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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Opera
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
With Antonio Pappano in the pit, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros brought to their interpretations of the leading roles rapturous arcs of phrasing and refulgence of tone that we have not heard... — More…
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Verdi: Aida
Cheryl Studer (Aida), Dennis O’Neill (Radames), Luciana d’Intino (Amneris), Alexandru Agache (Amonasro), Robert Lloyd (Ramfis), Mark Beesley (King), Yvonne Barclay (High Priestess), John Marsden (Messager), Stage Director: Elijah Moshinsky
The Royal Opera Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal...
This DVD of a distinguished account of Verdi's grand opera from 1994 has a great deal to recommend it, yet in the end I'm not sure that it manages to avoid cliché of the sense that the work has... — More…
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFour-act version
Rolando Villazón (Don Carlo), Robert Lloyd (King Philip), Amanda Roocroft (Elisabeth), Violeta Urmana (Eboli), Dwayne Croft (Posa), Jaakko Ryhänen (Grand Inquisitor), Giorgio Giuseppini (Monk)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & De Nederlandse Opera Chorus, Riccardo Chailly, stage direction...
Decker's direction of the principals provides both intelligent insights into relationships along with many bêtises that surely go against the composer's intentions. …he certainly manages to... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2006, Recommended DVD
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Juha Uusitalo (Der Hollander), Robert Lloyd (Daland), Catherine Naglestad (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Marina Prudenskaja (Mary), Oliver Ringelhahn (Der Steuermann)
Chorus of The Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Harmut Haenchen (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)
Juha Uusitalo is a charismatic Dutchman vocally, if more demonic than romantic — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Ludovic Tézier (Il Conte di Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (La Contessa di Almaviva), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Karine Deshayes (Cherubino), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Robert Lloyd (Bartolo)
Paris Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Philippe Jordan
This Franco-Italian-Russian-Irish-English combo plays well together … this cast sings well too...Jordan's conducting sound large-scale and Romantic to our period ears...this new set plays as... — More…
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Gala Performances Box Set
Maria Deller-Takemura, Philip Mosley, Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Darcey Bussell, Zoltán Solymosi, Paata Burchuladze, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Leanne Benjamin, Tetsuya Kumakawa, Elizabeth McGorian, Adam Cooper, Iohna Loots, Viviana Durante, Bruce Sansom, Robert Lloyd, Dwayne Croft,...
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Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo
Luis Lima (Don Carlo), Ileana Cotrubas (Elisabetta), Robert Lloyd (Filippo II), Giorgio Zancanaro (Rodrigo), Bruna Baglioni (Eboli), Joseph Rouleau (Il Grande Inquisitore), Patricia Parker (Tebaldo), Matthew Best (Un Frate)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink
The pleasure is all in the visuals and the overall authentically Verdian mood they create...Haitink’s conducting is a slow-burn effort, convincing as the opera builds to its climax and matching... — More…
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Handel: Messiah
Sylvia McNair (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Michael Chance (countertenor), Jerry Hadley (tenor), Robert Lloyd (bass)
Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Cecilia Bartoli, David Kuebler, Gino Quilico, Carlos Feller, Robert Lloyd, Klaus Bruch, Paul Kappeler
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) & Choir of Cologne City Opera, Gabriele Ferro
The 22-year-old Cecilia Bartoli is vocally dazzling and subtle in inflection as a Rosina of considerable charm who nevertheless seems less enamoured of ‘Lindoro’ than of her own manipulative... — More…
