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Sempre libera

Ritzily presented in rock-style black cover with fold-out insert and plentiful glamour photos, this not-so-common CD from Norwegian Opera forces...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

Arias for Caffarelli

Caffarelli sang in London for only one season (1737/38), and neither of his Handelian roles is represented in Franco Fagioli’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2013

Nino Machaidze: Arias & Scenes

A star presence and an increasingly brilliant vocalist, Nino Machaidze has still some distance to go before she is a...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2013

Wagner In Switzerland

Second things first: if there was a CD cover and booklet of the year award, this release would walk it....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

WAGNER Das Liebesverbot

Would it matter if the 23-year-old Wagner – nothing if not impulsive – had destroyed all copies of his ‘comic...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2013

Jonas Kaufmann: The Verdi Album

Accolades first: there are few tenors around today who could have pulled off such a repertoire hop with such a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

Lucia Aliberti: Early Verdi Arias

Though Verdi’s creative lifetime is one of the great artistic arcs in opera, his unmistakable voice was there from the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2013

ROSSINI Semiramide

Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with which it shares certain plot archetypes, Semiramide is rarely played complete. Yet when it is, as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2013

PROKOFIEV The Gambler

The vivid stories of Tolstoy’s exploits as a gambler provide real-life evidence of why gambling is such a recurrent theme...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2013

MOZART Don Giovanni

There is so much wrong with this inconsistent, misconceived production that I hardly know where to start. Best to begin,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2013

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