Nelly Miricioiu News
British opera soprano
- soprano
- United Kingdom, Romania
- opera singer, musician
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2021-03-11 15:00:24
No sleep, no rest
Following last week’s Golden Cockerel, Trove Thursday offers another classic Russian opera not in Russian: Borodin’s Fürst Igor with Nelly Miricioiu, Marjana Lipovsek, Bodo Brinkmann, Evgeny Nesterenko, Robert Schunk and Sergei Koptchak conducted by Mark Ermler.
2020-04-26 09:28:53
A Life on Line: Gluck's Alceste, Cilea's Adriana, Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten (not to mention the young man without clothes)
[…] Naples in the 1980s with soprano Maria Chiara in the title role, at a time when you never ever saw it in London. There were rumours that ENO sent representatives to the production, but it was Opera Holland Park which gave us the first recent London performances (I remember one production with a thrilling account of the Princess de Boullion from Rosalind Plowright), though the best account of the title role, for me, remains Nelly Miricioiu with Chelsea Opera Group in 2009 [see the review on Musical Criticism, and my review on Music & Vision] where she gave far more bite to the vocal line than most lyric sopranos.On Sunday we caught a 2019 performance of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur from the Metropolitan Opera in the David McVicar production which debuted at Covent Garden in 2009. Anna Netrebko was a very luxurious (if somewhat placit) Adriana, with Piotr Beczala as an […]
2020-03-08 09:15:00
Puccini - Tosca -Nelly Miricioiu - Naxos
Giacomo Puccini (1858 -1924) Nelly Miricioiu, Giorgio Lamberti, Silvano Carroli, Andrea Piccini Slovak Philharmonic Chorus Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava dir: Alexander Rahbari Naxos (1990) 8.66001-2 DDD stereo 2 Cds [flac & cue, inlays, booklet & disc scans] Review: "Where the most popular operas are concerned, the problem of judicious comparative reviewing is troublesome enough already. In this area there is generally a 'classic' recording, though not everyone will agree on which it is. For many, certainly for me, the classic Tosca is de Sabata's 1953 recording (EMI), with Callas, di Stefano and Gobbi. Others prefer the later Callas recording with Pretre (also EMI) for its ampler stereo sound, or the superbly detailed and dramatic Karajan version on Decca (with Leontyne Price, di Stefano and Giuseppe Taddei), or, for a vocally flawless account of the title-role and conducting as […]
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