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GOTTSCH Princess Yurievskaya (Alfonso)

The urge to compose is irresistible for many who are destined to make their livings in other vocations; among the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2021

JS BACH 'Metamorphosis' Cello Suites Nos 1-3 (Zachary Carrettín)

Having played Bach’s Solo Cello Suites on a cello da spalla, an electric Baroque violin with ‘unlimited reverb possibilities’ and...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2021

WAGNER Das Rheingold (Baleff)

In the run-up to the Wagner bicentenary in 2013, Plamen Kartaloff, director of the Sofia Opera, began to nurture a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2021

STRAUSS Elektra (Welser-Möst)

Marking the centenary of its founding by Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Max Reinhardt, last year’s Salzburg Festival went ahead with a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021

RAMEAU Dardanus - Tragedie Lyrique (Vashegyi)

Critics scorned the first production of Dardanus in 1739 as dramatically incoherent and reliant on absurd supernatural interventions. This probably...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2021

MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo – a tale in music (Malmberg)

On the day before the first performance of Monteverdi’s Orfeo on February 24, 1607, in the ducal palace in Mantua,...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2021

GOUNOD Mireille (Minkowski)

‘My heart cannot change’, sings the heroine of Gounod’s 1864 opera. Put baldly, that is the fixed premise of this...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2021

GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess (Live highlights. Alsop)

It always seems to be two steps forward, one step back for Porgy and Bess. For those present at the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2021

CORIGLIANO The Ghosts of Versailles (Colaneri)

Thirty years after its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, The Ghosts of Versailles has come home in more than a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2021

BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Janowski)

The vagaries forced upon recording and performing schedules by the coronavirus pandemic have sometimes produced some happy accidents. In the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2021

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