Enkelejda Shkosa
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Butterfly), Jonas Kaufmann (Pinkerton), Enkelejda Shkosa (Suzuki), Fabio Capitanucci (Sharpless), Gregory Bonfatti (Goro) & Raymond Aceto (Bonzo)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
In many respects Gheorghiu's singing reminds me of Callas's: in Act I they both adopt a 'little girl' voice, and in Act II they both sound more mature… so that by the tragic climax they present... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd March 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Opera
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Opera, April 2009, Recording of the Month
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Building A Library, March 2024, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedAsmik Grigorian (Lauretta/Giorgetta/Suor Angelica), Misha Kiria (Schicchi), Karita Mattila (La Zia Principessa), Roman Burdenko (Michele), Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Alexey Neklyudov (Rinuccio)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst, Christof Loy
[in Suor Angelica] Grigorian holds the stage almost throughout; a performance of heartrending vocal beauty and equally potent vocal characterisation...You might feel Loy pushes it too far but... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th July 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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Special offer. Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedAsmik Grigorian (Lauretta/Giorgetta/Suor Angelica), Misha Kiria (Schicchi), Karita Mattila (La Zia Principessa), Roman Burdenko (Michele), Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Alexey Neklyudov (Rinuccio)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst, Christof Loy
[in Suor Angelica] Grigorian holds the stage almost throughout; a performance of heartrending vocal beauty and equally potent vocal characterisation...You might feel Loy pushes it too far but... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th July 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — More…Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Giuseppe Sabbatini (Faust), Enkelejda Shkosa (Marguerite), Michele Pertusi (Méphistophélès), David Wilson-Johnson (Brander)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
The greatest Berlioz conductor of his generation in a triumphant benchmark live recording … outshines previous sets at whatever price — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Editor's Choice
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Anna Pirozzi (Leonora), Enkelejda Shkosa (Azucena), Piero Pretti, Marco Caria (Il Conte di Luna), Alessandro Spina (Ferrando)
Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche, Coro Lirico Marchigiano Vincenzo Bellini, Daniel Oren
The direction of the singers is pretty rudimentary but Anna Pirozzi gives us a grandly sung Leonore…which is matched by Piero Pretti’s robust Manrico… Enkelejda Shkosa brings plenty of voice... — More…
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Massenet: Thaïs
Renée Fleming (Thaïs), Thomas Hampson (Athanael), Giuseppe Sabbatini (Nicias), Estefano Palatchi (Palemon)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Yves Abel
At last – a modern recording of Thaïs with a soprano who can sing the title-role. All we need is a soprano with a fabulously beautiful voice, idiomatic French, a sensuous legato, pure high notes... — More…
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Special offer. Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà
Svetlana Aksenova (Zazà), Enkelejda Shkosa (Aniade), Dorothea Herbert (Floriana/Madame Dufresne), Juliette Mars (Natalia), Nikolai Schukoff (Milio Dufresne), Vittoria Antonuzzo (Toto Dufresne), Christopher Maltman (Cascart), Tobias Greenhalgh (Bussy), Paul Schweinester (Courtois), Johannes Bamberger...
Loy manages to focus in his surgical, sparing way on the essentials...I just wish Leoncavallo’s 1900 opera was deserving of such a polished staging, as well as the diligent conducting by Stefan... — More…
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Special offer. Bellini: La straniera
Sandra Browne (mezzo-soprano), Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Nicole Tibbels (soprano), Enkelejda Shkosa (mezzo-soprano), Aled Hall (tenor), Darío Schmunck (tenor), Alexander Oliver (tenor), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
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Special offer. Rossini: Otello
Bruce Ford (Otello), Elizabeth Futral (Desdemona), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Elmiro), William Matteuzzi (Rodrigo), Juan Jose Lopera (Iago), Enkelejda Shkosa (Emilia), Ryland Davies (Doge), Dominic Natoli (Lucio), Barry Banks (Gondoliero)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David...
Bruce Ford reveals himself as a Rossinian without equal today — More…
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