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BERG Lulu

These days it’s not unknown for productions of Berg’s Lulu to omit the first scene of Act 3, as finalised...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW/2012

Helden

Initial encounters with Klaus Florian Vogt can be unsettling. The voice is too small, sweet and youthful to be a...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012

WAGNER Die Walküre

I suspect that, to an even greater extent than his award-winning Götterdämmerung (7/10), the second instalment of Sir Mark Elder’s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2012

VERDI La Traviata

What binds these Traviatas, made almost 50 years apart, is how neatly one is what the other is not. Natalie...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012

Luciano Pavarotti: Portrait

When he died in 2007, Luciano Pavarotti left an estate worth in excess, it is said, of $474 million. It...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

WAGNER Götterdämmerung

As with its predecessors in Hamburg’s now complete 2008-10 Ring, Simone Young brings to Wagner’s textures a constant questioning of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2012

VERDI La Traviata

One we can see, one we can’t – but the 40 years that separate these new releases speak volumes in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2012

SCARLATTI Opera Arias

The 350th anniversary of Alessandro Scarlatti’s birth fell in 2010 but did not receive the fuss that one of the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2012

PUCCINI Tosca

When this operatic feature film first arrived 10 years ago, anybody suffering from cynicism about the publicised ‘love couple’ might...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012

JOPLIN Treemonisha

Imagine a parallel universe where the greatest democracy on earth had thought better than to legislate against a fifth of...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 04/2012

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