DVD Video, Roberto Alagna (tenor)
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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedElina Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Keith Miller (Zuniga), Elizabeth Caballero (Frasquita), Sandra Piques Eddy (Mercedes), Earle Patriarco (Dancaire), Keith Jameson (Remandado), Trevor Scheunemann (Morales)
Metropolitan...
...everyone on stage, from stars to comprimarios and children (authentically underfoot), crackles with individual life, ideal on video... Garanča's clean-cut Baltic mezzo and fresh good looks... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Roberto Alagna (Carlos), Karita Mattila (Elisabeth de Valois), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigue), Jose van Dam (Philippe), Waltraud Meier (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Paris Theatre du Chatelet, Antonio Pappano
This performance appeared on VHS back in March 1997. On a new, wide-screen television, it makes a far more arresting effect. The action seems to be happening in the room with you.
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Puccini: La Rondine
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Magda), Roberto Alagna (Ruggero), Lisette Oropesa (Lisette), Samuel Ramey (Ramblado), Marius Brenciu (Prunier)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Marco Armiliato
Armiliato's conducting...captures the right warmth, and the former Dream Team still look superb...The lyrical young Ruggero still suits Alagna...Ramey's now leathery tone embodies Ramblado's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th September 2010
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33 CDs + 19 DVD Videos
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Leontina Vaduva (Juliette), Sarah Walker (Gertrude), Robert Lloyd (Frère Laurence), Peter Sidhom (Capulet), Paul Charles Clarke (Tybalt), David Wilson-Johnson (Le Prince), Jeremy White (Gregorio), François Le Roux (Mercutio), Anne Maria Panzarella (Stéphano), Richard Halton...
Leontina Vaduva is a touching Juliette… There's real passion in her Tomb aria… Roméo is the role that catapulted tenor Roberto Alagna into a celebrity. Best of all is Charles Mackerras conducting... — More…
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Puccini: Tosca
Angela Gheorghiu (Tosca), Roberto Alagna (Cavaradossi), Ruggero Raimondi (Scarpia), Enrico Fissore (Sagristano), Maurizio Muraro (Angelotti), David Cangelosi (Spoletta), Sorin Colibran (Sciarrone), James Savage-Hanford (Un pastore), Gwynne Howell (Un carceriere)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal...
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette); Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, sung by Kühn’s Mixed Choir, Prague, Anton Guadagno (conductor) & Barbara Willis Sweete (director)
Romeo was Roberto Alagna’s finest role in the first half of his career, and the audio-visual documentation of his interpretation makes it entirely clear why he succeeded in winning over both... — More…
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Gala Performances Box Set
Maria Deller-Takemura, Philip Mosley, Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Darcey Bussell, Zoltán Solymosi, Paata Burchuladze, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Leanne Benjamin, Tetsuya Kumakawa, Elizabeth McGorian, Adam Cooper, Iohna Loots, Viviana Durante, Bruce Sansom, Robert Lloyd, Dwayne Croft,...
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Great Opera Arias
A Gala Concert From The Royal Opera House
Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Asher Fisch
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Offer,
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice Roberto Alagna (Orphée), Serena Gamberoni (Eurydice) & Marc Barrard (L'Amour)
Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, Giampaolo Bisanti
The first of several fade-cuts… takes us to the scene of a car crash, where paramedics pull Eurydice's body from the wreckage. Thence to the graveyard, whence all that follows is Orphée's dream.... — More…