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Johan Botha: Italian Opera Arias

This double album serves as a natural follow-up to a selection of scenes by Beethoven, Strauss and Wagner, recorded live...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019

WAGNER Siegfried (Elder)

This new Siegfried completes Mark Elder and the Hallé’s Ring, nine years in the making from concerts in Manchester and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2019

VACCAJ Giulietta e Romeo

The ordering of the names might give a clue: like Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Nicola Vaccaj’s Giulietta e...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019

SPONTINI Olimpie

Spontini, the favourite of Napoleon and Josephine, had his greatest successes with La vestale and Fernand Cortez, staged at the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2019

MONTEVERDI The Coronation of Poppea (Helyard)

Pinchgut Opera’s 2017 staged production has several singers doubling up in multiple roles, which is likely the same sort of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2019

KÁLMÁN Ein Herbstmanöver

You can’t have Viennese operetta without gold braid, frogging and moustachioed cavalry officers, and Kálmán’s ‘military operetta’ Ein Herbstmanöver is...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2019

GRANADOS Goyescas (Pons)

In purely dramatic terms, Goyescas doesn’t amount to much: its plot is threadbare and its characters are little more than...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2019

EINEM Der Prozess (Gruber)

Literaturoper is what German writers (not uncritically) named a growing school of 20th-century composers who set librettos taken from compressed...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2019

DONIZETTI; VERDI Opera Arias (Michael Fabiano)

In some respects, Michael Fabiano was famous before he was famous. In 2009 he appeared in Susan Froemke’s feature documentary...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2019

BIELAWA Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser

The origins of Lisa Bielawa’s video opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser reach back to the 1990s....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

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