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TCHAIKOVSKY The Enchantress (Uryupin)

The Enchantress (1887) is among Tchaikovsky’s least‑known, least-performed mature operas, yet it was the one he considered his finest. Set...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024

PUTS The Hours (Nézet-Séguin)

So far, The Hours has polarised opera audiences. For some, it’s an enveloping fusion of intricate dramaturgy and symphonic orchestration....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut (Villaume)

The Davide Livermore production is the primary appeal of this Manon Lescaut DVD: dramaturgical problems are successfully addressed in an...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024

Golda Schultz: Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!

La povera ragazza, è pazza, amici miei. ‘The poor girl, my friends, has lost her mind’, confides Don Giovanni to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024

CHARPENTIER David et Jonathas (Schneebeli)

Having rejoiced in March at the first top-class interpretation of David et Jonathas to emerge in donkey’s years, just a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2024

ADAMS The Girls of the Golden West (Adams)

The opera repertoire would be considerably diminished if composers had abandoned their ‘problem children’ at the first sign of trouble....

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 06/2024

‘Wonder Women’

The booklet notes open with declamatory words by Maddalena Casulana, the 16th-century composer, lutenist and singer: ‘I wish … to...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2024

Invocazioni Mariane

‘Porpora, rival of Handel, mentor of Haydn, is worth exploring’ is how I ended my review of the DVD of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2024

Schütz - A German in Venice

Not to suggest that Schütz needs saving from obscurity, nor to imply that he’s a ‘minor master’ (don’t you just...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

Feast of the Swan: A Renaissance Brotherhood At Table

Cappella Pratensis here show an almost Trumpian need to push the boundaries and see how far they can get away...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2024

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