Presto Editor's Choice
May 2022

Lisette Oropesa (soprano), René Barbera (tenor), Ilseyar Khayrullova (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Pittari (tenor), Biagio Pizzuti (baritone), Allen Boxer (baritone), Alexander Köpeczy (bass)
Dresdner Philharmoniker, Sachsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden
Daniel Oren

"The passion and pathos of Oropesa's vivid, truly three-dimensional Violetta registers just as keenly on this studio-recording as it does on stage, and the sheer gorgeousness of her singing (from the manic pyrotechnics which close Act One to the exquisite floated top A at the end of 'Addio del passato') is the worth the price of the set alone. Barbera's elegant, if rather light-voiced Alfredo is an ideal foil, and Lynch matches her emotional investment to the hilt in their great confrontation-scene." - Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, May 2022.