Castri (Luggrezia), David Alegret (Carlo), Laura Cherici (Vannella), Rosa Bove (Cardella), Filippo Morace (Don Pietro)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor) & Willy Landin...
The production...brilliantly updates the work to the 1950s. Its whole atmosphere is redolent of that great era in Italian cinema...The fast-paced comedy is perfectly placed - and ideally paced...Patrizia... — More…
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Donizetti: Anna Bolena Federico Benetti (Enrico VIII, Marta Torbidoni (Anna Bolena, his wife), Laura Polverelli (Giovanna Seymour), Dionisos Tsantinis (Lord Rochefort), Marín García (Percy), Martina Belli (Smeton)
Belcanto Chorus, Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi, Cesare Scarton
