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, Kristina Hammarström (mezzo-soprano)
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Mozart: Lucio Silla, K135 Henriette Bonde-Hansen (soprano), Susanne Elmark (soprano), Kristina Hammarström (mezzo soprano), Jakob Næslund Madsen (tenor), Simone Nold (soprano), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Richard Lewis (harpsichord)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta & Ars Nova Copenhagen, Adam Fischer
The Milan premiere of Lucio Silla, on Boxing Day 1772, was a near-fiasco: ham acting from the last-minute tenor and the prima donna in a sulk. But from the second performance Mozart's second... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008, Editor's Choice
3 CDs
Original price ($33.75) Reduced price $27.00Downloads
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Francesco Cavalli: Il Giasone Valer Sabadus (Giasone), Kristina Hammarström (Medea), Kristina Mkhitaryan (Isifile), Raúl Giménez (Egeo), Willard White (Oreste & Giove), Dominique Visse (Delfa & Eolo), Mariana Flores (Alinda), Mary Feminear (Amore)
Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón (conductor)
The effect is boisterous, exuberant and just a little too much…A top-notch cast really savour the score’s lyricism, balancing all the cross-dressing camp with something disarmingly heartfelt.... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366 Christian Elsner (Idomeneo), Kristina Hammarström (Idamante), Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Ilia), Raffaella Milanesi (Elettra), Christoph Strehl (Arbace), Göran Eliasson (Nettuno) & Stephen Milling (La Voce)
Danish National Choir & The Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Adam Fischer
Fischer's vision of the opera is lean and muscular, with fleet-footed orchestral playing and strong, characterful soloists...Elsner captures the conflict raging within the Lear-like Idomeneo... — More…
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George Petrou conducts Handel & Manzaro Mary-Ellen Nesi (Alessandro), Marita Solberg (Salustia), Kristina Hammarström (Giulia), Irini Karaianni (Albina), Gemma Bertagnolli (Claudio), Petros Magoulas (Marziano), Christophoros Stamboglis (Don Crespuscolo)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
Petrou gives us more vigorous Handel, played by his Greek colleagues in the period-instrument Armonia Atenea with red-blooded energy and pounding rhythms...Solberg sings with disarming beauty... — More…
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Handel: Alcina Anja Harteros (Alcina), Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero), Kristina Hammarström (Bradamante), Veronica Cangemi (Morgana), Benjamin Bruns (Oronte), Adam Plachetka (Melisso), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto)
Les Musiciens du Louvre – Grenoble & Wiener Staatsballett, Marc Minkowski (conductor) &...
Adrian Noble's 2010 Vienna staging, to handsome designs by Anthony Ward, partially retains the magical ambience but as a setting within a setting...Noble extracts decent dramatic performances... — More…
