Dean Frey’s Music for Several Instruments blog reviews Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jory Vinikour, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The Other Cleopatra: “This remarkable album is more than a classical music recording; it’s also a work of original scholarship and an effective cultural advocacy project. I hasten to add that it works especially well musically.…
The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia Yes, there was another Cleopatra! She was married to Tigranes the Great, King of Armenia, and together they created an Armenia that reached from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. The resplendent and regal voice of soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is perfectly suited to the role of Cleopatra. Bayrakdarian shines…
Rafael’s Music Notes reviews Isabel Bayrakdarian, Constantine Orbelian, the Kaunas City Symphony, and Jory Vinikour’s new recording, The Other Cleopatra: “In this intriguing DELOS release the Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian explores the story of Cleopatra of Egypt, Queen Consort of King Tigranes II of Armenia in the operatic music of Hasse, Vivaldi and Gluck, all…
Stephen Costello, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s A Te, O Cara: Stephen Costello Sings Bel Canto recording has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits.… The Kaunas City Symphony, under the…
“‘What a gorgeous voice—like a Rolls Royce. She must sing in the best theaters in the world!’, said the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky about Veronika Dzhioevo. And it is a fine voice. Moreover it is used with dramatic imagination… She has a voice that is even from top to bottom and has its own distinct color.…
Gramophone reviews Veronika Dzhioeva’s Ritorna Vincitor! recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony in the 2019 Awards Issue: “Though it clocks it at just under an hour, there’s plenty of bang for your buck in this high-voltage recital by a rising soprano … Veronika Dzhioeva has the impressive breath control and cutting edge…
Rafael de Acha reviews Veronika Dzhioeva’s new Ritorna Vincitor! recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra: “The late Dimitri Hvorostovsky was right when he said: “What a gorgeous voice – like a Rolls Royce, she must sing in the best theaters in the world!” I agree. … The beautiful, big voiced, intensely…
Veronika Dzhioeva Sings Favorite Arias “What a gorgeous voice — like a Rolls-Royce — she must sing in the best theaters in the world!” —Dmitri Hvorostovsky Since graduating from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 2005, soprano Veronika Dzhioeva has become one of Russia’s leading singers, and is in great demand throughout Europe and abroad, regularly…
Opera News names Stephen Costello‘s A Te, O Cara recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra a Critic’s Choice! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits. … Take, for example, the album’s opener, La Fille du Régiment’s ‘Ah! Mes amis.’ Costello does not reach for…
Delos’ international A&R director, globetrotting conductor Constantine Orbelian, recently returned to his San Francisco home base from an extended stay in Armenia and was pleasantly surprised to find multiple letters of congratulation from California political figures for his 2019 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Opera Recording. Orbelian and audio engineer Vilius Keras were honored for their…
Gramophone Magazine’s March 2019 issue is out and includes a great review of Stephen Costello’s new A Te, O Cara recording: “the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra under Constantine Orbelian suitably frame the emotional directness of the performances. Costello’s … colouristic range is apparent in every selection, allowing recitatives to speak with … light and shade.…
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator has a new interview with Constantine Orbelian in light of his third GRAMMY® nomination, “Best Opera Performance”, for Verdi’s Rigoletto. See his reason for wanting to do a recording of the work, and then read the full interview on mirrorspectator.com: First of all, I love opera and love Verdi. What appealed to…
It’s hardly surprising that orchestras and opera houses everywhere are still mounting memorial concerts and other events honoring the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky (known to us at Delos as “Dima”): perhaps the greatest Verdi baritone of our times. The latest celebration of his matchless art is today’s special concert in Kaunas, Lithuania, where Delos’s two…
Stephen Costello is currently performing the role of Don José with The Dallas Opera, and North Texas arts outlet TheaterJones has a new review for his Delos debut recording, A Te, O Cara. “[Stephen Costello] has the ability to take the familiar and put his stamp on it. For example, at the album’s center is the…
June 6th is composer Aram Khachaturian’s birthday celebration, so we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate the composer and his music with an all-new Spotify Playlist! Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was born in Tiflis, Imperial Russia (now Tbilisi, Georgia) to a poor Armenian family. In 1921, after Armenia became a part of the Soviet republic, Khachaturian left…
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