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CATEL Sémiramis

If you love the operas of Cherubini and Berlioz – the latter, at least, would not have found that an...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH The French Suites

Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

VERDI Simon Boccanegra

Whatever one thinks of Plácido Domingo’s assumption of the baritone title-role of Simon Boccanegra, he has decidedly raised the opera’s...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012

STRAUSS Salome

‘We await a gripping modern Salome on DVD’: that was Mike Ashman’s verdict on the 2007 La Scala production (TDK,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2012

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos

A Karl Böhm Ariadne is not news. There are four predecessor competitors currently still available (a 1969 DG LP set...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2012

NEBRA Iphigenia en Tracia

And what, you may well ask, is Iphigenia doing in Thrace? Hoping to intercept Orpheus, before he is torn to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012

MOZART The Magic Flute

William Kentridge’s production of Die Zauberflöte was first seen at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2005. Since then it has...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012

MOZART Seraglio

It could be years before we see a light-hearted production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail again. While relations between...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2012

MASSENET Don Quichotte

Don Quichotte was the fourth opera commissioned from Massenet by Raoul Gunsbourg, director of the Monte Carlo Opéra. The title-role...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012

HEGGIE Dead Man Walking

The next logical step for Jake Heggie’s hit opera Dead Man Walking would seem to be a DVD. In its...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012

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