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Verdi Heroines / Gheorgiu, Chailly, Giuseppe Verdi SO Milan

1 CD / Decca Import / 2013-03-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliani; Don Carlos; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Simon Boccanegra; La forza del destino; Otello
Performers: Downes, Shana; Gheorghiu, Angela; Polverelli, Laura; Tramonti, Tizana
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo
Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan

"...this stunning new disc captures Angela Gheorghiu in some big roles we would not expect her to take into her repertoire at present...it is refreshing...continue...

Vivaldi: Sacred Music / Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Philippe Jaroussky. Concerto et al. [6 CDs]

6 CD / Naïve / 2012-10-30

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Double Orchestra in F major, RV 584; Domine ad adjuvandum me festina (Psalm 69), for soprano, double chorus, 2 oboes, double strings & co; Ascende laeta, RV 635; Dixit D...
Performers: Bertagnolli, Gemma; Dantone, Ottavio; Ferreira, Mauro Lopes; Herrmann, Anke; Invernizzi, Roberta; Jaroussky, Philippe; Moi, Francesco; Montanari, Stefano; Piau, Sandrine; Piccinini, Monica; Polverell...
Conductors: Alessandrini, Rinaldo; Marchi, Alessandro de; Dantone, Ottavio; Spinosi, Jean-Christophe
Ensemble: Academia Montis Regalis; Accademia Bizantina; Concerto Italiano; Ensemble Matheus

For Christmas, a Naive boxed set that gathers the finest sacred works composed by Antonio Vivaldi and performed by some of the most recognized artists...continue...
Recording information: Abbaye de Saint-Michel, Thiérache (03/2009); Chiesa di S. Bernardino, Auditorium B. Manenti, Crema, (03/2009); Istituto di Musica Antica Academia Montis Regalis, Mond (03/2...continue...

Bellissimo Italian Opera

1 CD / Dynamic / 2011-12-13

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Demetrio e Polibio; Gaetano Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei; Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Giuseppe Verdi: Attila; Ernani
Performers: Alvarez, Marcelo [Tenor Vocal]; Berti, Marco; Carosi, Micaela [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Ciofi, Patrizia; Furlanetto, Ferruccio; Guelfi, Carlo; Neves, Susan; Polverelli, Laura; Prestia, Giacomo; Simoncin...
Conductors: Carraro, Massimiliano; Arrivabeni, Paolo; Acocella, Luciano; Palumbo, Renato; Renzetti, Donato; Allemandi, Antonello

Gaetano DonizettiI: Pia De' Tolomei / Paolo Arrivabeni / Teatro La Fenice di Venzia [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Dynamic / 2011-01-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei
Performers: Ciofi, Patrizia; Polverelli, Laura; Schmunck, Dario

Run Time: 137 min.
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Country of Origin: USA
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The World of the Castrati: The Voice of Angels

2 CD / Virgin Classics / 2010-11-09

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; George Frederick Handel: La Resurrezione; Giulio Cesare; Ariodante; Alcina; Serse; Admeto, re di Tessaglia; Fernando, re di Castiglia; Faramondo; Antonio Caldara: La Pass...
Performers: Baldi, Antonio; Bedini, Domenico; Blythe, Stephanie; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Cafarelli; Carestini, Giovanni; Cencic, Max Emanuel; Cicognani, Giuseppe; Ciofi, Patrizia; Daniels, David; Des...
Conductors: Haïm, Emmanuelle; Nelson, John; Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Hickox, Richard; Rousset, Christophe; Christie, William; Bolton, Ivor; Spinosi, Jean-Christophe; Curtis, Alan; Fasolis, Diego; Bicket, Har...
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Matheus; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris

The extraordinary adulation accorded to castrati during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is still today one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of...continue...

Mozart: Great Operatic Arias

1 CD / Naïve / 2010-07-27

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro; Così fan tutte, K 588; The Magic Flute; Le nozze di figaro; Zaïde; The Abduction from the Seraglio
Performers: Borst, Danielle; Claessens, Hubert; Donnelly, Patrick; Fournier, Sophie; Lecoq, Valerie; Marin-Degor, Sophie; Piau, Sandrine; Polverelli, Laura; Rivenq, Nicolas
Conductors: Alessandrini, Rinaldo; Malgoire, Jean-Claude; Von der Goltz, Gottfried

Mozart's operas are part of our cultural heritage. Everyone knows, more or less consciously, the most famous arias, which are even available as ringtones for...continue...

Vivaldi: Mottetti

1 CD / Naïve / 2010-06-29

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Longe mala umbrae terrores in G minor, RV 629; O qui coeli, RV 631; Vestro principi divino, solo motet for voice, strings & continuo in F major, RV 633; Canta in Prato, ride in monte...
Performers: Herrmann, Anke; Polverelli, Laura
Conductors: Marchi, Alessandro de
Ensemble: Academia Montis Regalis

Recording information: Istituto di Musica Antica Academia Montis Regalis, Mond (10/2001)....continue...

Massenet: Don Quichotte / Bennett/Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Prestia, Polverelli [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Bongiovanni / 2008-03-04

Works: Jules Massenet: Don Quichotte, opera in 5 acts
Performers: Cancelli, Guilio; Corbelli, Alessandro; Devellereau, Marie; Mancinelli, Tullia; Paccorini, Francesco; Polverelli, Laura; Prestia, Giacomo; Ruta, Cesare; Sorrentino, Gianluca
Conductors: Bennett, Dwight
Ensemble: Teatro Verdi di Trieste Chorus; Teatro Verdi di Trieste Orchestra

Run Time: 118 min.
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Country of Origin: USA
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Paventa Insano - Pacini, Mercadante / Parry, Cullagh, et al

1 CD / Opera Rara / 2006-05-09

Works: Giovanni Pacini: Il Corsaro, opera; Stella di Napoli, opera; Il contestabile di Chester, opera; Cesare in Egitto, opera; Allan Cameron, opera; Saverio Mercadante: Elena da Feltre, opera; I Normanni a...
Performers: Cullagh, Majella; Ford, Bruce [Tenor Vocal]; Massis, Annick; Opie, Alan [Baritone Vocals]; Polverelli, Laura; Tarver, Kenneth; Waddington, Henry; Wood, Roland
Conductors: Parry, David

Mercadante and Pacini were, in the first place, very close contemporaries, born only five months apart. Both composers, though they may have begun as imitators...continue...

Mozart: Figaro, Così, Giovanni / Malgoire, et al

8 CD / Naïve / 2006-01-17

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Don Giovanni; Così fan tutte, K 588
Performers: Borst, Danielle; Cantor, Philippe; Claessens, Hubert; Coz, Claudine Le; Donnelly, Patrick; Edwards, Simon [Tenor Vocal 1]; Fournier, Sophie; Gens, Véronique; Giardelli, Mirella; Lecoq, Valerie...
Conductors: Malgoire, Jean-Claude
Ensemble: La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy

Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei

2 CD / Dynamic / 2005-09-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Pia de' Tolomei, opera
Performers: Borowski, Daniel; Cigni, Carlo; Ciofi, Patrizia; Merli, Francesco; Polito, Clara; Polverelli, Laura; Schmunck, Dario; Schroeder, Andrew
Conductors: Arrivabeni, Paolo

Vivaldi: Concerti e cantate da camera III / Polverelli

1 CD / Naïve / 2005-07-19

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto, for recorder, oboe, 2 violins & continuo in C major, RV 87; Amor hai vinto, RV 683; Chamber Concerto ("La tempesta di mare"), for flute, oboe, violin, bassoon & con...
Performers: Mion, Andrea; Polverelli, Laura; Voltan, Aligi
Conductors: Tabacco, Giorgio
Ensemble: L'Astrée

This third volume of Vivaldi's complete chamber concertos offers three small masterpieces, notably an ultra-dramatic treatment of the famous theme of the 'storm at sea'....continue...

Rossini: Il Turco in Italia / Chailly, Bartoli, et al

2 CD / Decca Import / 1998-04-14

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il turco in Italia
Performers: Bartoli, Cecilia; Bullo, Massimiliano; Corbelli, Alessandro; De Candia, Roberto; Pertusi, Michele; Piccoli, Francesco; Polverelli, Laura; Vargas, Ramón [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

"...Chailly's tempos here are just enough faster than his earlier one to give most of the opera an effervescence that makes it sail by. Cecilia...continue...

Rossini: La Cenerentola / Rizzi, Larmore, Giménez, et al

2 CD / Teldec (USA) Import / 1995-04-04

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola
Performers: Corbelli, Alessandro; Fisher, John; Gimenez, RaLl [Tenor Vocals]; Larmore, Jennifer; Miles, Alastair [Bass Vocals]; Polverelli, Laura; Quilico, Gino; Scarabelli, Adelina
Conductors: Rizzi, Carlo
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra