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Rossini: La Gazzetta (Gran Teatre del Liceu)
Cinzia Forte (Lisetta); Bruno Praticò (Don Pomponio); Charles Workman (Alberto); Pietro Spagnoli (Filippo); Agata Bienkowska (Madame La Rose); Marisa Martins (Doralice);
"...a tour de force of acrobatic silliness and barbed social satire. Of the cast, which included the inimitable BrunoPraticò and the lovely Cinzia Forte...it can only be said that it is difficult to imagine the piece sung or acted better." (The Financial Times)
Rossini: Mosè in Egitto (Rossini Opera Festival)
Riccardo Zanellato (Moses); Alex Esposito (Faraone); Sonia Ganassi (Elcia); Dmitry Korchak (Osiride);
"Vocally and physically, Dmitry Korchak is almost perfect as Osiride. His outstanding technique is forever at the service of an even more remarkable musicianship." (Seen and Heard International)
Rossini: Two Classic Operas (Glyndebourne)
Danielle de Niese (Rosina (Barbiere)); Alessandro Corbelli (Dr Bartolo (Barbiere)); Taylor Stayton (Count Almaviva (Barbiere)); Björn Bürger (Figaro (Barbiere)); Christophoros Stamboglis (Basilio (Barbiere)); Janis Kelly (Berta (Barbiere)); Raquela Sheeran (Clorinda (Cenerentola)); Lucia Cirillo (Tisbe (Cenerentola)); Ruxandra Donose (Angelina (Cenerentola)); Nathan Berg (Alidoro (Cenerentola)); Luciano di Pasquale (Don Magnifico (Cenerentola)); Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro (Cenerentola));
"... the combination of ensemble precision and focused individual performances, so crucial to Rossinian comedy, is beautifully judged ... Corbelli’s Bartolo is an object lesson in comic understatement. Bürger rightly dominates with singing of great bravado and warmth ... this is a performance of considerable distinction. Enrique Mazzola’s conducting is spot on in its combination of energy and exactitude and the London Philharmonic plays with admirable spirit and finesse." (The Guardian (Barbiere))
Rossini: William Tell (The Royal Opera)
Gerald Finley (Guillaume Tell); John Osborn (Arnold Melchtal); Malin Byström (Mathilde); Alexander Vinogradov (Walter Furst); Sofia Fomina (Jemmy); Nicolas Courjal (Gesler); Eric Halfvarson (Melchtal); Michael Colvin (Rodolphe);
"Gerald Finley articulates Tell’s agonies with immense authority" (The Evening Standard)
Russian Opera Classics (De Nederlandse Opera; Fundacio Gran Teatre del Liceu)
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Lady Macbeth (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)); Misha Didyk (Hermann (Pique Dame)); Orlin Anastassov (Boris Godunov (Boris Gudunov)); Alessandra Marianelli (Xenia (Boris Gudunov)); Bo Skovhus (Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)); Andrej Dunaev (Lensky (Eugene Onegin)); Vladimir Vaneev (Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich (Kitezh)); Maxim Aksenov (Prince Vsevolod Yuryevich (Kitezh)); Svetlana Ignatovich (Fevroniya (Kitezh)); Ian Storey (Grigory (Boris Gudunov));
"Orchestrally and vocally outstanding." (The Opera Critic - Boris Godunov)
Scarlatti: Dove è amore è gelosia (National Theatre of Prague)
Lenka Máčiková (Marquise Clarice); Aleš Briscein (Count Orazio); Kateřina Kněžíková (Vespetta); Jaroslav Březina (Patrizio); Bohumil Klepl (Servant); Taťána Kupcová (Marquise);
"Cesky Krumlov is a time-capsule of baroque theatrical techniques and something more, too: a clue to the entire style and era." (The Daily Telegraph)