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Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia [The barber of Seville] (complete opera) Roberto Servile, Sonia Ganassi, Ramon Vargas / Hungarian Radio Chorus / Failoni Chamber orchestra / Will Humburg [ Naxos Opera Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Radio 3: Building a Library Budget Choice - December 2001 |
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Rossini: L'Occasione fa il ladro (complete opera recorded in 2017) Rossini in Wildbad / Patrick Kabongo, Vera Talerko, Kenneth Tarver, Lorenzo Regazzo / Virtuosi Brunensis, Antonino Foglian [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Recorded at the Köngliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad, Germany, 13 and 22 July 2017 |
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Rossini: L'Occasione fa il ladro (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Rossini in Wildbad / Patrick Kabongo, Vera Talerko, Kenneth Tarver, Lorenzo Regazzo / Virtuosi Brunensis, Antonino Foglian [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Recorded at the Köngliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad, Germany, 13 and 22 July 2017 |
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Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia (complete opera recorded live August 2012) Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro / Ewa Podles, Jessica Pratt, Michael Spyres, Mirco Palazzi / Will Crutchfield (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "Podles makes for a feisty Ciro, her black treacle contralto imperious, even if her coloratura is now a little effortful...Pratt's Amira is excellent...The audience's matinee idol here, though, is Michael Spyres...a bari-tenor if ever there was one!" |
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Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia (complete opera recorded live August 2012) BLU-RAY Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro / Ewa Podles, Jessica Pratt, Michael Spyres, Mirco Palazzi / Will Crutchfield (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "There are few better exponents of this genre of Rossini trouser roles, and this one in particular, than Ewa Podles. Formidable in her vocal range, she makes more than a cardboard character out of the part with outstanding acting and singing"MusicWeb |
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Rossini: Guillaume Tell [William Tell] (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Gerald Finley, Malin Byström, John Osborn, Sofia Fomina, Nicolas Courjal / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Aug/2017 ] Rossini's final opera helped to lay the foundations of the genre of French grand opéra that dominated European stages throughout the mid-19th century. The opera's theme is liberty, as exemplified in the struggle against Austrian occupation led by the... |
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino (Complete opera) Samuel Ramey, Kathleen Battle, Claudio Desderi / English Chamber Orchestra, Ion Marin [ Deusche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jun/1993 ] "What a cast there is on DG - so expert and experienced they can't fail to bring the score wonderfully to life" (Gramophone) |
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Rossini: Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra (complete opera recorded in 2021) Serena Farnocchia, Patrick Kabongo, Mert Süngü, Veronica Marini / Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Rossini's rarely performed Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra was his first opera for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. With the composer showcasing and indeed recycling some of his best music, it was an enormous success and allowed him to become... |
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L'Inganno felice (Complete opera) Simon Bailey / Lorenzo Regazzo / Marco Vinco / Czech Chamber Soloists, Brno / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Rossini's 'rescue opera' L'inganno felice (The Happy Deception) won immediate contemporary popularity after its first performance in 1812. One of the composer's most inventive and sparkling scores, with soprano, tenor and bass arias of great beauty,... |
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Malmo Opera / Leonardo Ferrando, Erika Miklósa, Daniela Pini, Lars Arvidson, Igor Bakan / Tobias Ringborg (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2018 ] Le Comte Ory is the last of Rossini's comic operas, making full use of the libretto's farcical disguises and humour in one of his most colourfully orchestrated scores. |
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Le Comte Ory (Complete Opera) Sumi Jo / John Aler / Gilles Cachemaille / Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opera de Lyon / John Elliot Gardiner [ Philips / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] Rosette (Highest Award) Penguin Stereo Guide "This very welcome re-issue of the 1988 recording will cost a micro-fraction of that. It should be part of any collection of the composer’s works." (MusicWeb Nov 2005) |
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Moise et Pharaon (complete opera recorded in 2004) Teatro all Scala / Barbara Frittoli / Sonia Ganassi / Giuseppe Filianoti / Ildar Abdrazakov / Erwin Schrott / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] G :- "A vivid and well-sung performance of a work that deserves greater circulation. It is a very welcome and highly recommended issue" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
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Rossini: La Cenerentola (complete opera.recorded in 1981) Teatro alla Scala / Frederica von Stade / Margherita Guglielmi / Laura Zannini / Francisco Araiza / Claudio Desderi / Paolo Montarsolo / Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2005 ] Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's staging of this classic fairy tale, originally created for the San Francisco Opera in 1969, has been one of the most successful opera stagings of the 20th century |
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L'Italiana in Algeri [An Italian in Algeries] (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Anna Goryachova, Alex Esposito, Yijie Shi & Mario Cassi / José Ramón Encinar [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Pesaro's new offering in 2013 was an off-the-wall production of Rossini's popular comedy, 'The Italian Girl in Algiers', presented as a Swinging Sixties, James Bond adventure, set in the desert oil fields of the North African coast. Davide... |
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Sigismondo (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Daniela Barcellona, Olga Peretyatko, Antonio Siragusa / Michele Mariotti (cond) / Jonathan Webb, conductor [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] Early Rossini has something buoyant, vibrant, youthful about it - even when it is a "dramma per musica" such as Sigismondo, a dark swirl of an opera revolving around a mad king and his delusions. |
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Rossini: Matilde di Shabran (complete opera recorded in 2012) Teatro Comunale di Bologno / Juan Diego Florez, Anna Goryachova, Olga Peretyatko / Michele Mariotti (cond) [ Decca DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] The opera that few tenors dare sing and which Flórez has made his own throughout his career. |
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Rossini: Matilde di Shabran (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologno / Juan Diego Florez, Anna Goryachova, Olga Peretyatko / Michele Mariotti (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 12/Dec/2019 ] The opera that few tenors dare sing and which Flórez has made his own throughout his career. Recorded at the 2012 Pesaro Festival, Flórez reprises the role that shot him to stardom in 1996 aged twenty-three. Conducting is the up-and-coming... |
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Rossini: La Cenerentola (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Teatro Opera of Rome / Serena Malfi, Juan Francisco Gatell, Alessandro Corbelli, Vito Priante / Alejo Pérez (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2020 ] Rossini's second masterpiece La Cenerentola premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome on the 25th of January 1817, less than a year after the first performance of his The Barber of Seville and it ́s pure, perfect Rossini. In this production, a set-up... |
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Rossini: Il Barbiere de Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (complete opera recorded in 2005) Teatro Real, Madrid / Maria Bayo / Juan Diego Florez / Pietro Spagnoli / Ruggero Raimondi / Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor) [ Decca DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] G :- A top international cast including soprano María Bayo, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, and the great bass baritone Ruggero Raimondi. |
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Il barbiere di Siviglia (opera recorded 2011) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio di Parma / Ketevan Kemoklidze, Luca Salsi, Dmitry Korchak / Andrea Battistoni (cond) [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 7/Aug/2011 ] All performers know exactly the role they are required to play and how best to carry it off. |