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Verismo: Preludi e Intermezzi
Seeing the words Hindoyan and verismo in close conjunction I’d lazily anticipated a joint recital disc with the conductor’s wife,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
Cyrille Dubois: Jouissons de nos beaux ans!
Taking its title from an amorous chorus in Rameau’s Les Boréades (1763), this programme traverses French operatic genres spanning from...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2023
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Fiore)
The opening signs for this Meistersinger are promising. The curtain of the Deutsche Oper Berlin stays closed as John Fiore...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2023
VERDI Ernani (Conlon)
Though Ernani shows Verdi at his dramatically incisive best in this early stage of his output, the opera still needs...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2023
PUCCINI Tosca (Albrecht)
How do you like your Tosca? Traditional or radical? Vienna offers both. At the Staatsoper, Margarethe Wallmann’s staging, premiered with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2023
LULLY Thésée (Rousset )
With their latest release, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques continue their exploration of the operas of Lully. Premiered in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2023
LEHÁR Wiener Frauen (Burkert)
Poor Philip Rosner. What’s a nice young Viennese bridegroom to do when his fiancée’s former beloved (vanished, presumed drowned) reappears...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
GIORDANO Andrea Chénier (Armiliato)
When it was under the leadership of Nikolaus Bachler, the Bavarian State Opera rarely had a season without Jonas Kaufmann,...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 12/2023
DUNI Le peintre amoureux de son modèle. Les deux chasseurs et la laitière
Egidio Duni (1708‑75) is not a total stranger to the recorded catalogue but he hasn’t been a regular visitor to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
Carolyn Sampson: but I like to sing...
A hundred recordings – it’s a milestone worth celebrating, and soprano Carolyn Sampson does it in style with a recital...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2023
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