Mitridate, re di Ponto

"Recommended: Minkowski mines this surprisingly rich score for the full depths of passion and drama that is contained within its music ... On the whole he whips up the drama relatively fast tempi ... Erato has assembled a top-notch cast of nearly all French singers for this Italianized version of a French tragedy. The entire ensemble , Michael Spyres included, deliver their music with a clear stylistic link to the great tragedies lyriques of Lully and Rameau ... This is probably the most successful recording of Mozart's opera we will ever see on disc; there is no doubt in my mind that it is the most exciting by a long stretch".

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"En anden værdifuld opgravning fra arkiverne er operaen Mitridate dirigeret af Roger Norrington i 1997 ... Her høres yngre sangere, som nu er forrest fremme, Bruce Ford som Mitridate, Christiana Oelze og Vesselina Kasarova, som i år var fantastisk som Sesto i Titus".

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"Vurdering: Recording of the month" - "A glorious performance of Mozart's youthful opera seria".

"Operaaen har måske ikke 'Figaros' glathed eller 'Don Giovannis' dramatik, men selv den purunge Mozart er altid værd at lytte til ... Indspilningen fandt sted under lockdown, og da det er oplagt at bruge gode sangere til en showpiece-opera som denne, benyttede pladeselskabet nedlukningen af operahuse rundt om i verdenen til at samle en række stjernesangere. Denne udgivelse byder derfor bl.a. på navne som Elsa Dreisig, Michael Spyres og Sabine Devieilhe".

"Right from the powerful opening to the Overture, you know that you are in good hands. Les Musiciens du Louvre play nobly for their conductor ... Sabine Devieilhe is well suited to the part of Ismene ... Elsa Dreisig is magnificent as Sifare ... [Spyres's] command of the role is absolute ... This is a fine account".