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Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
María José Siri (Adriana Lecouvreur), Ksenia Dudnikova (Princess de Bouillon), Martin Muehle (Maurizio), Paolo Antognetti (Abbe de Chazeuil), Alessandro Spina (Prince de Bouillon), Nicola Alaimo (Michonnet), Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Frederic Wake-Walker
Daniel Harding
The playing is admirably sensuous: Cilea knew his Wagner and Debussy, and Harding pointedly emphasises the debts, while also giving us plenty of Italianate passion and lyricism. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Puccini: Tosca
Malin Byström (Tosca), Joshua Guerrero (Cavaradossi), Gevorg Hakobyan (Scarpia), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Barrie Kosky, Lorenzo Viotti
Kosky and Viotto, closely allied in style, find fresh, sometimes truly shocking energy...this must be one of the bloodiest Toscas shown on stage, in a world where the characters’ Christian faith... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Casella: La donna serpente
Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) & Arturo Cirillo (stage director)
La donna serpente is a great and relatively unsophisticated joy to watch and to listen to, a kind of commedia dell’arte pop music in sound and vision…The production has been efficiently and... — More…
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Opera, November 2019, Disc of the Month
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Rossini: L'Equivoco Stravagante
Antonella Colaianni (Ernestino), Giulio Mastrototaro (Gamberotto), Emmanuel Franco (Burakicchio), Patrick Kabongo (Ermanno), Eleonora Bellocci (Rosalia), Sebastian Monti (Frontino), Gorecki Chamber Choir, Virtuosi Brunensis, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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A chronologically wide-ranging programme startis with Bizet-meets-Elgar in Marche caprice (composed in Paris in 1889) and finishes with the flourishes of the 1931 Fantastic Dance that Delius... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2004, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Chabrier: L'Etoile
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Lazuli), Christophe Mortagne (King Ouf), Hélène Guilmette (Princess Laoula), Jérôme Varnier (Siroco), Julie Boulianne (Aloès), François Piolino (Tapioca), Elliot Madore (Prince Hérisson de Porc-Epic)
Residentie Orkest The Hague, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Patrick Fournillier,...
The music is marvellous in its deft wit, lightness of touch and refined yet exquisite sensuality…d’Oustrac makes a terrific Lazuli, impulsive and witty, wonderfully seductive throughout the... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019, Vidéo
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Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge, Elegischer Gesang
Hanna-Leena Haapamäki, Jussi Myllys, Niklas Spångberg
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Leif Segerstam
Segerstam’s sure pacing ensures that this performance never flags, while ensuring room to breathe in poetic moments…Jussi Myllys is an admirably clear-voiced Jesus, and Hanna-Leena Haapämaki... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Engelbert Humperdinck: Königskinder
Olga Kulchynska, Doris Soffel, Daniel Behle (tenor), Josef Wagner, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Christof Loy, Marc Albrecht
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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