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Franco Fagioli: Veni, Vidi, Vinci

Contrary to the chronic pun, Vinci neither composed an opera about Julius Caesar nor conquered Britain – although some of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020

TELEMANN Miriways (Labadie)

In all but name, Miriways is a German-language opera seria, with a happy ending after the characters have confronted –...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2020

STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten (Thielemann)

The Vienna State Opera’s centenary production of Die Frau ohne Schatten last year was inevitably one of the hottest tickets...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020

MONIUSZKO The Haunted Manor (Nowak)

This fantastic series of Moniuszko operas with period-instrument orchestras continues apace with Straszny dwór (The Haunted Manor), a four-act work...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2020

MASSENET Thaïs (Davis)

Made in tandem with concert performances in Toronto last November, Andrew Davis’s recording of Massenet’s great parable about sex and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020

MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana (Janowski)

After recordings of Wagner, Weber and Humperdinck for Pentatone, Mascagni might seem like a bit of a detour for Marek...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020

Samuel Mariño: Care pupille

Since Alfred Deller was ‘discovered’ by Michael Tippett in the 1940s, countertenors have tended to get higher and louder. Many...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020

Sleeper's Prayer: Choral Music from North America

Whether or not you like the typical American choral sound, there’s no denying that it was made both by and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2020

Cantos sagrados

‘What did you say?’, the opening phrase of James MacMillan’s Cantos sagrados abruptly demands. But the answer here is in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2020

MAHLER Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Ilker Arcayürek)

The Istanbul-born, Vienna-based tenor Ilker Arcayürek’s Schubert-only debut was well received in these pages, earning an Editor’s Choice (Champs Hill,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020

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