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WAGNER Meistersinger; Tristan und Isolde; Lohengrin

Post-war ‘new’ Bayreuth got off to a good start, recording-wise. All of its first 1951 stagings were caught live by...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Bernstein)

Leonard Bernstein’s seemingly ambivalent fascination with Wagner’s Tristan had begun as early as the 1950s with substantial televised excerpts with...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018

RESPIGHI La campana sommersa (Renzetti)

Successful during Respighi’s lifetime in both Europe and the United States, La campana sommersa was first performed in Hamburg in...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

RAMEAU Le Temple de la Gloire (McGegan)

Le Temple de la Gloire is an opéra-ballet to a libretto by Voltaire, first performed at Versailles on November 27,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2018

MOZART La Clemenza di Tito (Ticciati)

Claus Guth’s staging of La clemenza di Tito takes place entirely within a split-level set: the private scenes of emotional...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018

KÜNNEKE Heart Overboard

Operetta composers confronted the jazz age in different ways. Prince Sándor in Kálmán’s Die Herzogin von Chicago actually outlaws the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2018

HALÉVY La reine de Chypre (Niquet)

Fromental Halévy (1799-1862): not a name one comes across very often. But he was a key figure, with Meyerbeer, in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2018

FLOTOW Martha (Weigle)

It’s a strange libretto, like a mixture of Lessing and early French light opera. Its political correctness – in ‘the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018

BATES The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs was premiered in Santa Fe last year. Setting a libretto by Mark Campbell,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

Statements: Choral Music from Yale University

For their Naxos debut, Jeffrey Douma and the Yale Choral Artists perform music by three Yale composers that projects seriousness...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2018

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