DVD Video, Dynamic (label)
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Offer,
Lully: Acis et Galatée Jean-Francois Lombard (Acis), Elena Harsanyi (Galatee), Valeria La Grotta (Diane), Luigi de Donato (Polipheme), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (L'Abondance), Markus van Arsdale (Comus/Tircis), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Benjamin Lazar
Sardelli (wielding an authentically Lullian staff for certain movements) propels a crisp account – the festival orchestra’s first with period instruments. The many dances show off a wonderful... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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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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Bellini: Bianca e Fernando
Salome Jicia (Bianca), Giorgio Misseri (Fernando), Nicola Ulivieri (Filippo), Orchestra e Coro dell'opera Carlo Felice Genova, Donato Renzetti, Hugo de Ana
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Verdi: Falstaff
Ruggero Raimondi (Falstaff), Luca Salsi (Ford), Virginia Tola (Mrs. Alice Ford), Sabina Puértolas (Nannetta), Tiberio Simu (Fenton), Cinzia De Mola (Mistress Quickly), Liliana Mattei (Meg Page)
L’Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Paolo Arrivabeni, Stefano Poda
this is one of the musically enchanting Falstaffs I've ever encountered. Conductor Paolo Arrivabeni leads a mellow performance...Ensemble is precise and inner voices always clear: he leads it... — More…
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Valeria Sepe (Nedda), Angelo Villari (Canio), Davide Cecconi (Tonio), Matteo Mezzaro (Beppe), Leon Kim (Silvio); Orchestra a Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Valerio Galli
This is an enjoyable, effective performance of Leoncavallo’s work. Angelo Villari is a powerful singer, with impressive ringing tone, even if he doesn’t quite command the feral strength one... — More…
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Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Bruno de Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Francesca Longari (Lauretta), Anna Maria Chiuri (Zita), Dave Monaco (Rinuccio), Costanza Fontana (Nella), Antonio Garés (Gherardo), Giada Frasconi (La Ciesca), Francesco Venuti (Betto di Signa), Eugenio Di Lieto (Simone)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,...
Bruno de Simone is an amiable, bespectacled Schicchi who could win anyone around with his mellow voice and floral shirt. He sparks off nicely against Anna Maria Chiuri, an unusually young ‘vecchia’... — More…
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Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Krassimira Stoyanova (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jessica Pratt (Zerbinetta), AJ Glueckert (Bacchus), Markus Werba (Ein Musiklehrer), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti, Matthias Hartmann
Gatti conducts the score with evident affection, his account unrushed and expansive, moving in the Opera’s overture and achieving a noble sense of grandeur in the final minutes. — More…
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Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili
Eleonora Bellocci (Bellina), Martina Licari (Ersilia), Rocco Cavalluzzi (Don Giampaolo Lasagna), Matteo Loi (Don Romualdo), Valentino Buzza (Filandro), Angela Schisano (Leonora), Diego Procoli, Theresia Orchestra, Cesare Scarton, Alessandro de Marchi
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New,
Francesco Cilea: Gloria Ramaz Chikviladze, Anastasia Bartoli, Franco Vassallo, Carlo Ventre, Alessandro Abis, Elena Schirru, Alessandro Frabotta, Giovanni Andreoli, Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Lirico Di Cagliari, Antonio Albanese, Francesco Cilluffo
