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L’opéra des opéra (Watson, Deshayes, Van Mechelen)

In 1671 Lully assembled a Ballet des ballets, a pasticcio made up of excerpts from his own works. Here Benoît...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2019

Xavier Sabata: L'Alessandro Amante

Xavier Sabata has taken Alexander the Great as the subject of his latest recital, a carefully programmed and finely executed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY The Queen of Spades (Fedoseyev)

Three quotes head the booklet note for this Melodiya recording of The Queen of Spades – by Alexander Pushkin, Pyotr...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2019

ROTA La notte du un nevrastenico. I due timidi (Bonolis)

Unsurprisingly, the man who scored The Godfather knew how to get hearts racing in the opera house. Nino Rota’s best-known...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

MESSAGER Ls P'tites Michu (Dumoussaud)

Many people know the Donkey duet (‘Trot here and there’) from Véronique, an opéra comique staged at the Bouffes-Parisiens in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2019

LORENZANI Nicandro e Fileno

The Roman Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) was the only Italian musician other than Lully to hold a court post during the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2019

HANDEL Acis and Galatea (Christophers)

As David Vickers pointed out in his Gramophone Collection article last October, it took a long time for recordings of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019

CHARPENTIER Les arts florissans. La couronne de fleurs

Charpentier’s pastoral entertainments Les arts florissans and La couronne de fleurs (1685) were commissioned by the Mademoiselle de Guise to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2019

CELLIER Dorothy (Bonynge)

If asked to name the most successful English operetta of the 19th century, you’d probably go for The Mikado or...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

CAVALLI Ombra mai fu (Philippe Jaroussky)

Francesco Cavalli’s 33 surviving operas provide a rich playground for any period performer and the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky throws himself...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2019

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