Roberto Devereux — HDVDARTS

Donizetti Roberto Devereux opera to libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. Directed 2016 by Alfonso Antoniozzi at the Teatro Carlo Felice. Stars Mariella Devia (Elisabetta, Queen of England), Sonia Ganassi (Sara, Duchess of Nottingham), Stefan Pop (Roberto Devereux), Mansoo Kim (Lord Duke of Nottingham), Alessandro Fantoni (Sir Gualtiero [Walter] Raleigh), Matteo Armanino (a page), and Loris Purpura (a servant of Nottingham). Francesco Lanzillotta conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Carlo Felice (Chorus Master Pablo Assante). Set design by Monica Manganelli; lighting design by Luciano Novelli; costume design by Gianluca Falaschi. Directed for TV by Matteo Ricchetti. Sung in Italian. Released 2016, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

Richard Lawrence, writing in the March 2017 Gramophone at pages 87-88 roundly praises this production, and who knows more about Donizetti than the fine folks at Dynamic? Here's a clip from Dynamic:

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.