Antonio Pappano reviews
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (LSO/Pappano)
London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (LSO Live)
Tudor Queens (Donizetti)
Diana Damrau (soprano), et al; Santa Cecilia Choir & Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (Erato)
Beethoven: Songs and Folksongs
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Vilde Frang (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) (Warner Classics)
Verdi: Otello
Jonas Kaufmann, et al; Orchestra e Coro dell'Academia Nationale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano (Sony Classical)
Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1-3; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for Solo Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble
Nadine Sierra, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Dame Josephine Barstow, Alessandro Carbonare, Beatrice Rana; Coro e Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano (Warner)
Verdi: Otello
Jonas Kaufmann, Marco Vratogna, Maria Agresta; Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Antonio Pappano; dir. Keith Warner (
Sony; DVD & Blu-ray)
Wagner: Die Walküre (ROH/Pappano)
Nina Stemme, John Lundgren, et al; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden/Antonio Pappano (Opus Arte / DVD)
An iconic staging of Wagner’s Die Walküre
The cast in this 2018 staging would have been the envy of every world class opera company. The result is just short of perfection
Requiem: The Pity of War
Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics)
Puccini: La bohème
Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Simona Mihai et al; Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Antonio Pappano; dir. Richard Jones (Opus Arte, DVD)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2; plus ‘Antonio Pappano Plays & Explains Sergei Rachmaninoff’
Staatskapelle Dresden/Antonio Pappano (EuroArt, DVD)
Watch Antonio Pappano conduct Bellini's Norma
First staged on 12 September 2016, the Royal Opera’s new Normawas the work of Spanish director Alex Ollé, one of the artistic co-directors of the theatre group La Fura dels Baus. In a programme note included with this DVD/Blu-ray release he asks the rhetorical questions, ‘Some will see [Norma] as a traitor to her country and her religion, but what is she really guilty of having done? Falling in love?
Saint-Saëns's Symphony No. 3 and Carnival of the Animals conducted by Antonio Pappano
There’s a wealth of expression to be drawn out of every note in the slow opening of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony – at least as shaped by Sir Antonio Pappano, live in concert with his non-operatic orchestra in Rome.