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WAGNER Tannhäuser
Though often a director of dazzling invention, Robert Carsen takes such a contrary approach to Tannhäuser in this production that,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2012
VIVALDI Orlando Furioso, RV728
Not so much furious as mad: and they don’t come much madder than Orlando in this production by Pierre Audi....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2012
MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea
Monteverdi’s last opera is renowned for two particular features: the principal characters are drawn from history rather than legend, and...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2012
MASSENET Werther
It is a shame that this live recording of Werther comes to us as audio only. Although the Royal Opera’s...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012
HERMANN Wuthering Heights
The full plot of Emily Brontë’s novel makes those of Russian 19th-century epics read like Noddy. Like Carlisle Floyd, Bernard...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012
HARVEY Wagner Dream
Avoiding the more prosaic title, Wagner’s Dream, Jonathan Harvey and his librettist Jean-Claude Carrière identify their true theme: a 21st-century...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2012
HANDEL Il pastor fido, HWV8a
The musical and theatrical extravagances of Handel’s first London opera, Rinaldo, had created a sensation early in 1711. Over a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2012
WAGNER Lohengrin
When Orfeo’s Bayreuth series was first launched a decade ago, orchestral representatives at the Festival were especially keen to see...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2012
WAGNER Götterdämmerung
It is a curious story. It’s 1956. A major record company, which already has three ‘live’ Bayreuth Götterdämmerungs in its...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2012
VIVALDI Opera Arias
‘A journey of love, fear, rage and despair’, proclaims Fabio Bonizzoni, with no hyperbole. Once or twice – say, in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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