Browse: Verdi - O inferno!...Sento avvampar nell'anima (from Simon Boccanegra)

This is a well chosen selection of tenor arias with a few comparative rarities to offset the more obvious favourites. In its way it is a mini-history of a century of Italian opera, from Donizetti's... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

his musicianship melds with his keen interpretative intelligence to achieve real and extraordinary success...Otello on stage may still be ahead of him, but he explores the depths of 'Dio mi potevi'... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The two Mefistofele arias receive near-ideal performances, the Pearl Fishers romance (one of two items in which soprano duties are nicely undertaken by Aleksandra Kurzak) is enchanting, and the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

he sounds ripe for bigger Verdi here...The “standards” from Puccini and Cilea suggest that Vargas has the heroic heft so lacking among today’s leading tenorini. If not subtle, always exciting. — Sunday Times, 9th June 2013 More…

Pirgu's timbre isn't quite Italianate but he sounds rather like Giuseppe di Stefano in the area from A flat to B flat above the stave - slightly strained but exciting too...The heroic ring in... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…