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BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Morts

‘A vast and almost impossible project’, Paul McCreesh calls it in a liner note. Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts is...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2011

Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson: A Tribute

Since Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s premature death in 2006 she has acquired an almost mythical aura, akin to that surrounding Kathleen...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011

VIVALDI Teuzzone

Between 1718 and 1720 Vivaldi worked in Mantua, where he was appointed maestro di cappella da camera to the Habsburg...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2011

TURNAGE Anna Nicole

It seems fitting that Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole should reach a wider audience through this vividly filmed DVD. Like Anna...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2011

POULENC Dialogues des Carmélites

Modern production-hater and musical conservative Riccardo Muti must have thought he was in seventh heaven when he discovered a staging...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2011

JANÁČEK Jenufa

Stéphane Braunschweig’s production dates back to 1996, when it played host to a memorable series of performances at the Théâtre...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2011

Tragédiennes 3

Susan Graham says that all roads in the lyric mezzo repertoire lead to Dido in Berlioz’s magnum opus, Les Troyens....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2011

VERDI Les vêpres siciliennes

The Sicilian Vespers, like Don Carlos, was composed for the Paris Opéra. Like Don Carlos, too, it’s better known in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2011

PUCCINI La fanciulla del West

Any new recording of Fanciulla confronts the most troublesome opera of Puccini’s maturity, though since this one is live, it’s...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2011

MOZART The Magic Flute

This Magic Flute, which is performed in English, should come with a warning. You have to look closely at the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2011

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