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MESSAGER Passionnément (Blunier)

We owe this performance of Passionément to Covid 19, as it happens. Bru Zane’s original intention was to give us...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2021

MAYR Elena (Hauk)

‘Un morceau de génie’ was Stendhal’s verdict on Elena, triumphantly premiered in Naples in January 1814. Like Fidelio, whose final...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021

GOUNOD La reine de Saba (Rose)

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Odyssey Opera specialises in mining the operatic archives to perform rarely heard works. Recent years have...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

GLASS Satyagraha (Anzolini)

How times change! Satyagraha, Philip Glass’s 1979 third opera, was once declared a child of the 1960s with its apparent...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2021

DESTOUCHES Semiramis (Sartre)

This was the eighth of Destouches’s 10 operas and the last of his six tragédies en musique. The libretto was...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2021

CIMAROSA Il Matrimonio Segreto (De Marchi)

First performed at Vienna’s Burgtheater in February 1792 (almost two months to the day after Mozart’s death), Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2021

ABRAHÁM Ball at the Savoy

When does an operetta become a musical? Paul Abrahám’s 1932 jazz operetta Ball at the Savoy – which opened in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021

SCHUMANN Complete Songs (Christian Gerhaher )

It was nearly five years ago that Christian Gerhaher, arguably the finest and most fascinating lieder singer working today, revealed...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2021

More Honourable Than the Cherubim

For those who love Rachmaninov’s Vespers (All-Night Vigil) and regularly reflect in wonderment at the depth and resonance of Russian...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021

Voces8: Infinity

Why do we listen to music? Is it about stimulation or oblivion, medication, meditation or a conversation? The answer seems...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2021

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