Antonio Pappano

...Piano Sonatas II - Marc-Andre Hamelin () 8 13 59 1 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Joshua Bell (/Sony Masterworks) 9 7 2 7 Verdi: Messa Da Requiem - Antonio Pappano (/BLG) 10 17 49 1 The Duets - Luciano Pavarotti (/Universal Classics Group)

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...Anja Harteros and bass Kwangchul Youn in the cast. The production, by Federico Tiezzi, is "mostly traditional", he says. Antonio Pappano, music director of London's Royal Opera House, where Domingo will appear in the opera next year,...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here L'Heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi at Covent Garden The conductor Antonio Pappano gives eloquent voice to Ravel and Puccini's entirely differing takes on human folly Hilary Finch A...

In this article: Covent Garden, Thomas Allen, Ruxandra Donose, L'heure espagnole, and Gianni Schicchi

...to the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Puccini's "Tosca." But equally loud were the cheers for the cast and for conductor Antonio Pappano, the Royal Opera's music director, who led the orchestra with unflagging momentum. Stemme,...

In this article: Nina Stemme, Brangaene, Ben Heppner, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, and New York

...of transcendental sunlight piercing this most gloomy of love stories. And if that standing ovation had been prolonged to acclaim Antonio Pappano and his orchestra, it would have been deserved. As he didn't quite manage in The Ring, Pappano...

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...his production team: there's something terribly lazy about the concept, even though it is immaculately staged and realised. Antonio Pappano's warmly lyrical and firmly shaped conducting failed to build up a head of steam -­ the third act...

In this article: Tristan und Isolde, Nina Stemme, Anne Evans, Kirsten Flagstad, and Ben Heppner

...the Requiem that comes with the official branding of the Catholic Church. Listen and be converted It says a great deal that Antonio Pappano's recording of Verdi's Requiem was made in Rome. And that isn't just because it gave the music...

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...(mezzo-soprano), Rolando Villazon (tenor), Rene Pape (bass), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, cond Antonio Pappano. For many years, the recording of Verdi's Requiem against which all others are measured has been...

In this article: Anja Harteros, Carlo Maria Giulini, Dies Irae, Rolando Villazon, and Covent Garden

...here Verdi: Requiem - Soloists, LSO and LSO Chorus, cond Colin Davis Last January, I heard Verdi Requiems in Rome (conducted by Antonio Pappano) and at the Barbican (Davis), both of which were recorded live. EMI releases Pappano's...

In this article: Dies Irae, EMI, and Rome

...for tunelessness and density, but with the Royal Opera orchestra meticulously rehearsed and magnificently inspired under Antonio Pappano, it sounds luminous, lucid, luscious, even lyrical - like Mahler, 30 years on, in a more angst-ridden...

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