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Dinara Alieva: Pace, mio Dio

From the quality of her voice, one would guess that the soprano Dinara Alieva came from Spain or Italy, but...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2014

Love Duets

Almost everything about this disc is inevitable. A real-life couple, Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello share much of the same...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

Hibla Gerzmava: Soprano

The circumstances of the recording aren’t promising: a one-off concert with an up-and-coming soprano singing an impressive though exhausting range...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

VIVALDI L'incoronazione di Dario

The plot of L’incoronazione di Dario (1717) revolves around three rival claimants to the throne of Persia. The shrewd lord...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014

VINCI Artaserse

Artaserse was first performed at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome on February 4, 1730. (Less than four months later...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014

ROYER Pyrrhus

Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1703 55) was the master of music at the Paris Opéra during the early 1730s, a leading light...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014

ROSSINI Otello

Rossini’s Otello has had a handful of stagings in recent years but none as potent as this. Conceived for the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2014

D PURCELL The Judgment of Paris

‘At last we have a recording of John Eccles’s Judgment of Paris’, wrote Julie Anne Sadie of the Early Opera...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

HANDEL Orlando

With this new recording, based on a production at La Monnaie, Orlando now rivals Giulio Cesare as the best-served Handel...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014

GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess

Times are tough for seasoned admirers of Porgy and Bess. The recent Broadway production sliced, diced and reorchestrated the score...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

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