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Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Giorgio Zancanaro (Guido di Monforte), Enzo Capuano (Il sire di Bethune), Chris Merritt (Arrigo), Cheryl Studer (Elena)
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
it is Muti who, conducting tautly, ensures that this live performance carries high drama, with the orchestra too playing splendidly...the production is straightforward, with no crazy impositions... — More…
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedAleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Àlvarez (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Antonello Ceron (Roderigo), Mikhail Petrenko (Lodovico)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
Otello is played by Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is tremendous in all respects. His Desdemona is the lovely Marina Poplovskaya...an expert in suffering. Carlos Àlvarez's Iago and Stephen Costello's... — More…
Awards:
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Building a Library, February 2012, First Choice (DVD & Blu-ray)
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Rosa Feola (soprano), Alisa Kolosova (contralto), Dmitry Korchak (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass-baritone), Wiener Staatsoper (opera company)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Rossini: Guglielmo Tell
Giorgio Zancanaro (Guglielmo Tell), Cheryl Studer (Matilde), Chris Merritt (Arnoldo), Giorgio Surjan (Gualtiero Farst), Franco de Grandis (Melchthal), Vittorio Terranova (Ruodi), Alberto Noli (Leutoldo), Luigi Roni (Gessler), Ernesto Gavazzi (Rodolfo), Amelia Felle (Jemmy), Ludicana d'Intino (Edwige)
Orchestra,...
Muti conducts with real assurance. Pacing the drama magnificently, it is on performances like these that the controversial Maestro has made his well-deserved musical reputation. Tell emerges... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Edita Gruberova (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Francisco Araiza (Don Ottavio), Claudio Desderi (Leporello), Susanne Mentzer (Zerlina), Natale de Carolis (Masetto), Sergej Koptchak (Il Commendatore)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Riccardo Muti
A rare operatic detour on the part of a great theatre director, Giorgio Strehler, it does bear a distinctive theatrical stamp… Thomas Allen's Giovanni (in splendidly aristocratic form) and Claudio... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Margaret Marshall (Fiordiligi), Ann Murray (Dorabella), Francisco Araiza (Ferrando), James Morris (Guglielmo), Sesto Bruscantini (Don Alfonso) & Kathleen Battle (Despina)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti (conductor) & Michael Hampe (director)
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Verdi: Attila
Samuel Ramey (Attila), Cheryl Studer (Odabella), Giorgio Zancanaro (Ezio), Kaludi Kaludov (Foresto), Ernesto Gavazzi (Uldino), Mario Luperi (Leone)
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
Spectacular and pacy, Attila fills the stage with barbarians, gives them good tunes to sing and places them in a busy world where every moment may bring a reversal of fortune. Moreover, the four... — More…
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Offer,
Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato Alessandro Corbelli (Marcaniello), Nuccia Focile (Ascanio), Amelia Felle (Nena), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Nina), Luciana d'Intino (Luggrezia), Ezio di Cesare (Carlo), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (Vannella), Nicoletta Curiel (Cardella), Bruno de Simone (Don Pietro), Luca Bonini (Lo schermidore)
Orchestra...
…delivered with a polish that makes almost every moment a delight. …the comic brilliance of the baritones Alessandro Corbelli and Bruno De Simone, the lustrous voices of the sopranos Nuccia... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Adrianne Pieczonka (Anna), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Elvira), Angelika Kirchschlager (Zerlina), Michael Schade (Ottavio), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello); Vienna State Opera, Riccardo Muti, Roberto De Simone (director)
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Haydn: The Creation
Lucia Popp, Francisco Araiza, Samuel Ramey, Olaf Bär & Iris Vermillion
Wiener Philharmoniker & Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
There is plenty of glamour, and Muti is excitingly dramatic. — More…
