Francesco Meli

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the personal rather than the political in this...

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Cast: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade) was Verdi’s fourth opera and received its first performance at La Scala,...

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Cast: Francesco Meli

Part of Tutto Verdi series - Simon Boccanegra (2010) Parma. Revised version (1881). 'Simon Boccanegra' is an opera with a prologue and three acts by...

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Cast: Leo Nucci

Part of Tutto Verdi series - Un ballo in maschera (2011) Parma. Based on a Scribe libretto and begun as 'Gustavo III' set in Sweden, it became 'Una...

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Cast: Francesco Meli

The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy but still hopes that he may be alive. When he...

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Cast: Daniele Gatti

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Cast: Francesco Meli

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Cast: Anna Netrebko

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera....

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Cast: Anna Goryachova

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Cast: Anna Netrebko

In Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his family and his duty to a corrupt city. Jacopo...

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Cast: Plácido Domingo

Two queens on one island. A recipe for disaster. Especially as both have a legitimate claim to the other's throne. They are, after all, related... So...

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Cast: Anna Caterina Antonacci

Andrea De Rosa's production of Guiseppe Verdi's Liguria-set masterpiece about the eponymous 14th century Doge of Genoa. Ludovic Tezier is the Doge,...

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Cast: Ludovic Tézier

"Giovanna d'Arco; ossia, la pulzella d'Orléans" is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian...

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Cast: Anna Netrebko

Two fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another.

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Cast: Andy Luotto

As Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has already given it to a passionate troubadour whose...

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Cast: Ludovic Tézier

Recorded live from the Teatro Regio di Parma, 8 October 2011

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Cast: Sonia Ganassi

The production itself is quite beautiful: recorded in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice in November 2007, it highlights the cathedral's splendor,...

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Cast: Lorin Maazel

The recording took place in Teatro Farnese di Parma, a kind of "mini-Verona" stage, but under roof. Probably good acoustics. But that doesn't rescue...

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Cast: Francesco Meli

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Cast: Anna Netrebko

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Cast: Femi Benussi

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Cast: Francesco Meli

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Cast: Francesco Meli

n his 'new life' as a baritone, Placido Domingo has triumphed in the role of Francesco Foscari in Los Angeles, London and Vienna. Now he takes to the...

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Cast: Plácido Domingo

Ernani is a love story about a young woman, Elvira, caught between three men: her lover, the nobleman-turned-outlaw Ernani; her guardian, the rich,...

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Cast: Francesco Meli

Love and duty collide and nations clash in Verdi's political drama, starring Elena Stikhina and Angel Blue and conducted by Antonio Pappano and Mark...

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Cast: Elena Stikhina

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Cast: Anna Netrebko

Premiere of the 23/24 season at the Teatro La Scala of Milan, broadcast live. The story of Verdi's opera is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos,...

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Cast: Francesco Meli

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Cast: Michele Pertusi