1(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA - PART I - BBC (Monteverdi)

1(5) BEGINNINGS - Antonio Pappano - OPERA ITALIA- BBC - PART I Monteverdi Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, world-renowned conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors. In the first programme, Pappano takes a whistle-stop tour of the beginnings of opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. He also looks at the works of two non-Italian composers, Handel and Mozart, both of whom were pivotal in the development of the art form. Along the way he enlists the help of some of the world's greatest singers - Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Danielle de Niese, Sarah Connolly and Pietro Spagnoli.
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Pappano Straordinario - 16 settembre 2011

16 settembre 2011 ore 20.30 Auditorium Parco della Musica Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Antonio Pappano direttore Denis Matsuev pianoforte Puccini Preludio Sinfonico Rachmaninoff Concerto per pianoforte n. 2 Čajkovskij Sinfonia n. 6 "Patetica"
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Antonio Pappano presents Rossini's William Tell

AVAILABLE TO ORDER HERE: links.emi.com Find out more about the William Tell Prom here: links.emi.com British conductor Antonio Pappano, who is Music Director of the Royal Opera House, scooped the prestigious Male Artist of the Year award at the 2011 Classic Brit Awards for his recent recording of Rossini's Stabat Mater, recorded with his Roman orchestra and choir, the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with star soloists Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo. This year also saw Antonio Pappano pick up a prestigious RPS Award for Creative Communication awarded for his BBC series Opera Italia. His next recording, the full version of Rossini's opera William Tell will be released in July 2011 to coincide with his performance of the same work at this year's BBC Proms.
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BORIS BEREZOVSKY & ANTONIO PAPPANO Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4 1st mov.

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.4 Op.40 -I. Allegro vivace ANTONIO PAPPANO (con) BORIS BEREZOVSKY / Борис Березовский (pf) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Proms49, 23 August 2008 Royal Albert Hall, London
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BORIS BEREZOVSKY & ANTONIO PAPPANO Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4 2nd mov.

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.4 Op.40 -II. Largo ANTONIO PAPPANO (con) BORIS BEREZOVSKY / Борис Березовский (pf) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Proms49, 23 August 2008 Royal Albert Hall, London
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Interview with Antonio Pappano on "Stabat Mater" (Anna Netrebko / Maria Pizzolato)

www.deutschegrammophon.com Watch conductor Antonio Pappano speak about the upcoming album "Stabat Mater" with Anna Netrebko which reveals her admiration for Pergolesi and her love for his Stabat Mater. The music was recorded at Netrebko's July 2010 Baden-Baden concert where she was joined by the beautifully schooled tones of Marianna Pizzolato's mezzo voice and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano. Besides "Stabat mater", one of classical music's most popular works, the album includes a secular cantatas for soprano "Nel chiuso centro" and "Questo è il piano, also a secular cantata for alto and strings. Both cantatas add a special touch to this album being released in Spring 2011. For more information, please follow these links: www.deutschegrammophon.com (soon to come) www.deutschegrammophon.com www.deutschegrammophon.com
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Antonio Pappano dirige Il Titano - 12/14/15 marzo 2011

Pappano dirige il Titano Mahler: Prima Sinfonia Prosegue il ciclo delle Sinfonie di Mahler con l'esecuzione della Prima, nota come "Il Titano". Completano il programma il Primo Concerto per pianoforte di Liszt - solista Boris Berezovsky - e un brano di rara esecuzione: la Sinfonia dell'Aida di Verdi. www.santacecilia.it
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ANTONIO PAPPANO CONDUCTS ROSSINI: STABAT MATER

ORDER YOUR COPY HERE: links.emi.com ... Award-winning conductor Antonio Pappano and his acclaimed Roman orchestra the Accademia di Santa Cecilia release Rossini's Stabat Mater. The recording includes star soloists Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Ildebrando d'Arcangelo. Although Rossini focused heavily on opera, he was still able to find some time to undertake commissions of a non-operatic nature. Supreme among these was to be the Stabat Mater. "I would say that the Stabat Mater - the picture of the Virgin Mary standing below the crucifix watching her son die and this beautiful set of prayers or scene setting is sublimely put to music by Rossini." says Maestro Pappano. Pappano's recent releases with the Roman orchestra includes the award-wining and critically-acclaimed Verdi Requiem, Respighi's 'Roman Trilogy', the Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4-6 and Puccini's opera 'Madama Butterfly' with Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann which won Gheorghiu the Female Artist of the Year honour at this year's Classical Brit Awards. Pappano himself won the Critics' Choice award for his recording of the Verdi Requiem.
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Pappano's Essential Tosca

Find out more about Pappano's Essential Tosca -- presented by Antonio Pappano this Christmas: www.roh.org.uk and www.bbc.co.uk
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Antonio Pappano win the Male Artist of the Year at the Classic Brit Awards 2011

Conductor Antonio Pappano has won the Male Artist of the Year Award at the Classic BRITs 2011, beating Rolando Villazón and Sir Charles Mackerras. Pappano receives the award for two albums released within the space of six months: Verismo Arias on Decca Records and Rossini: Stabat Mater on EMI Classics. Collecting his gong from journalist and presenter Angela Rippon at the star-studded awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, Pappano thanked his fans and his family. It's been an incredibly busy year for Pappano, in his role as Music Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he's the youngest conductor ever appointed, and also as Music Director of the Orchestra of the Academy of St Cecilia. Aside from releasing his new albums, he has recently conducted the complete Ring Cycle and new opera productions including Tristan and Isolde and the widely acclaimed Anna Nicole. Pappano returns to the Classic BRIT Awards for the second year running, having won Critics' Award in 2010.
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2(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA - PART I - BBC (Monteverdi, Handel)

2(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA- BBC - PART I Monteverdi, Handel Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, world-renowned conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors. In the first programme, Pappano takes a whistle-stop tour of the beginnings of opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. He also looks at the works of two non-Italian composers, Handel and Mozart, both of whom were pivotal in the development of the art form. Along the way he enlists the help of some of the world's greatest singers - Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Danielle de Niese, Sarah Connolly and Pietro Spagnoli.
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BORIS BEREZOVSKY & ANTONIO PAPPANO Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4 3rd mov.

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.4 Op.40 -III. Allegro vivace ANTONIO PAPPANO (con) BORIS BEREZOVSKY / Борис Березовский (pf) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Proms49, 23 August 2008 Royal Albert Hall, London
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ANTONIO PAPPANO - MESSAGE FOR PLÁCIDO DOMINGO

More information at: www.vivadomingo.com ... Maestro Antonio Pappano music director of the Royal Opera House and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , colleague and dear friend, also joins in our celebrations of Plácido Domingo's 70th birthday and 50 years on stage. This is his very special message. VISIT www.vivadomingo.com for more about Placido Domingo! Celebrating Placido Domingo's 70th Birthday and 50 years on Stage! Plácido Domingo has appeared in 130 different roles, more than any other tenor in the annals of music, in a repertoire spanning the centuries from Mozart to Verdi, Berlioz to Puccini, and Wagner to Ginastera. He has sung at every important opera house in the world and made well over 100 acclaimed recordings, most of which are full-length operas, often recording the same role more than once. He has been seen in more than 50 opera videos and three feature opera films.
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3(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA - PART I - BBC (Mozart)

3(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA- BBC - PART I (Mozart) Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, world-renowned conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors. In the first programme, Pappano takes a whistle-stop tour of the beginnings of opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. He also looks at the works of two non-Italian composers, Handel and Mozart, both of whom were pivotal in the development of the art form. Along the way he enlists the help of some of the world's greatest singers - Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Danielle de Niese, Sarah Connolly and Pietro Spagnoli.
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5(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA - PART I - BBC (Rossini)

5(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA- BBC - PART I (Rossini) Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, world-renowned conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors. In the first programme, Pappano takes a whistle-stop tour of the beginnings of opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. He also looks at the works of two non-Italian composers, Handel and Mozart, both of whom were pivotal in the development of the art form. Along the way he enlists the help of some of the world's greatest singers - Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Danielle de Niese, Sarah Connolly and Pietro Spagnoli.
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4(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA - PART I - BBC (Rossini)

4(5) Antonio Pappano - BEGINNINGS - OPERA ITALIA- BBC - PART I Rossini Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, world-renowned conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors. In the first programme, Pappano takes a whistle-stop tour of the beginnings of opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. He also looks at the works of two non-Italian composers, Handel and Mozart, both of whom were pivotal in the development of the art form. Along the way he enlists the help of some of the world's greatest singers - Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Danielle de Niese, Sarah Connolly and Pietro Spagnoli.
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Antonio Pappano presents Rossini's William Tell

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER HERE: links.emi.com Find out more about the William Tell Prom here: links.emi.com British conductor Antonio Pappano, who is Music Director of the Royal Opera House, scooped the prestigious Male Artist of the Year award at the 2011 Classic Brit Awards for his recent recording of Rossini's Stabat Mater, recorded with his Roman orchestra and choir, the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with star soloists Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo. This week also saw Antonio Pappano pick up a prestigious RPS Award for Creative Communication awarded for his BBC series Opera Italia. His next recording, the full version of Rossini's opera William Tell will be released in July 2011 to coincide with his performance of the same work at this year's BBC Proms.
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[ Part 6 ] Episode 2: Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano

Playlist: www.youtube.com Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano Episode 2: Viva Verdi The second episode focuses on Verdi, whose operas are central to Pappano's conducting repertoire and the backbone of the international opera scene. It shows how Verdi's music was influenced by composers such as Bellini and particularly Donizetti, whose gothic masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor is explored with the help of soprano Diana Damrau. Pappano looks at six of Verdi's most famous works - Nabucco, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Otello, Falstaff and La Traviata, the last of which Pappano rehearses and conducts at the Royal Opera House with the starry cast of Renee Fleming, Joseph Calleja and Thomas Hampson. Pappano travels to Le Roncole in northern Italy where Verdi was born amidst a turbulent political environment, and politics became a major influence on Verdi's operas in later life. He conducts Va Pensiero from Nabucco at a vast open-air concert in Naples, a chorus which was to become a powerful symbol of political unity for the Italian people.
Antonio Pappano - Dal Nuovo Mondo - 26/27/28 novembre 2011

Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Antonio Pappano direttore Yuja Wang pianoforte Dukas ..... L'apprendista stregone Bartók ..... Concerto per pianoforte n. 2 Dvorák ..... Sinfonia n. 9 "Dal nuovo mondo"
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Rolando Villazon - Antonio Pappano- Werther ROH 5 to 21 may 2011

Star tenor Rolando Villazón returns to The Royal Opera as the epitome of the despairing Romantic poet, Werther. Goethe's original novel was a European sensation in its day, and Massenet's opera brings out all the intensity of its portrayal of the unrequited love and dashed hopes -- atmospheric, tuneful and poignant. Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera, conducted this stylish production by director Benoît Jacquot when it was new in 2004. He conducts again for this first revival, and with a wonderful cast that includes two audience favourites, Sophie Koch and Eri Nakamura. The lyrical French style that is so characteristic of Massenet's music has increasingly featured at the Royal Opera House, and the opportunity to enjoy this mature work of the composer is a complement to last Season's Manon and this Season's Cendrillon. For all lovers of French opera, fine singing, melodious music and emotionally arresting drama, Werther is an ideal choice.
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[ Part 7 ] Episode 2: Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano

Playlist: www.youtube.com Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano Episode 2: Viva Verdi The second episode focuses on Verdi, whose operas are central to Pappano's conducting repertoire and the backbone of the international opera scene. It shows how Verdi's music was influenced by composers such as Bellini and particularly Donizetti, whose gothic masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor is explored with the help of soprano Diana Damrau. Pappano looks at six of Verdi's most famous works - Nabucco, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Otello, Falstaff and La Traviata, the last of which Pappano rehearses and conducts at the Royal Opera House with the starry cast of Renee Fleming, Joseph Calleja and Thomas Hampson. Pappano travels to Le Roncole in northern Italy where Verdi was born amidst a turbulent political environment, and politics became a major influence on Verdi's operas in later life. He conducts Va Pensiero from Nabucco at a vast open-air concert in Naples, a chorus which was to become a powerful symbol of political unity for the Italian people.
Antonio Pappano introduces Rossini's Stabat Mater

ORDER YOUR COPY HERE: links.emi.com ... Antonio Pappano introduces Rossini's Stabat Mater and a clip of the 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa" taken from the recording sessions in Rome. Award-winning conductor Antonio Pappano and his acclaimed Roman orchestra the Accademia di Santa Cecilia release Rossini's Stabat Mater. The recording includes star soloists Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Ildebrando d'Arcangelo. Although Rossini focused heavily on opera, he was still able to find some time to undertake commissions of a non-operatic nature. Supreme among these was to be the Stabat Mater. "I would say that the Stabat Mater - the picture of the Virgin Mary standing below the crucifix watching her son die and this beautiful set of prayers or scene setting is sublimely put to music by Rossini." says Maestro Pappano. Pappano's recent releases with the Roman orchestra includes the award-wining and critically-acclaimed Verdi Requiem, Respighi's 'Roman Trilogy', the Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4-6 and Puccini's opera 'Madama Butterfly' with Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann which won Gheorghiu the Female Artist of the Year honour at this year's Classical Brit Awards. Pappano himself won the Critics' Choice award for his recording of the Verdi Requiem.
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Antonio Pappano, Rolando Villazon

Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Anja Harteros, Sonia Ganassim Rolando Villazon, Rene Pape / Orchestra e Coro dellAccademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano Following the release of his critically acclaimed recording of Madama Butterfly, Music Director Antonio Pappano returned to the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in January 2009 for performances of Verdis spectacular Requiem with stellar soloists Anja Harteros, Sonia Ganassi, Rolando Villazón and René Pape. EMI Classics microphones were at hand to record the concerts. In the words of Antonio Pappano, himself born to Italian parents, this is a Requiem written by an Italian and I think Italians relationship to religion is explosive, full of temperament, full of fear. . And the spectre of being punished, of sins it sounds like an opera Im describing. I love doing this piece here in Rome with an Italian chorus and an Italian orchestra, and they have an innate sense of what this music is about, how to bring it to life. They really know what the words mean. They have lived what it is to be religious or spiritual in Italy. Interviewed at the time of the performances, Rolando Villazón discusses the same subject: Many say that this is the best opera Verdi ever wrote. Clearly its not but the theatricality of the piece requires something more than what you would use for an oratorio Its a very delicate balance singers have to have. You have to respect the style of this church piece, and at the same time <b>...</b>
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[ Part 8 ] Episode 2: Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano

Playlist: www.youtube.com Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano Episode 2: Viva Verdi The second episode focuses on Verdi, whose operas are central to Pappano's conducting repertoire and the backbone of the international opera scene. It shows how Verdi's music was influenced by composers such as Bellini and particularly Donizetti, whose gothic masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor is explored with the help of soprano Diana Damrau. Pappano looks at six of Verdi's most famous works - Nabucco, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Otello, Falstaff and La Traviata, the last of which Pappano rehearses and conducts at the Royal Opera House with the starry cast of Renee Fleming, Joseph Calleja and Thomas Hampson. Pappano travels to Le Roncole in northern Italy where Verdi was born amidst a turbulent political environment, and politics became a major influence on Verdi's operas in later life. He conducts Va Pensiero from Nabucco at a vast open-air concert in Naples, a chorus which was to become a powerful symbol of political unity for the Italian people.
Götterdämmerung - funeral march - pappano

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2007 Conductor: Antonio Pappano Production: Keith Warner. Cast: John Treleaven (Siegfried), Lisa Gasteen (Brünnhilde), Kurt Rydl (Hagen), Peter Coleman-Wright (Gunther), Emily Magee (Gutrune), Mihoko Fujimura (Waltraute), Peter Sidhorn (Alberich)
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[ Part 5 ] Episode 1: Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano

Playlist: www.youtube.com Opera Italia presented by Antonio Pappano Episode 1: Beginnings In the first programme, Pappano takes a whistle-stop tour of the beginnings of opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. He also looks at the works of two non-Italian composers, Handel and Mozart, both of whom were pivotal in the development of the art form. Along the way he enlists the help of some of the world's greatest singers - Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Danielle de Niese, Sarah Connolly and Pietro Spagnoli.
Leif Ove Andsnes, Antonio Pappano - Rachmaninov Piano Concertos 1 & 2

Leif Ove Andsnes - Rachmaninov Piano Concertos 1 & 2 with Antonio Pappano and the Berliner Philharmoniker ________________________________________ More information: www.andsnesrachmaninov.com ________________________________________ Buy from Amazon (USA) www.amazon.com ________________________________________ Buy from Amazon (UK): astore.amazon.co.uk ________________________________________ Buy from Amazon (FR): www.amazon.fr ________________________________________ Buy from Amazon (DE): www.amazon.de ________________________________________ www.emiclassics.com http www.emiclassics.de
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Ian Bostridge - Wolf Lieder with Antonio Pappano

Ian Bostridges love for Lieder is beyond doubt and being one of the leading interpreters in the field makes a Hugo Wolf album a natural selection for him. Hugo Wolf introduced into the Lied the harmonic innovations and declamatory principles of Wagner operas. More than any other composer he respected the texts and hardly ever wrote a strophic song: every nuance and inflexion of their speech-melody, generally finds its counterpart in the vocal line of his songs, while the accompaniments are usually built up out of one or two phrases which are expanded and developed on symphonic principles. The characterization of each song demands the utmost artistry from both performers. It is difficult to imagine a better pairing for an album of this repertoire than Ian Bostridge - famed for his analytical grasp - and conductor Antonio Pappano - who collaborates with Ian on this recording as a pianist for the first time. Both artists are at the top of their skills, and their musical partnership is very special.




