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BOYCE The Bird is an Alphabet

For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal-chamber works gathered...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2024

ADLER Unholy Sonnets

While not an ardent fan of the art song medium, I have to say that this new Navona album of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024

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

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