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Handel: Rinaldo
DVD · 1 disc
$32.99
Composer
HANDEL, GEORG FRIEDRICH
Artist
Sardelli
Released
May 21, 2021
George Frideric Handel was one of those rare composers who excelled in works sacred and secular, instrumental and operatic, leaving us extraordinary masterpieces in every field of music. Already renowned in Italy, Handel made himself known in London with Rinaldo in 1711, which was such a success that he decided to remain in England for good. It is still regarded as one of his greatest operas. Set during the Crusades, Rinaldo is a lavish spectacle that tells a story of love, magic, struggles for power and ultimate reconciliation. Pier Luigi Pizzi's acclaimed production brings us into a 'dreamlike, unreal... world of spells and incantations'. (Epoca). This production by Pier Luigi Pizzi, conceived in 1985 for Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia, has traveled since to some twenty major opera houses worldwide. Discounting practical cuts and a few displacements of musical numbers, it's durable attraction lies in the gorgeous costumes and scenery, a stylish paragon of Hyperbaroque eschewing both literalism and cheap provocation. It is performed at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which was the first theatre to reopen after lockdown. The set design and direction perfectly respond to the current safety measures.
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  Dynamic · May 2021

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Handel - Leo: Rinaldo / Luisi, Orchestra La Scintilla
CD · 3 discs
$29.99
Composer
HANDEL LEO
Artist
Luisi
Released
Mar 08, 2019
For the first time in modern times, Festival della Valle d'Itria stages the Neapolitan version of Handel's Rinaldo, a pastiche with a Mediterranean allure which Leonardo Leo assembled in 1718 and which was considered lost until a few years ago. The story behind this most rare opera is captivating: the score of Handel’s masterpiece was illegally brought to Naples by the castrato singer Nicolò Grimaldi, who first interpreted Rinaldo in London. Once in Italy, the work was rehashed by Leo as well as other local composers, who adapted it to the taste of the local Neapolitan public, adding some intermezzos and amusing characters. Director Giorgio Sangati turns this work into a “ba-rock” opera set in the 1980’s, where the struggle between Christians and Turks becomes a battle between pop-rock singers (the Christians) and dark-metal ones (the Turks). These two factions represent two opposite perspectives on love and life. Conductor Fabio Luisi is at the head of the baroque Ensemble La Scintilla, a group of specialists in the baroque repertoire. Excellent reviews for the vocal cast who endured an almost 4 hour performance, special mentions to Carmela Remigio (Armida) who was defined “vocally majestic and most convincing in her acting skills”, whereas Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo) impressed the critics for her vocal and acting skills en travesti and her ability “to convey all the melancholic shades of Handel’s music” (Luca Ciammarughi, classicaviva.com).
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  Dynamic · Mar 2019

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Verdi: Il Trovatore / Sgura, Romano, Nioradze, Alvarez, Temirkanov
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VERDI, GIUSEPPE
Artist
Sgura, Romano, Nioradze, Alvarez, Temirkanov
Released
Mar 26, 2013
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Giuseppe Verdi
IL TROVATORE

Il conte di Luna – Claudio Sgura
Leonora – Teresa Romano
Azucena – Mzia Nioradze
Manrico – Marcelo Álvarez
Ferrando – Deyan Vatchkov
Ines – Cristina Giannelli
Ruiz – Roberto Jachini Virgili
Un vecchio zingaro – Enrico Rinaldo
Un messo – Seung Hwa Paek

Parma Teatro Regio Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Martino Faggiani)
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor

Lorenzo Mariani, stage director
William Orlandi, set and costume designer
Christian Pinaud, lighting designer

Recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma, 5 and 9 October 2010

Bonus:
- Introduction to Il Trovatore

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese
Running time: 140 mins (opera) + 10 mins (bonus)
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)
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  C Major Entertainment · Mar 2013

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Verdi: Il Trovatore / Sgura, Romano, Nioradze, Alvarez, Temirkanov [blu-ray]
Blu-Ray · 1 disc
$37.99
Composer
VERDI, GIUSEPPE
Artist
Sgura, Romano, Nioradze, Alvarez, Temirkanov
Released
Mar 26, 2013
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Giuseppe Verdi
IL TROVATORE
(Blu-ray Disc Version)

Il conte di Luna – Claudio Sgura
Leonora – Teresa Romano
Azucena – Mzia Nioradze
Manrico – Marcelo Álvarez
Ferrando – Deyan Vatchkov
Ines – Cristina Giannelli
Ruiz – Roberto Jachini Virgili
Un vecchio zingaro – Enrico Rinaldo
Un messo – Seung Hwa Paek

Parma Teatro Regio Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Martino Faggiani)
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor

Lorenzo Mariani, stage director
William Orlandi, set and costume designer
Christian Pinaud, lighting designer

Recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma, 5 and 9 October 2010

Bonus:
- Introduction to Il Trovatore

Picture format: 1080i High Definition
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese
Running time: 140 mins (opera) + 10 mins (bonus)
No. of Discs: 1 (BD 50)
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  Verdi: Il Trovatore / Sgura, Romano, Nioradze, Alvarez, Temirkanov [blu-ray]

  C Major Entertainment · Mar 2013

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Fra Bernardo
Cara Sposa - Mr. Haendel's Delight
CD · 1 disc
$20.99
Composer
HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC
Artist
Le Petit Concert Baroque, Mazzulli, Jaroussk
Released
Sep 18, 2020
A glance at ensemble concert plans, opera and festival programmes and recording catalogues shows that George Frederick Handel's music enjoys enormous and unwavering popularity today. Even during his lifetime, Handel's works could be heard in his homeland as well as in his adoptive country. Following a roaring success as "Caro Sassone" among the Italians his fame spread like wildfire throughout Europe before the composer finally settled among the British in London. This release from Le Petit Concert Baroque presents some of Handel's most famous selections, including several pieces from the opera "Rinaldo," from which this album takes it's title.
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  Cara Sposa - Mr. Haendel's Delight

  Fra Bernardo · Sep 2020

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MYTO Historical
Poliuto
CD · 2 discs
$13.99
Composer
DONIZETTI, GAETANO
Artist
Callas, Bastianini, Corelli, Votto, Pelizzoni, Zaccaria, De Palma, Ca
Released
Jul 10, 2015
One of the prolific Gaetano Donizetti’s lesser-produced masterworks, Poliuto, originally banned from production in Italy in the late 1830s only to return a decade in a French translation, is a story of religious persecution, punishment and marital faithfulness. This live, Antonino Votti conducted 1960 La Scala, Milan performance’s eye-watering, jealousy-inducing cast features Maria Callas, Ettore Bastianini in the vocal prime of his foreshortened career, Franco Corelli and Nicola Zaccaria. Returning to the active catalog, this release is a direct transfer from the master tapes.
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  Poliuto

  MYTO Historical · Jul 2015

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  Arias 'Love and Madness'

  Channel Classics · Jan 2009

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L'INIMICO DELLE DONNE
DVD · 1 disc
$36.99
Composer
GALUPPI, BALDASSARE
Artist
Alessandrini, Mazzonis Di Pralafera, Panzarella, Devo
Released
Jan 01, 2011
Directed by Stefano Mazzonis Di Pralafera. Starring Priscille Laplace, Filippo Adami, Alberto Rinaldi. Actors: Anna Maria Panzarella, Priscille Laplace, Filippo Adami, Alberto Rinaldi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Directors: Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera, Fabrice Levillain, Writers: Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Bertati. customer review - "I loved every minute of this opera. I don't know what Galuppi had access to in order to write such perfection. For me it was as if the entire opera was a continuous brain orgasm. Better than drugs really. (Speaking metaphorically - of course). Packed with good humor and interest."
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  L'INIMICO DELLE DONNE

  Dynamic · Jan 2011

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Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande, Czar Delle Russie / Alessandrini, Coro E Orchestra Donizetti Opera
Blu-Ray · 1 disc
$36.99
Composer
DONIZETTI, GAETANO
Artist
Alessandrini, Coro Donizetti Opera
Released
Jan 22, 2021
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Pietro il Grande, kzar delle Russie – composed when Donizetti was 22 years old – was the first of the composer’s operas to receive more than one production. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the work’s première in 2019, the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo staged this rare melodramma burlesco in a new critical edition. The influence of Rossini and Mozart is clear, but the young Donizetti still managed to create a fresh and lively work that displayed early evidence of his mature style. This Donizetti Festival performance received widespread international acclaim, with a cast of excellent singers and a unique staging by Ondadurto Teatro (Marco Paciotti and Lorenzo Pasquali), influenced by Russian avant-garde art of the early 20th century.
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  Dynamic · Jan 2021

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Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande, Czar Delle Russie / Alessandrini, Coro e Orchestra Donizetti Opera
DVD · 2 discs
$36.99
Composer
DONIZETTI, GAETANO
Artist
Alessandrini, Coro Donizetti Opera
Released
Jan 22, 2021
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Pietro il Grande, kzar delle Russie – composed when Donizetti was 22 years old – was the first of the composer’s operas to receive more than one production. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the work’s première in 2019, the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo staged this rare melodramma burlesco in a new critical edition. The influence of Rossini and Mozart is clear, but the young Donizetti still managed to create a fresh and lively work that displayed early evidence of his mature style. This Donizetti Festival performance received widespread international acclaim, with a cast of excellent singers and a unique staging by Ondadurto Teatro (Marco Paciotti and Lorenzo Pasquali), influenced by Russian avant-garde art of the early 20th century.
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  Dynamic · Jan 2021

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Arcana
Monteverdi: Il sesto libro de madrigali
CD · 1 disc
$20.99
Composer
MONTEVERDI, CLAUDIO
Artist
Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini
Released
Jan 27, 2017
Rinaldo Alessandrini is one of today’s most eminent Monteverdi authorities, and his highly acclaimed recordings with Concerto Italiano are now widely recognised as a reference point for music lovers all over the world. Recent achievements include the completion of Monteverdi’s trilogy of operas (directed by Robert Wilson) at La Scala in Milan and at the Opéra National de Paris, and a triumphal concert tour in Australia and New Zealand with the Vespro della Beata Vergine. To mark the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s birth, Arcana is proud to reissue the seminal recording of the Sixth Book of Madrigals performed by Concerto Italiano, which is also one of Arcana’s bestsellers. Rinaldo Alessandrini describes the Sixth Book as the book of separation: permanent in the case of death; temporary in the case of lovers at daybreak. It is the book of poignant expression which culminates in the cycles of lamenti, whose autobiographical character is well known: the successive deaths of Monteverdi’s wife (Claudia Cattaneo) and his favourite singer (Caterina Martinelli). Its density of expression, its ‘italianità’, not exempt from theatricality, by turns luminous and despairing, make it the place where interpretation is the fundamental element, capable of overwhelming our contemporaries.
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  Monteverdi: Il sesto libro de madrigali

  Arcana · Jan 2017

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Handel: Credo - Opera & Oratorio Duets / Korondi, Emanuel-Marial
CD · 1 disc
$20.99
Composer
Georg Friedrich Handel
Artist
Anna Korondi, Zvi Emanuel-Marial
Released
Jan 05, 2024
"Credo - a profession of faith. belief, confidence and trust in a time that is challenging for all of us. Faith in the power of music, in art and in the ability to rise up and persevere. These duet recordings were created with these thoughts in mind, making their way through Handel's opera and oratorio duets, right up to the final creative phase of his life."
Anna Korondi and Zvi Emanuel-Marial
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  Handel: Credo - Opera & Oratorio Duets / Korondi, Emanuel-Marial

  Haenssler Classic · Jan 2024

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Naxos
The A-Z of Opera [2nd Expanded Edition]
CD · 2 discs
$20.99 $29.99 Save 30%
Composer
VERDI WAGNER MOZART ADAMS
Artist
Yuan, Moll, Nielsen, Kwiecien, Ruminski, Banditelli, Frisani, Valaskova, Kertesi, Berkes, Martinucci
Released
Feb 10, 2015
The A–Z of Opera 2nd edition has been expanded to include even more composers, operas, and 130 bonus tracks. The 1,096-page book details the lives of hundreds of opera composers, and like the range of Naxos recordings itself, this set highlights the extraordinary breadth of opera and its composers across the centuries in a rich and inspiring resource.
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  Naxos · Feb 2015

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  DISCOVER OPERA

  Naxos · Oct 2006

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Handel: Rinaldo
Blu-Ray · 1 disc
$36.99
Composer
HANDEL, GEORG FRIEDRICH
Artist
Sardelli
Released
May 21, 2021
George Frideric Handel was one of those rare composers who excelled in works sacred and secular, instrumental and operatic, leaving us extraordinary masterpieces in every field of music. Already renowned in Italy, Handel made himself known in London with Rinaldo in 1711, which was such a success that he decided to remain in England for good. It is still regarded as one of his greatest operas. Set during the Crusades, Rinaldo is a lavish spectacle that tells a story of love, magic, struggles for power and ultimate reconciliation. Pier Luigi Pizzi's acclaimed production brings us into a 'dreamlike, unreal... world of spells and incantations'. (Epoca). This production by Pier Luigi Pizzi, conceived in 1985 for Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia, has traveled since to some twenty major opera houses worldwide. Discounting practical cuts and a few displacements of musical numbers, it's durable attraction lies in the gorgeous costumes and scenery, a stylish paragon of Hyperbaroque eschewing both literalism and cheap provocation. It is performed at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which was the first theatre to reopen after lockdown. The set design and direction perfectly respond to the current safety measures.
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  Dynamic · May 2021

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Opus Arte
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Alessandrini, Nigl, Invernizzi, Mingardo, Donato, Milanesi
DVD · 1 disc
$34.99
Composer
MONTEVERDI, CLAUDIO
Artist
Alessandrini, Invernizzi, Nigi, Mingardo, Donato, Milanesi
Released
Mar 29, 2011
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Monteverdi’s seminal first opera tells the dramatic story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (Georg Nigl) into the underworld to recover his beloved wife Euridice (Roberta Invernizzi), who has died from a snake bite. In a new production for La Scala, based on a painting by Titian and directed by Robert Wilson, the opera receives a powerful and inspiring performance from a fine cast, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the much-admired Italian early music specialist, Rinaldo Alessandrini.

Claudio Monteverdi
L'ORFEO

Orfeo – Georg Nigl
Euridice / Eco – Roberta Invernizzi
Messaggera / Speranza – Sara Mingardo
Caronte – Luigi De Donato
Proserpina – Raffaella Milanesi
Plutone – Giovanni Battista Parodi
Apollo – Furio Zanasi

Concerto Italiano
Milan La Scala Orchestra
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor

Robert Wilson, stage director
Jacques Reynaud, costume designer
A J Weissbard, lighting designer
Recorded live at La Teatro alla Scala, 21 and 23 December 2009.
Bonus:
- Cast gallery
- Illustrated Synopsis

Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Anamorphic
Sound format: PCM 2.0 / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Menu language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
Running time: 116 mins
No. of DVDs: 1

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  Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Alessandrini, Nigl, Invernizzi, Mingardo, Donato, Milanesi

  Opus Arte · Mar 2011

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  HANDEL, G.: Rinaldo (excerpts) / Orlando (excerpts)

  Delos · Jan 2000

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Delos
40 Tracks for 40 Years: Delos' 40th Anniversary Celebration!
CD · 3 discs
$18.99
Composer
SHOSTAKOVICH DVORAK KHACHATU
Artist
Litton, Macal, N
Released
Apr 30, 2013
Delos’ “strong personality” is due, above all, to the pioneering goals and philosophy of late founder Amelia S. Haygood, whose unshakable faith in the power of classical music, determination to record deserving American artists, championing of unusual repertoire, and cutting-edge recording technology forged an independent label that quickly gained a worldwide reputation for extraordinary artistry and the audiophile quality of its recordings. This 3-disc collection celebrates 40 choice tracks drawn from Delos’ catalog of over 500 orchestral, vocal and chamber/instrumental recordings.
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  40 Tracks for 40 Years: Delos' 40th Anniversary Celebration!

  Delos · Apr 2013

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