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RAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie

Ivan Alexandre’s rigorously historicist production of Hippolyte et Aricie requires that singers almost always face the front and sing downstage,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015

MOZART Don Giovanni

With Don Giovanni productions placing the opera in nearly every imaginable time and place, this one may be the only...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

HASSE Siroe re di Persia

Metastasio’s libretto Siroe, re di Persia is based loosely on the life of the Persian King Khosrau II, whose aggressive...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015

HANDEL Siroe, King of Persia

Siroe has been relatively little recorded among Handel’s operas; versions by Rudolph Palmer (Newport Classics, 5/92 – nla) and Andreas...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015

HAHN Ciboulette

Well, well. It was Hahn who edited the score of Rameau’s Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, the opéra-ballet...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2015

DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor

We still await a stunning all-round version of this seminal drama on disc. To encompass fully a heroine already at...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015

CAVALLI Elena

This Aix-en-Provence production (2013) represents the first time something close to the complete score of Elena (1659) has been performed...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015

BELLINI I Capuleti E I Montecchi

Such are the purely aural delights of Bellini’s version of the Romeo and Juliet story – based on an earlier,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 2/2000

Transeamus : English Carols and Motets

Several of The Hilliard Ensemble’s earliest recordings were of 15th-century English music, so it is fitting that they should return...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015

The Spy's Choirbook

Almost 50 choirbooks now survive from the copying workshop of Petrus Alamire, who happens to have been active as a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2015

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