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Jesús López Cobos, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne - Gioacchino Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (1998)

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Jesús López Cobos, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne - Gioacchino Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (1998)

Jesús López Cobos, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne - Gioacchino Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 620 Mb | Total time: 71:28+75:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 17130-2 | Recorded: 1997

Rossini liked to write operas about women (specifically mezzo-sopranos) who were smarter than the men around them, such as Rosina in "The Barber of Seville" and Angelina in "La Cenerentola." This charming, melodious bit of operatic fluff, composed before either of those two better-known operas, is dedicated to the proposition that an Italian woman is a match for any man or group of men. The thesis is tested in an extreme situation; Isabella (Larmore) is shipwrecked on the coast of a place where shipwrecked Europeans were routinely enslaved and, if they were women, consigned to a harem.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (2013)

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (2013)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 763 Mb | Total time: 178:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 0641 | Recorded: 2012

This Così fan tutte enchanted the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus audience when recorded in concert in 2012, with Nézet-Séguin inspiring his stellar cast to feats of vocal derring-do. An enthusiastic advocate of Mozart s music, Rolando Villazón takes on the lead tenor role. Das Opernglas hailed his debut as Ferrando, calling him ideal for the role we have not heard a more beautiful, better sung and deeper felt Un aura amorosa in a long time. Starring a thrilling cast of both young and experienced Mozart opera stars including accomplished soprano Mojca Erdmann as Despina, acclaimed Mozartian soprano Miah Persson and prize-winning young American mezzo Angela Brower as the emotionally manipulated sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella. Also joining this crème-de-la-crème cast are distinguished Mozart bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Guglielmo and Italian buffo baritone Alessandro Corbelli as Alfonso.

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)

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Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 668 Mb | Total time: 72:54+75:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 436 902-2 | Recorded: 1992

It is probably now or never. With classic older sets vying with a clutch of more recent recordings, there is currently as complete and interesting an array of recordings of Rossini's La Cenerentola as we are likely to get at any one time. Among recent versions, Chailly's new Decca set is self-evidently a powerful contender. Cecilia Bartoli is arguably the most personable and musically accomplished Cenerentola since Teresa Berganza recorded the role with Abbado in 1971; and there is a strong cast of supporting principals, among them Alessandro Corbelli who offers the best characterized Dandini since Bruscantini. (With the added advantage of being far more technically expert in fioriture passages than was his distinguished predecessor.)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Cecilia Bartoli - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (1998)

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Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Cecilia Bartoli - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (1998)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Cecilia Bartoli - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 581 Mb | Total time: 141:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 458 924-2 | Recorded: 1997

Cecilia Bartoli remains one of the world's finest Rossini singers and she proves it again with Il Turco in Italia, her 1st complete Rossini recording since 1993. The performance was recorded in Milan, with the power of the La Scala Orchestra & Chorus and the best Rossini an cast possible, led - of course - by Cecilia Bartoli's coloratura, more brilliant than ever.

Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: La scala di seta (2006)

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Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: La scala di seta (2006)

Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: La scala di seta (2006)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 94 min | 6.65 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: EuroArts | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol | Recorded: 1992

Thousands of music enthusiasts are drawn each year to the Schwetzingen Festival in the time-honored walls of the beautiful Rokokotheater, an ideal place for Rossini's farse, his light one-act operas from the early part of his career. These operas already contain all the elements with which Rossini later took the music world by storm: melodic inventiveness, ingenious connections between sung lines and orchestral accompaniment, musical humor and emsembles using breathtakingly fast parlando singing. The witty and ironical relaization of these musical comedies by Michael Hampe and conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti with a great ensemble of singers was met with enthusiastic approval and makes the present recordings milestones in the still young Rossini videography and the very rare productions in this genre.

Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: L' Occasione fa il ladro (2006)

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Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: L' Occasione fa il ladro (2006)

Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: L' Occasione fa il ladro (2006)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 100 min | 6.80 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: EuroArts | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol | Recorded: 1990

Thousands of music enthusiasts are drawn each year to the Schwetzingen Festival in the time-honored walls of the beautiful Rokokotheater, an ideal place for Rossini's farse, his light one-act operas from the early part of his career. These operas already contain all the elements with which Rossini later took the music world by storm: melodic inventiveness, ingenious connections between sung lines and orchestral accompaniment, musical humor and emsembles using breathtakingly fast parlando singing. The witty and ironical relaization of these musical comedies by Michael Hampe and conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti with a great ensemble of singers was met with enthusiastic approval and makes the present recordings milestones in the still young Rossini videography and the very rare productions in this genre.

Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino (2006)

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Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino (2006)

Gianluigi Gelmetti, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart - Gioacchino Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino (2006)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 98 min | 6.52 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: EuroArts | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol | Recorded: 1989

Thousands of music enthusiasts are drawn each year to the Schwetzingen Festival in the time-honored walls of the beautiful Rokokotheater, an ideal place for Rossini's farse, his light one-act operas from the early part of his career. These operas already contain all the elements with which Rossini later took the music world by storm: melodic inventiveness, ingenious connections between sung lines and orchestral accompaniment, musical humor and emsembles using breathtakingly fast parlando singing. The witty and ironical relaization of these musical comedies by Michael Hampe and conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti with a great ensemble of singers was met with enthusiastic approval and makes the present recordings milestones in the still young Rossini videography and the very rare productions in this genre.

Claudio Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker, Agnes Baltsa, Ruggero Raimondi - Gioacchino Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri (1989)

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Claudio Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker, Agnes Baltsa, Ruggero Raimondi - Gioacchino Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri (1989)

Claudio Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker, Agnes Baltsa, Ruggero Raimondi - Gioacchino Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 557 Mb | Total time: 65:09+60:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 427 331-2 | Recorded: 1987

A studio recording made in association with staged performances in Vienna in 1989 features the very beefy Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Abbado with Agnes Baltsa’s tangy mezzo giving a very characterful portrayal as Isabella. …[E]xpert Rossinians Corbelli and Enzo Dara sing Haly and Taddeo and are joined by a very characterful Ruggero Raimondi as Mustafa. Despite the size of the band, the performance goes along with zip with the finale of act one particularly invigorating.

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato (2004)

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Riccardo Muti, Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato (2004)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato (2004)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 172 min | 7,30 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Sub: English | Recorded: 1989

A rare recording of Pergolesi's second opera, a comic and colourful tale of tangled love in which three girls resist their arranged marriages in pursuit of the same young man. Rediscovered by conductor Riccardo Muti, this forgotten jewel sparkles in its 1989 period production.

Bruno Campanella, Orchestre et Choers de l'Opéra National de Paris - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2007/1998)

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Bruno Campanella, Orchestre et Choers de l'Opéra National de Paris - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2007/1998)

Bruno Campanella, Orchestre et Choers de l'Opéra National de Paris - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2007/1998)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.83 Gb (DVD9) | 148 min
Classical | TDK | Sub.: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano, Japanese

TDK presents a production of Rossinis LItaliana in Algeri by renowned opera stage director Andrei Serban and conducted by Bruno Campanella from the prestigious Opéra National de Paris. The excellent cast of singer-actors was led by international mezzo- star Jennifer Larmore who, with her unaffected contact with the audience, beautiful voice and excellent acting, is central to this staging. The American singer has acquired a reputation as a Rossini specialist, and is no stranger to inventive stagings of the composers comedies. However, the work may be named after the Italian girl, but her adversary Mustafà is just as dominant, and this production has one of the leading exponents of this gleeful role, the buffo bass Simone Alaimo.

Alejo Pérez, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma - Rossini: La Cenerentola (2020) [BDRip]

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Alejo Pérez, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma - Rossini: La Cenerentola (2020) [BDRip]

Alejo Pérez, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Serena Malfi - Rossini: La Cenerentola (2020) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 161 min | 3,40 Gb
Audio: Italiano / AC3 / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 256 Kbps
Classical | C Major | Sub: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese

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 made to celebrate 200 years Rossini in Rome, Emma Dante ́s “rousing Cinderella” (Corriere della Sera) “succeeds in impressing her own contemporary vision on a classic masterpiece, in perfect symbiosis with the spirit of Rossini.” (Opera Now) “Alejo Pérez deserves the credit for an excellent ensemble and a dazzling rhythmic rendering of the Rossinian score.” (La Nazione – Il Resto del Carlino – Il Giorno)

Charles Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2008)

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Charles Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2008)

Charles Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 771 Mb | Total time: 183:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Telars | # 3CD-80726 | Recorded: 1995

This is the second fine Don Giovanni we have had within the past year. Like Gardiner (Archiv), Mackerras includes every note Mozart wrote for both the original Prague version and the Viennese revival. Moreover, it is easier than ever for listeners to ‘programme in’ their preferred version: all Prague die-hards have to do is to bypass Don Ottavio’s ‘Dalla sua pace’ in Act I – a beautiful aria, in all conscience, though it holds up the dramatic action at a crucial stage. By coaxing a modern orchestra into a real awareness of period style, Mackerras seems to have the best of both worlds: the playing has admirable liveliness and intensity, and there are none of the intonation problems that so often plague actual period instruments.

Antonio Pappano, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2010) [Blu-Ray]

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Antonio Pappano, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2010) [Blu-Ray]

Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Antonio Pappano, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez) (2010) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 177 min | 45,5 Gb
Audio1: Italiano / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 177 min | 8,13 Gb
Audio: Italiano / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bit | DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bit
Classical | Erato | Sub: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish

Captured live at London’s Royal Opera House, this Barbiere, with its unbeatable cast and the directors’ characteristic wit and intelligence, offers a unique dramatic twist: Joyce DiDonato, who had broken her leg on the opening night, went on with the show. As she said: “Being trapped in the wheelchair was a quite literal way of demonstrating Rosina's huge desire to break free.

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2019) [BDRip]

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Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2019) [BDRip]

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2019) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 162 min | 4,84 Gb
Audio: Italiano / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Unitel Edition | Sub: English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese

“The role of Isabella is sung to perfection by Cecilia Bartoli – a clever, independent woman with an adventurous streak” (New York Times). Bartoli’s superb performance in Gioachino Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) at Salzburg Festival, directed by the BAFTA-winning stage director duo Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, is a highlight among the Rossini celebrations on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death. The DVD captures Bartoli’s excellent performance in a rare audiovisual recording of the Italian superstar, who is one of the most successful opera singers of our time. In this vibrant comedy, every look, every hand gesture brings Isabella to life: Bartoli presents the spirited Italian woman with fire, finesse and extraordinary acting abilities – “a Rossini masterclass” (Bachtrack).

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Puccini: Gianni Schicchi & Rachmaninov: The Miserly Knight (2008) [Blu-Ray]

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Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Puccini: Gianni Schicchi & Rachmaninov: The Miserly Knight (2008) [Blu-Ray]

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Puccini: Gianni Schicchi & Rachmaninov: The Miserly Knight (2008) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 32000 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 162 min | 41 Gb
Audio1: Italiano, Русский / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: LPCM Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 6912 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | OPUS ARTE | Sub: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian

Alessandro Corbelli takes the title role in Annabel Arden’s whirlwind production of Puccini’s compact opera, in which the scheming Gianni Schicchi retrieves for himself the spoils of a disinherited family to pave the way for his daughter to marry her love. As performed at Glyndebourne, Gianni Schicci is here combined in a double bill with Rachmaninov's dark setting of Alexander Pushkin's 'little tragedy'. The Miserly Knight, also directed by Annabel Arden and featuring an outstanding performance from Sergei Leiferkus in the role written for the great Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin.