DVD Video, Teatro La Fenice (opera company)
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Britten: Death in Venice
Marlin Miller (Gustav von Aschenbach), Razek François Bitar (Voice of Apollo), Scott Hendricks (Traveller and other roles), Alessandro Riga (Tadzio), Danilo Palmieri (Jaschiu)
Teatro La Fenice, Bruno Bartoletti
No other production of this opera has so successfully transported the audience through a series of fully conceived sets...Marlin Miller sings with a refined lyrical sensibility...the beauty... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Fiorenza Cedolins (Maria Stuarda), Jose Bros (Leicester), Mirco Palazzi (Talbot), Pervin Chakar (Anna), Marco Caria (Cecil)
Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, Fabrizo Maria Carminati
Maestro Carminati looks an amiable, gentle soul as he enters the pit but he unleashes a firestorm of tension and passion in the big duets and his judicious tempi bind Donizetti's not-so-easy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, DVD of the Month
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Bellini: La Sonnambula
Giovanni Battista Parodi (Rodolfo), Julie Mellor (Teresa), Jessica Pratt (Amina), Shalva Mukeria (Elvino)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Gabriele Ferro
Bepi Morassi's production...takes the piece with a pinch of irony, but arguably no more than intended by its creators...Pratt's blonde bombshell of an Amina shows good range of technical skills... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, DVD of the Month
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Jessica Pratt (Giulietta), Sonia Ganassi (Romeo), Shalva Mukeria (Tebaldo), Rubén Amoretti (Capellio), Luca Dall'Amico (Lorenzo)
Teatro La Fenice, Omer Meir Wellber, Arnaud Bernard
Omer Meir Wellber conducts a sympathetic account of the score, well played by La Fenice’s orchestra. If you’re looking for a safe, traditional Capuleti, this could very well fit the bill. — More…
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Verdi: Luisa Miller
Darina Takova (soprano), Giuseppe Sabbatini (tenor), Alexander Vinogradov (bass), Damiano Salerno (baritone), Ursula Ferri (contralto), Arutjun Kotchinian (bass), Luca Favaron (tenor) & Elisabetta Martorana (soprano), Director: Arnaud Bernard / Sets: Alessandro Camera and Video director: Tiziano...
This mediocre opera needs stronger atmosphere than it gets in this strangely monumental staging for a domestic drama. The singing and conducting is strong, but it is more convincing to just... — More…
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Strauss, R: Daphne
June Anderson (soprano), Roberto Saccà (tenor), Scott Mac Allister (tenor) & Daniel Lewis Williams (bass0
rchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Stefan Anton Reck (conductor) & Paul Curran (director)
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Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto
Michael Maniaci (Armando d'Orville), Patrizia Ciofi (Palmide), Marco Vinco (Aladino), Laura Polverelli (Felicia), Fernando Portari (Adriano di Monfort), Iorio Zennaro (Osmino), Silvia Pasini (Alma)
Teatro La Fenice, Emmanuel Villaume
The great performances come from Patrizia Ciofi, exquisite as the put-upon Palmide, and Marco Vinco, marvellously authoritative as Aladino. — More…
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Verdi: Otello
Gregory Kunde (Otello), Carmela Remigio (Desdemona), Lucio Gallo (Iago), Elisabetta Martorana (Emilia)
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Myung-whun Chung
The main strength of the performance is the taut conducting of Myung-Whun Chung, who barely lets the tensions drop for a second...Kunde, a genuine tenor rather than baritonal Otello, is strong... — More…
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New Year’s Concert
Live recording from the Teatro La Fenice, 1 January 2013
Desirée Rancatore (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice & Members of the Ballet of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Schoenberg: Von Heute Auf Morgen
Georg Nigl (Mann), Brigitte Geller (Frau), Sonia Visentin (Freundin), Mathias Schulz (Sänger) & Michelangelo D’Adamo (Kind)
Orchestra & Chorus Teatro La Fenice Venezia, Eliahu Inbal (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (director)