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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

DUNI Le peintre amoureux de son modèle. Les deux chasseurs et la laitière

Egidio Duni (1708‑75) is not a total stranger to the recorded catalogue but he hasn’t been a regular visitor to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023

Carolyn Sampson: but I like to sing...

A hundred recordings – it’s a milestone worth celebrating, and soprano Carolyn Sampson does it in style with a recital...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2023

Lise Davidsen: Christmas from Norway

You have reached a certain status as a singer when you are granted a ‘Christmas With’ album. As far back...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2023

TORMIS Reminiscentiae

This collection comprises a number of Veljo Tormis’s choral pieces, as one might expect, but the central work is the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2023

Schubert in English Vol 4

These are new translations by Jeremy Sams, commissioned by Christopher Glynn for a modern English-speaking audience. They flow naturally with...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 12/2023

PICKARD Mass in Troubled Times (Brabbins)

Top billing on the front cover of this latest BIS release devoted to John Pickard goes to his 2018 Mass...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2023

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