Search the Reviews Database

Jonas Kaufmann: You Mean the World to Me

The distinctive repertoire was planned by Thomas Voigt – not a trawl through predictable encores but a look at the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014

Maria Luigia Borsi: Italian Opera Arias

It is welcome to have on the Naxos budget label a collection of Italian soprano arias as attractive as this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014

WAGNER Lohengrin

No sooner has de Billy walked out of the Vienna State Opera in a dispute about cuts in Lohengrin than...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014

ROSSINI L'Italiana in Algeri

For its 2013 bicentenary production of L’italiana in Algeri, Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival assembled a cast and conductor whose realisation...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2014

RAMEAU Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour

The Festivities of Hymen and Cupid started out as a ballet-héroïque in three entrées called The Gods of Egypt. With...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2014

PORPORA Arias

Partnered ably by Academia Montis Regalis, Franco Fagioli sings with fulsome bravado and technical virtuosity in vibrant performances of 12...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

MOZART Desperate Heroines: Opera Arias

‘Desperate heroines’ runs the rubric for what Sandrine Piau dubs ‘a Mozartian “cartography” of the feminine condition’. Desperation is hardly...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2014

MOZART Don Giovanni

Here, only five years after Francesca Zambello’s production (Opus Arte, 7/09), is a new version of Don Giovanni from Covent...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2014

MACMILLAN Clemency

Good ideas are everywhere in Clemency, though that doesn’t mean they’ve translated into a good listening experience in this live...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2014

LULLY Atys

Based on a tale from Ovid, Quinault’s libretto for Atys (1676) was the first collaboration with Lully to eschew comic...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---