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Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Rachel

The American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been building an impressive international career for over a decade, as well as walking...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

Florian Sempey: Figaro? Sì!

The album cover for Florian Sempey’s new album shows the French baritone clearly having fun accosting a Rossini bust, and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Trinks)

For many years I’ve been trying to persuade people that The Fiery Angel is Prokofiev’s best opera. The others have...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2022

NEUWIRTH Orlando (Pintscher)

Filmed during its opening run, Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando was the first full‑length opera by a female composer to be performed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2022

MOZART Così fan tutte (Mehta)

Two productions of Così fan tutte by Sven-Eric Bechtolf have already appeared on DVD: from Zurich, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022

DONIZETTI 'The Three Queens'

Sondra Radvanovsky became the first soprano to sing Donizetti’s three Tudor queens – Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Elisabetta (in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022

BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Pappano)

One of the most eagerly awaited productions of the 2019‑20 season at Covent Garden was this Fidelio, with Antonio Pappano...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

A Room of Mirrors

The mirror – glass of truth or deception, revealing a twin-self or a dark double – is the intriguing theme...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2022

Resurrexi!: Easter in Vienna with Mozart and the Haydn Brothers

The subtitle is misleading, as the music by Mozart and Michael Haydn here was all composed for Salzburg Cathedral and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022

An Old Belief

What might at first glance seem like a disparate programme of medieval carols, Renaissance lute songs, Romantic motets and 20th-century...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2022

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