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		<title>Arrieta: La conquista di Granata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review
Mariola Cantarero (Zulema), Mariá José Suárez (Almeraya), Ana Ibarra (Isabel), José Bros (Gonzalo), David Rubiera (Boabdil), Ángel Ódena (Lara), Alastair Miles (Muley-Hassem), David Menéndez (Alamar)
 r. live July 2006 Teatro Real, Madrid
 Coro y Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid c. Jesús López Cobos
Dynamic CDS 618/1-2 (2 discs 133 minutes)

It is always instructive to find a work that lies at a tangent to a central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giordano &amp; Mascagni: two operas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ CD review
Marcella Giordano
Serena Daolio (Marcella), Natalizia Carone (Clara), Angelica Girardi (Raimonda), Mara D’Antini (Eliana), Maria Rosa Rondinelli (Lea), Danilo Formaggio (Giorgio), Marcello Rosiello (Vernier), Pierluigi Dilengite (Drasco), Giovanni Coletta (Barthélemy), Graziano De Pace (Flament) )
 Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, c. Manlio Benzi
 Dynamic CDS 573 (64 minutes)



Amica  Mascagni
Anna Malavasi (Amica), Francesca De Giorgi (Magdelone), David Sotgiu (Giorgio), Pierluigi Dilengite (Rinaldo), Marcello Rosiello (MaÎtre Camoine)
 Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Bratislava Chamber Choir c. Manlio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maconchy &#8211; two operas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review 
The Sofa
 Sarah Tynan (Monique), Alinka Kozári (Lucille), Anna Leese (Laura), Josephine Thorpe (Dominic’s Grandmother), Patricia Orr (Yolande), Nicholas Sharratt (Prince Dominic), Patrick Ashcroft (A Suitor), George von Bergen (Edward)
 The Departure
 Louise Poole (Julia), Håkan Vramsmo (Mark)
 Chorus and Ensemble of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells c. Dominic Wheeler
Chandos CHAN 10508 (70 minutes)

These brief one-acters, revived for the centenary of Maconchy’s birth by Independent Opera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renee Fleming &#8211; Verismo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review 
Renée Fleming with
Saito Kaoru, Emma Latis, Lucia Mencaroni, Barbara Vignudelli (soprano), Annalisa Dessi (mezzo soprano), Paolo Cautoruccio, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Marco Calabrese, Carlos Gomez (baritone), Gilles Armani (bass)
 Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Verdi c. Marco Armiliato
 Arias from La Bohème (Leoncavallo and Puccini), Conchita, Fedora, Gloria, Iris, Lodoletta, Manon Lescaut, La rondine, Siberia, Suor Angelica, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaliapin, the Enchanter</title>
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A Film by Elisabeth Kapnist
 
NVC Arts 50 51865 211525 (58 minutes)

One might have thought that Chaliapin would be a fascinating subject for a film biography, as there is much source material to choose from; his memoirs, dictated to his close friend Maxim Gorky, an extensive discography, some choice film footage and many colourful reminiscences from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolf-Ferrari: La vedova scaltra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review
Anne-Lise Sollied (Rosaura), Elena Rossi (Marionette), Mark Milhofer (Il Conte di Bosco Nero), Emanuele D’Aguanno (Monsieur Le Bleau), Luca Favaron (Folletto), Maurizio Muraro (Milord Runebif), Antonio Casagrande (Un servo di Don Alvaro), Riccardo Zanellato (Don Alvaro di Castiglia), Alex Esposito (Arlecchino), Claudio Zancopè (Birif)
 
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice, Venice c. Karl Martin
Naxos 8.660225-6 (2 discs 142 minutes)

This is the fourth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review
Elena Ustinova (The Queen of Shemaka), Olga Shalaeva (The Golden Cockerel), Raisa Kotova (Amelfa), Boris Tarkhov (Astrologer), Viacheslav Voinarovsky (Tsarevitch Guidon), Alexei Mochalov (General Polkan), Vladimir Svistov (Tsarevitch Afron), Yevgeny Nesterenko (Tsar Dodon)
 All-Union Radio and Television Academic Grand Choir, Academic Symphony Orchestra of Moscow State Philharmonic c. Dmitri Kitaenko
Melodiya MEL CD 10 01398 (2 discs 123 minutes)

For such a well-known piece, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2 DVD reviews &#8211; METROPOLITAN OPERA (1984) and MACERATA FESTIVAL (2004)
Renata Scotto (Francesca), Nicole Lorange (Samaritana), Natalia Rom (Biancofiore), Gail Robinson  (Garsenda), Isola Jones (Smaragdi), Gail Dubinbaum (Altichiara), Claudia Catania (Adonella), Placido Domingo (Paolo), William Lewis (Malatestino), Cornell Macneil (Gianciotto), Richard Fredricks (Ostasio), Anthony Laciura (Ser Toldo Berardengo), Brian Schexnayder (Simonetto), John Darrencamp (Berlingerio)
 Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet c. James Levine p. Piero Faggioni d. Ezio Frigerio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juliangrant.net/uncategorized/zandonai-francesca-da-rimini/</link>
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		<title>Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DVD review
Renée Fleming (Tatiana), Elena Zaremba (Olga), Svetlana Volkova  (Madame Larin), Larisa Shevchenko (Filippyevna), Ramón Vargas (Lenski), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Triquet), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Eugene Onegin), Sergei Alexashkin (Prince Gremin), Richard Bernstein (Zaretsky)
 Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet c. Valery Gergiev p. Robert Carsen d. Michael Levine video director Brian Large
DECCA 074 3248 (2 Discs &#8211; 156 minutes)

This 2007 revival of Robert Carsen’s ten-year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shostakovich: Cherry Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DVD review
Olga Zabotkina (Lidochka), Marina Khotuntseva (Masha), Svetlana Zhivankova (Lyusya), Marina Polbentseva (Vava), Vladimir Vasilyev (Boris), Grigori Bortnikov (Sasha), Vladimir Zemlyanikin (Sergey), Vasili Merkuryev Drebednev)
 Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra c.Nikolai Rabinovich, d. Gerbert Rappaport,
A Lenfilm Production. Decca 1475 (87 mins)
 

 
This is the first western release of the 1963 Soviet film version of Shostakovich’s housing estate operetta Moscow Cheryomushki (‘Cherry Town’, as ubiquitous a misnomer [...]]]></description>
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