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MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea (Alarcón)

This production of Monteverdi’s last operatic masterpiece was filmed on the stage of the Opéra Royal at Versailles in January...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024

MENOTTI Amahl and the Night Visitors (Loddgard)

Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors belongs to that curious class of works that are widely supposed to be ubiquitous...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024

LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus (Vashegyi)

Leclair’s only commission from the Paris Opéra was a box-office flop, never revived on the public stage until modern times....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

GAZZANIGA L'isola d'Alcina (Ehrhardt)

If you have already heard of Giuseppe Gazzaniga it is probably because his ‘Don Giovanni’ middle act in Il capriccio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024

BERTIN Fausto (Rousset)

When Fausto was first performed at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in March 1831, there was much comment in the press,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024

BRITTEN War Requiem (including rehearsal sequence. Britten)

Britten’s War Requiem touched a trapped nerve in the collective psyche of post-war Britain, commemorating the war dead with both...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2024

Sandrine Piau: Reflet

This programme explores pre-war Ravel, Koechlin and Britten that happens to sit in the sweetest spots of Piau’s comfort zone,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024

'Morning Star’

‘Morning Star’ follows where 2019’s ‘Christmas’ (12/19) led – a festive release of a distinctly grown-up sort, this time taking...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2024

WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder (Joyce DiDonato)

Joyce DiDonato’s performance of ‘Schmerzen’ from the Wesendonck Lieder formed part of her ‘Eden’ album (3/22), a mixed programme crossing...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024

TŮMA Motets. Dixit Dominus. Sinfonia (Válek)

Of the composers who spanned the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of the Classical period in Central Europe,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024

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