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Alain Guingal, Orchestra of the San Carlo Theatre Naples - Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (2000)

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Alain Guingal, Orchestra of the San Carlo Theatre Naples - Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (2000)

Alain Guingal, Orchestra of the San Carlo Theatre Naples, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Giuseppe Sabatini - Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (2000)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 6.47 Gb (DVD9) | 136 min
Classical | Image Entertainment | Sub: English

A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereux was composed in the summer of 1837, the year, according to biographers, in which Donizetti seems to have suffered most, having lost his third son and his adored wife Virginia Vasselli. The opera made its debut at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples on October 28th in the same year and was a great success. The rehearsals of the original performance were postponed for a month due to censorship of the decapitation scene of the leading actor.

Emmanuel Plasson, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana - Gaetano Donizetti: Parisina d’Este (1999)

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Emmanuel Plasson, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana - Gaetano Donizetti: Parisina d’Este (1999)

Emmanuel Plasson, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana - Gaetano Donizetti: Parisina d’Este (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 596 Mb | Total time: 61:59+68:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # 277/1-2 | Recorded: 1997

From its foreboding prelude to its melodramatic conclusion, 'Parisina' is one tuneful delight after ano- ther….Pendatchanska is a youthful protagonist. She has a warm voice of almost mezzo-soprano coloring….Hers is a major vocal talent…

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Handel: Agrippina (2011)

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René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Handel: Agrippina (2011)

René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Handel: Agrippina (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.01 Gb | Total time: 202:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 952088.90 | Recorded: 2010

Continuinghis exploration of Handel operas, maestro René Jacobs now turns his attention to Agrippina the first great operatic success of the composer s Italian period. Composed in 1709, Agrippina is an opera seria in three acts on a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. The opera tells the story of Agrippina, the mother of Nero, as she plots the downfall of the Roman Emperor Claudius and the installation of her son as emperor. Grimani s libretto, considered one of the best that Handel set, is full of topical political allusions. Some believe that it reflects the rivalry between Grimani and Pope Clement XI. From its opening night, the work was given a then- unprecedented run of 27 consecutive performances and received much critical acclaim.

Juan Bautista Otero, La Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara - Terradellas: Sesostri (2011)

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Juan Bautista Otero, La Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara - Terradellas: Sesostri (2011)

Juan Bautista Otero, La Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara - Domènec Terradellas: Sesostri (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.19 Gb | Total time: 64:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCOC Records ‎| 1102.3 | Recorded: 2010

In spite of doom-laden predictions a few years ago that the age of recorded opera was dead, fascinating new discs are being produced, often of obscure rarities – and it would be hard to be more obscure than the operas of Domènec Terradellas, who worked for a while at the King's theatre in London in the mid-1740s but whose music has completely disappeared from view. On the evidence of this lavish and dramatic opera seria for Rome and Barcelona, he was alive to the most modern trends in virtuosic vocal writing without ever quite achieving depth of feeling. Juan Bautista Otero's committed revival with his sparkling Barcelona orchestra includes some dazzling singing, with the honours shared between Alexandrina Pendatchanska's correctvicious Nitocri and Sunhae Im in the title role.

Rene Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: Don Giovanni [2007]

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Rene Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: Don Giovanni [2007]

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barocorchester - Mozart: Don Giovanni [2007]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 170' | Covers | 740 Mb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901964.66 | Rec: 2007

If there is one thing that marks out René Jacobs’s approach to Mozart, it is the way he constantly asks himself questions – and the specifically musical brilliance of the answers he comes up with. The success of his recent version of La clemenza di Tito is proof of that! After Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro, his recording of this centrepiece of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy offers us the latest fruits of his reflections on Classical opera. Premiered at the 2006 Innsbruck Festival and recorded shortly afterwards, this production is nourished by his thoughts on Don Giovanni as taboo-breaker and on a ‘physiology of roles’ that respects Mozart’s intentions as nearly as possible. NB This set contains the arias of both versions created by Mozart (Prague 1787, Vienna 1788)

Rene Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: La clenenza di Tito [2006]

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Rene Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: La clenenza di Tito [2006]

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: La clenenza di Tito [2006]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 135' | Covers | 535 Mb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901923.24 | Rec: 2006

Too much ink has been spilt on this Clemenza di Tito supposedly composed in 18 days and which, so it is said, was conspicuously out of step with the times in 1791 . . . The interpretation offered here by René Jacobs is nothing short of revolutionary. Not only does it rehabilitate the original score in its entirety, notably the recitatives: it also restores the powerfully classical inspiration so essential to opera seria. In the final years of the Enlightenment, this was still the favoured genre of the educated man, and it is sheer delight to hear the language of Metastasio beginning to sing once more. As if magic, La clemenza suddenly springs to new and exciting life.

Rene Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2008) [Blu-Ray]

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Rene Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2008) [Blu-Ray]

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2008) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 20743 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 171 min | 44,8 Gb
Audio1: Italian / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4336 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 171 min | 9,32 Gb
Audio: Italian / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | Sub: Italian, French, English, German, Spanish

After the success of Così fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro, René Jacobs' CD recording of this centrepiece of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy offered us his reflections on Classical opera and garnered serious acclaim worldwide. Performed at the Innsbruck festival in August 2006 and filmed in Baden-Baden, this production is nourished by his thoughts on Don Giovanni as taboo-breaker but still respects Mozart's intentions as closely as possible.
In the documentary Looking for Don Giovanni, the director Nayo Titzin follows the creation of this production in the search for musical truth.