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Review of CABANISS Four Elements

CABANISS Four Elements

Collaborative undertakings for the stage comprise a significant portion of Thomas Cabaniss’s oeuvre – not only operas but dance works...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024

Review of Shades of Romani Folklore

Shades of Romani Folklore

With so many superb young string quartets active on the music scene, it is heartening to realise that the genre...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2024

Review of VERDI I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Repušić)

VERDI I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Repušić)

Verdi’s fourth opera, I Lombardi, comes with little consensus opinion, the music suggesting an overlooked masterwork though the beyond-pedestrian libretto...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta. The Nutcracker (Wellber)

TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta. The Nutcracker (Wellber)

Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera, and The Nutcracker, his final ballet, premiered together at the Mariinsky Theatre in December 1892. Initial...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024

Review of ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mariotti)

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mariotti)

It took a French theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us a near-definitive staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini Il...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024

Review of PUCCINI Tosca (Montanaro)

PUCCINI Tosca (Montanaro)

This new Tosca forms the latest release in Pentatone’s Puccini series centred round the pairing of American soprano Melody Moore...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024

Review of PORPORA Polifemo (Petrou)

PORPORA Polifemo (Petrou)

The Opera of the Nobility’s production of Polifemo ran at the King’s Theatre from February to June 1735 in direct...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

Review of PADEREWSKI Manru (Wendeberg)

PADEREWSKI Manru (Wendeberg)

Paderewski was a far more substantial composer than his piano-showcase pieces would suggest, as proved by his first and only...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024

Review of MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea (Alarcón)

MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea (Alarcón)

This production of Monteverdi’s last operatic masterpiece was filmed on the stage of the Opéra Royal at Versailles in January...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024

Review of MENOTTI Amahl and the Night Visitors (Loddgard)

MENOTTI Amahl and the Night Visitors (Loddgard)

Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors belongs to that curious class of works that are widely supposed to be ubiquitous...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024

 

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