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, Donizetti (composer)
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix Eglise Gutiérrez (Linda), Ludovic Tézier (Antonio), Stephen Costello (Carlo), Marianna Pizzolato (Pierotto), Alessandro Corbelli (Marchese de Boisfleury), Bálint Szabó, Elizabeth Sikora (Maddalena), Luciano Botelho (Intendant)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir...
[Elder] infuses the whole performance with conviction, right from the rather impressive overture...All the singers are up to their roles, and the playing of the orchestra is bold; even the most... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Opera, August 2011, Recording of the Month
3 CDs
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Donizetti: L'esule di Roma Nicola Alaimo (Murena), Albina Shagimuratova (Argelia), Sergey Romanovsky (Settimio), Lluís Calvet i Pey (Publio), André Henriques (Lucio/Flavio), Kezia Bienek (Leontina)
Britten Sinfonia, Carlo Rizzi
2 CDs
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Donizetti: Il Paria RecommendedAlbina Shagimuratova (Neala), René Barbera (Idamore), Misha Kiria (Zarete), Marko Mimica (Akebare), Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder
Barbera proves up to the task, effortlessly pinging out top C sharps with abandon. With his generous, pure tone, he is well matched as the love interest of Albina Shagimuratova (Neala), a soprano... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th January 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
2 CDs
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Donizetti: Anna Bolena Nicolai Ghiaurov (Enrico VIII), Elena Souliotis (Anna Bolena), Marilyn Horne (Giovanna Seymour), John Alexander (Lord Riccardo Percy), Janet Coster (Smeton), Stafford Dean (Rochefort), Piero de Palma (Harvey)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Opernorchester, Silvio Varviso
3 CDs
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Donizetti: The Three Queens Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Riccardo Frizza
She is at her best as Maria Stuarda with a fine version of Mary’s prayer soaring over the chorus. — More…
2 CDs
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Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite Annalisa Stroppa (Léonor de Guzman), Javier Camarena (Fernand), Florian Sempey (Alphonse XI), Evgeny Stavinsky (Balthazar), Edoardo Milletti (Don Gaspar)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Donizetti Opera and Coro dell’Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Valentina Carrasco, Riccardo Frizza
Javier Camarena is exemplary as Fernand, every inch the bel canto tenor in his celebrated final act aria ‘Ange si pur’. Florian Sempey’s Alphonse is a gravel-voiced villain.. Annalisa Stroppa’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Opera Choice
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Donizetti: Imelda de’ Lambertazzi Nicole Cabell (Imelda), James Westman (Bonifacio Geremei), Massimo Giordano (Lamberto), Frank Lopardo (Orlando Lambertazzi), Brindley Sherratt (Ubaldo)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mark Elder
Elder makes a persuasive case for Donizetti's early Romeo-and-Juliet-esque tale of warring families. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Opera Finalist
2 CDs
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Donizetti: The Elixir of Love RecommendedBarry Banks (Nemorino), Mary Plazas (Adina), Ashley Holland (Belcore), Andrew Shore (Dulcamara)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
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Building a Library, April 2002, English Language Version
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
2 CDs
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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