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WUORINEN Brokeback Mountain

Few short stories have become so quickly and so deeply embedded in the American consciousness as Annie Proulx’s 1997 Brokeback...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2015

WEBER Silvana

There can’t be many operas in which the heroine sings not a word. Auber’s La Muette de Portici has its...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

VINCI Catone in Utica

Max Emanuel Cencic and his production company Parnassus Arts follow up their trailblazing recording of Vinci’s Artaserse (Virgin Classics, 1/13)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015

VERDI Nabucco

As captured on this DVD, Nicola Luisotti is able to shape the fluency that Antonio Pappano’s orchestra and Renato Balsadonna’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

Strauss Gala Concert

Numerous fine ideas here – which only half worked. An all-Richard Strauss gala makes sense for Dresden (one of the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2015

ROSSINI William Tell

Verdi-Wagner year fell in 2013. That was also the year in which two dauntless Rossini festivals decided to stage, complete...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015

REIMANN Lear; SALLINEN King Lear

Aulis Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear – from a translation of the play by Matti Rossi – was filmed in 2002 at...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

RAMEAU Castor & Pollux

Castor et Pollux, Rameau’s third opera, was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1737. Preceded by an old-fashioned Prologue...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

MOZART Opera Arias and Overtures

In Covent Garden’s recent Don Giovanni Elizabeth Watts threatened to steal the show with her alluringly sensuous Zerlina. Even without...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015

MOZART The Magic Flute

As with Klemperer’s Fidelio, this live performance from Covent Garden – which now appears on disc for the first time...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

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