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VERDI Un giorno di regno (Bosch)

Un giorno di regno was Verdi’s only opera buffa, an early work composed in 1840 and a far cry from...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2018

SMYTH The Wreckers

This historic first recording of Ethel Smyth’s masterpiece The Wreckers derives from a meticulously prepared 1994 Henry Wood Promenade Concert,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018

ROSSINI Mosè in Egitto (Mazzola)

Much as the victim of a street mugging might ask ‘Why me?’, so one’s tempted to ask ‘Why Mosè in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018

RICORDI The Stolen Bucket (La secchia rapita)

Giulio Ricordi will always be remembered as the tenacious publisher who engineered Verdi’s collaboration with Boito and later championed Puccini,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018

MOZART Don Giovanni (Domingo)

The USP of this enjoyable production is that it comes from the Estates Theatre in Prague, the very building in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2018

HANDEL Arminio (Petrou)

Max Emanuel Cencic performs the dual role of both stage director and title-hero for this production, filmed at the Karlsruhe...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2018

DONIZETTI Il borgomastro di Saardam (Brignoli)

Il borgomastro di Saardam – ‘The Mayor of Saardam’ – is a melodramma giocoso, first performed in Naples in August...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2018

CACCINI La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina

Francesca Caccini, daughter of the tempestuous professional singer Giulio, a composer best known for his landmark song collection Le nuove...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2018

Sibylla

The Prophetiae Sibyllarum have had several outings on disc, mostly with mixed, medium-sized choirs (Daedalus, Vocalconsort Berlin, Brabant Ensemble). This...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018

A Rose Magnificat

The soprano solo that opens Leighton’s Of a rose is all my song flowers out of frosty silence, gradually pushing...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018

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