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OFFENBACH The Operas & Operettas Collection

Offenbach’s music is wicked’, said George Bernard Shaw. ‘It is abandoned stuff; every accent is a snap of the fingers...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2019

HAYDN Complete Symphonies (Vienna Chamber Orchestr, Maerzendorfer)

Haydn symphony cycles on disc have had an uneasy history, one that has often been pregnant with expectation but littered...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

VINCI Siroe, Re di Persia (Florio)

This is a follow-up to Dynamic’s recordings of Partenope (10/12) and Didone abbandonata (10/17). Siroe was staged at the Teatro...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019

VERDI Attila (Mariotti)

There’s a nagging feeling here that the wrong Attila has made it to DVD. In December 2018 Riccardo Chailly conducted...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2019

SALIERI Tarare (Rousset)

Salieri’s Les Danaïdes was such a success when it was staged at the Paris Opéra in April 1784 that the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro (Giulini)

Carlo Maria Giulini’s studio recording of Le nozze di Figaro was made in 1959, the September sessions followed by a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019

MERCADANTE Didone abbandonata (De Marchi)

No 18th-century Italian opera composer worth his salt could resist Didone abbandonata, the libretto that made Pietro Metastasio’s name. With...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019

Duel: Porpora and Handel in London

The existence of two competing Italian opera companies in London during the mid-1730s is a story that is sometimes told...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019

Simone Kermes: Mio caro Händel

Call me jaded, but in a saturated marketplace any new disc of Handel arias needs careful planning. Here we have...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019

DENNEHY The Last Hotel

In hotels things can fall apart. Dramas from Psycho to Peep Show have used hotel rooms as an outer expression...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019

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