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VERDI Macbeth

A ruffian who rose too far, too fast? Or a more cultivated Scotsman who might have been king anyway but...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin

Memories and fantasies, in olden and modern times, all mingle and collide in this Stefan Herheim production of Eugene Onegin...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012

ROSSINI Le comte Ory

‘What musical riches!’ exclaimed Berlioz when he first set eyes on Rossini’s last and most subtly wrought operatic comedy in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2012

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Though the emotional temperature of this Marriage of Figaro video runs high, warming up to it may take a while....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012

MOZART Apollo et Hyacinthus, K38

As a nine-year-old in London, Mozart displayed his innate theatrical flair in a series of operatic improvisations that astonished the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012

GLUCK Il Trionfo di Clelia

‘Lars Porsena of Clusium / By the Nine Gods he swore / That the great house of Tarquin / Should...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2012

VINCI Artaserse

The rehabilitation of Leonardo Vinci (c1696-1730) has been long overdue. He trained at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2012

Ferveur & Extase

French ensemble Amarillis set out here to explore two female characters who fascinated Baroque sensibilities, Dido and the Virgin Mary....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2012

Arias for Anna de Amicis

‘De Amicis sings beyond comparison’ was the 14 year-old Mozart’s verdict on the Neapolitan soprano for whom, two years later,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2012

WEILL Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Without use of that word beginning with V that puts many non-Germans off (let’s call it ‘irony’ or ‘alienation’), Brecht’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2012

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