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Arminio


Reviews (3)


MusicWeb international

2018 October

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Roy Westbrook

2018 October

"I found the music engaging, better than some earlier critics claimed, and at times remarkable for a work written in about a month. It is not Alcina or Giulio Cesare, but Handel - occasionally here on autopilot - is rarely dull or merely formulaic for very long ... But this production is generally intelligent enough to treat the characters seriously, avoid unintentional humour, and hold one's sympathy throughout. It is well-filmed ... Otherwise this is as far as I am aware the only filmed Arminio available, but even so it is hard to imagine that a better one will come along any time soon".


The gramophone

2018 July

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Dave Vickers

2018 July

"Lauren Snouffer is on sensational vocal form as Arminio's wife Tusnelda, and Aleksandra Kubas-Kurk has a rounded security of tone as the young hero Sigismondo ... Gaia Petrone sings her arias with ripe precision ... There are only a couple of miniscule cuts to recitatives, and the visceral theatricality of the performance masks some clumsy tropes in the staging".


Fono Forum

2018 August

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Manuel Brug

2018 August

"George Petrou und seine Armonia Atenea setzen das mit präziser Lockerheit entspannt ausbalancierten Tempi um. Juan Sancho gibt mit konzentrierter Energie und einem Quäntchen Selbstironie den Vario. Pavel Kudinov ist als Segeste ein verlässlicher Verräter, Owen Willetts singt mit geläufiger Altus-Gurgel seinen Hauptmann Tullio. Doch vor allem das Protagonisten quartett ist ein sehr besonderes. Der Segeste-Sohn Sigismondo ist bei Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk in den besten Händen ... Dominanter Herr der Opernlage ist Max Emanuel Cencic in der Titelrolle ... zickig, schnippisch, aber stets mit grosser Klangallüre und mit anrührenden Pianissimo-Nuancen glänzend".