Handel - Rinaldo
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Handel: Rinaldo
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Almirena), David Daniels (Rinaldo), Bernarda Fink (Goffredo), Gerald Finley (Argante), Luba Orgonasova (Armida), Daniel Taylor (Eustazio), Bejun Mehta (A Christian Magician)
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
most familiar and unfamiliar opera: familiar because, as his lavish first stage work for London, it has been much written about both by modern historians and by the composer's contemporaries;... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Handel Box Set
Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno), Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch...
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Handel/Leo: Rinaldo
Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Loriana Castellano (Almirena), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo), Francesca Ascioti (Argante), Ana Victória Pitts (A Christian Magician), Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Giorgio Sangati (director)
Sangati’s staging, mixing (vaguely) 18th-century costumes, Venice carnival masks and modernist camp, is unpretentious and uncluttered. The substitute arias, often short-breathed, cannot rival... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Handel/Leo: Rinaldo
Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Loriana Castellano (Almirena), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo), Francesca Ascioti (Argante), Ana Victória Pitts (A Christian Magician), Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Giorgio Sangati (director)
Sangati’s staging, mixing (vaguely) 18th-century costumes, Venice carnival masks and modernist camp, is unpretentious and uncluttered. The substitute arias, often short-breathed, cannot rival... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Handel: Rinaldo
Genaux, Kalna, Zazzo, Persson, Rutherford, Dumeaux & Visse
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
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Handel: Rinaldo
Paul Esswood (Goffredo), Ileana Cotrubas (Almirena), Carolyn Watkinson (Rinaldo), Charles Brett (Eustazio), Ulrik Cold (Argante), Jeanette Scovotti (Armida), Armand Arapian (A Christian Magician/A Herald), Marie-Francoise Jacquelin (A Siren)
Le Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude...
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Handel: Rinaldo
Carolyn Watkinson (Rinaldo), Ileana Cotrubas (Almirena), Jeanette Scovotti (Armida), Charles Brett (Eustazio), Paul Esswood (Goffredo), Ulrik Cold (Argante)
La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
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Handel/Leo: Rinaldo
Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo), Carmela Remigio (Armida), Loriana Castellano (Almirena), Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo), Francesca Ascioti (Argante), Ana Victória Pitts (A Christian Magician), Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Sangati’s staging, mixing (vaguely) 18th-century costumes, Venice carnival masks and modernist camp, is unpretentious and uncluttered. The substitute arias, often short-breathed, cannot rival... — More…
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Handel: Rinaldo
Kimberly Barber (Rinaldo), Laura Whalen (Almirena), Jennifer Enns Modolo (Eustazio), Barbara Hannigan (Armida), Marion Newman (Goffredo), Sean Watson (Argante)
The Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon
spirited and stylish — More…
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Handel: Rinaldo
Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch (Almirena), Brenda Rae (Armida), Luca Pisaroni (Argante) & William Towers (A Christian Magician)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robert Carsen (Stage Director) & Ottavio Dantone (Conductor)
Despite major reservations about the concept, it's impossible to deny the effectiveness of the staging...All the individual performances are well-acted; the Blu-ray edition providing added detail.... — More…