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WAGNER Die Walküre

This new set, the first of a planned Ring that is being assembled from live concert performances, boasts a promising...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2013

MOZART Lucio Silla

Premiered in Milan on December 26, 1772, Mozart’s second theatrical triumph is opera at its most imposingly seria. As one...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013

LALO Fiesque

Admirers of Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys must sometimes wonder what happened to Fiesque, his first and only other completed opera....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2013

JANÁČEK Jenufa

Few familiar names are found among the singers and creative team that brought about this distinctive, modern-dress Jen≤fa at Malmö...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2013

GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide. Iphigénie en Tauride

Composed for the Paris Opéra in 1774 and 1779 respectively, Gluck’s Iphigénie operas make a good pair. Practical considerations mean...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2013

BENJAMIN Written On Skin

‘Strange’ is a word that recurs in the notes provided by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp for this recording of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2013

Romantic Arias

The baritone and his delightfully Goethean-named producer Wilhelm Meister stick strictly to the historical definition of the disc’s title, ‘Romantic...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2013

VIVALDI Orlando Furioso, RV728

In autumn 1713 Vivaldi took over management of opera at Venice’s Teatro S Angelo and put on a production of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2013

TELEMANN Flavius Bertaridus, König der Longobarden

Most of Telemann’s operas for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt theatre are lost. One of the few exceptions is Flavius Bertaridus (1729), which...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2013

HANDEL Giulio Cesare in Egitto

The vast discography of Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) is a proverbial mixed bag. The Bavarian State Opera’s 1994 production...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2013

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