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Verdi: Don Carlos

Luigi Roni

Opera - Released January 1, 1979 | Orfeo

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Verdi: Don Carlo

Coro Lirico Amadeus Teatro Comunale di Modena

Classical - Released April 16, 2014 | C Major

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Verdi

Ludovic Tezier

Classical - Released February 5, 2021 | Sony Classical

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It was time for Ludovic Tézier to finally provide his admirers with a recital. His performances as a Verdian baritone are impressive: Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Falstaff, Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Posa (Don Carlo), Le Conte De Luna (Il Trovatore), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Iago (Otello). And almost all of these are reprised in this solo album. To this impressive list of stage roles, Tézier brings the welcome addition of arias from Ernani, Macbeth and Nabucco all accompanied by Frédéric Chaslin at the head of the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. It was in 1998 in Tel Aviv that the French baritone played his first Verdian role. He was thirty years old when he was Ford in a production of Falstaff. "There is an absolutely fascinating energy in Verdi, both for the audience and for the singers", he admits. "His roles are usually very challenging, but his music acts at the same time as a fountain of youth. Verdi is brimming with vitality, which is what allowed me to return to the stage just two days after my father's death". Now with a fully-matured voice, Ludovic Tézier is in demand all over the world for his Verdi roles. He is one of the best performers of Verdi's work, standing alongside the late Piero Cappuccilli who remains his great role model. This record offers timely confirmation of his stature. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Verdi: Don Carlo

Luciano Pavarotti/Samuel Ramey/Riccardo Muti/Daniella Dessì/Luciana d'Intino/Paolo Coni

Classical - Released January 1, 1994 | Warner Classics

EMI's release of this 1992 live performance of the standard four-act version of Don Carlo at La Scala makes a strong addition to the catalog. Riccardo Muti's dramatically charged conducting and the energy that comes from live performances play a large part in making this such a compelling version. Muti gives full reign to the grand passions and dramatic contrasts of Verdi's panoramic score, making this one of the most theatrically urgent recordings available. The orchestra of La Scala plays with fiery intensity, and with better intonation and more finesse than in some of its live recordings. The production was clearly organized around Luciano Pavarotti's Don Carlo, and he delivers a performance that's notable for its restraint. This is very much an ensemble opera, and Pavarotti's contribution is that of a team player rather than a superstar scrambling for the spotlight. That being said, his performance is fully and appropriately committed and passionate, and he's in strong voice. The male leads are consistently stellar. Samuel Ramey captures the complexity and conflict of Filippo, and sings with resonance and richness. Paolo Coni had a limited recording career, but he practically steals the show here with the nobility and thrilling vocal power of his Rodrigo. Alexander Anissimov manages to sound both ancient and dangerously powerful, an ideal combination of characteristics for the Inquisitor. Daniela Dessì as Elisabetta and Luciana d'Intino as Eboli are very nearly in the same vocal league as the men. Both have full, penetrating voices, but with an occasional slight edge that keeps their performances from being as fully realized as those of the men. They aren't helped by a recording ambience that's a little too bright. Otherwise, the sound is good for a live recording, with nice balance between the voices and orchestra. Overall, Muti's version is a strong contender in the field of recordings of the opera.© TiVo
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Verdi : Le Trouvère (Diapason n°609)

Choeur de L'Opera de Vienne

Classical - Released September 25, 2011 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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The Verdi Album

Sonya Yoncheva

Classical - Released February 2, 2018 | Sony Classical

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For huge fans of Yoncheva, this is a beautiful collection of some of the Verdian soprano's finest moments. Half of the tracks are great hits: Otello and his famous prayer, Don Carlo, Nabucco, Il Trovatore and La forza del destino, the other half being made up of lesser-known works such as Stiffelio, Luisa Miller or Attila. The Bulgarian soprano (note that she was born in 1981, and is already a star at the peak of her career) demonstrates at once the warmth of her voice, an instrument fallen from heaven, with her mezzo tones and the range of her great lyrical voice, but also her bel canto vocal technique which is deployed to great effect in this brilliant repertoire. More purist listeners might have issues with her way of making her attacks "from below" in the Italian style, but that is her stylistic and technical choice, and it is a choice shared by a good proportion of lyrical singers who work with the Italian repertoire. This studio recording was created in 2017. © SM/Qobuz
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Napoli!

Ophélie Gaillard

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | Aparté

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In 1750, Naples was the eighth-largest city in the world, but its music of the Baroque and early Classical periods remains much less well-known than that of Rome, Venice, or Milan. Pergolesi is a familiar figure, of course, and Alessandro Scarlatti, but many of the composers here -- Emanuele Barbella, Andrea Falconieri, Leonardo Leo, and many more -- will be known mostly to specialists, if even to them. Ophélie Gaillard has managed to put together a double album of Neapolitan works for the cello, a comparatively new instrument at the time. One draw here is her violoncello piccolo, a small, bright, agile five-string cello often used during the Italian Baroque. Best of all, though, is that Gaillard succeeds in living up to the exclamation point in her Napoli! title. She deploys a variety of pieces that capture Naples' musical distinctiveness and imagination. It is not just the tuneful opera arias, although there are several of those, featuring an unusually strong trio of singers in soprano Sandrine Piau, mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti, and countertenor Luan Góes, as well as cello sonatas that borrow an operatic idiom. There is also a wealth of instrumental music, some of it arranged for the cello. Sample the delightful Sonata intitolata Arlecchino, Arlecchinessa, Rosetta, e Pulcinello, where the cello takes on the personalities of figures from the commedia dell'arte. Several pieces here are world premieres, and there isn't a dull one in the whole large bunch. About the only complaint here is Aparte's unidiomatic and boomy church sound, but there is enough interesting music here to make that complaint a minor one.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Vivaldi: In furore, laudate pueri e concerti sacri

Sandrine Piau

Classical - Released January 1, 2005 | naïve classique

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Il maestro Porpora : Arias

Franco Fagioli

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released September 29, 2014 | naïve classique

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Diva Eterna

Montserrat Caballé

Classical - Released October 4, 2019 | Sony Classical - Sony Music

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Verdi : Ernani (Remastered)

Thomas Schippers

Classical - Released January 1, 1968 | Sony Classical

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Verdi : I due Foscari (Live)

Ivan Repušić

Opera - Released July 5, 2019 | BR-Klassik

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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Remastered)

Erich Leinsdorf

Classical - Released January 1, 1967 | Sony Classical

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Verdi : Aida (Remastered)

Erich Leinsdorf

Classical - Released January 1, 1971 | Sony Classical

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« En 1970, neuf ans après la mythique version Solti, Leontyne Price, malgré un médium moins nourri, reste une Aïda d'anthologie, d'une irrésistible sensualité. Sous la baguette experte d'Erich Leinsdorf, à Londres, Grace Bumbry, séduisante et redoutable, Placido Domingo entre vaillance et abandon, Sherill Milnes, père inflexible, sont à sa hauteur.» (Diapason, mars 2018 / Didier Van Moere)
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Puccini : Madama Butterfly (Remastered)

Erich Leinsdorf

Classical - Released January 13, 2015 | Sony Classical

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«  ...The newly mixed complete recording under the baton of Erich Leindorf cannot deny its age in the dynamically restricted heights, but it is still convincing — with a cast that has already become legendary. » FonoForum 6/88
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Bologna 1666

Kammerorchester Basel

Classical - Released January 27, 2017 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Established in 1666, the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna was one of the most influential music schools in Italy, and after four and a half centuries, its membership has included some of the greatest Italian composers and musicians. This 2017 Deutsche Harmonia Mundi release by Julia Schröder and the Kammerorchester Basel presents music from the academy's archives, much of which hasn't been performed since the Baroque era. The names of Giuseppe Torelli, Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, and Giuseppe Matteo Alberti may be familiar to dedicated classical listeners, though even they may not recognize Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Giacomo Antonio Perti, or Girolami Nicolò Laurenti, even though the style of their works is wholly familiar and appealing. The sinfonias of Colonna and Perti represent the instrumental music that served as introductions to vocal and choral works, which were the focus of the academy's founding members, while the concertos by Torelli, Alberti, Zavateri, and Laurenti show the emphasis on instrumental works by the following generation, which spread across Italy to the rest of Europe. Also included is an anonymous concerto, dedicated to St. Petronius, the patron of Bologna, and even though its authorship remains a mystery, it offers some of the freshest sonorities of the album. Schröder and her musicians present these obscure pieces in authentic period style, and the virtuosity of their playing keeps the program engaging and colorful, while DHM provides extraordinary reproduction.© TiVo
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"Amor fatale". Rossini Arias

Marina Rebeka

Opera Extracts - Released October 6, 2017 | BR-Klassik

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Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Gounod, Verdi...

Anita Rachvelishvili

Opera Extracts - Released March 2, 2018 | Sony Classical

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It's one of those fairy stories that the world of lyrical music likes to keep secret. Still an unknown and barely emerged from the La Scala Lyrical Academy, Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili was given the title role in Carmen by Baremboim, alongside Jonas Kaufman: an international career seemed to beckon for the young singer. And so here we will hear some of opera's great tunes, including, of course, the hits from Carmen, but also the two great arias from Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns, a pair from Verdi, a touch of Mascagni, some Rimski – less-frequently performed, it is true – and a rarity from his compatriot Dimitri Arakishvili (1873-1953) whose style is solidly anchored in the Russia of his day, with several, probably regional, twists. Since 2009, she has sung Carmen's role around three hundred times, and we can only hope that she never gets bogged down in it - and takes on Santuzza, Eboli, Dalil: in other words, the great characters of the dramatic mezzo repertoire. © SM/Qobuz
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Donizetti : Don Pasquale

Riccardo Muti/Mirella Freni/Sesto Bruscantini/Leo Nucci/Gösta Winbergh

Classical - Released April 11, 1988 | Warner Classics

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Pavarotti Sings Rare Verdi Arias

Luciano Pavarotti

Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | Sony Classical

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