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L'Olimpiade

The operatic pasticcio – literally ‘hotch-potch’ or ‘pudding’ – was fair game for 18th-century satirists. Unfazed, impresarios and composers, Handel...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue:

VACCAI (La) sposa di Messina

Nicola Vaccaj (or Vaccai) was born in 1790 and died in 1848. He was thus a contemporary of Rossini, Donizetti...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012

POULENC Dialogues des Carmélites

In 1988 Alan Blyth, praising the opera’s first official recording on EMI in 1958 (with Denise Duval, Régine Crespin and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012

PFITZNER Palestrina

In Palestrina, Pfitzner was an inheritor of Wagner’s through-composed music dramas – indeed, his sparing use of vocal display, of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012

OFFENBACH Un Mari à la porte

Even after success with Orphée aux enfers, Offenbach continued to produce the light-hearted one-act operettas that had earlier made his...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 09/2012

MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea

First presented in Munich and Cardiff 15 years ago, the David Alden/Paul Steinberg/Buki Schiff Poppea is seen here in a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012

MASSENET Cendrillon

As there is no wholly recommendable recording of Cendrillon on CD, a new DVD release is welcome. To date the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2012

HANDEL Atalanta, HWV35

Atalanta was designed to celebrate the recent marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha and was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2012

BELLINI Il Pirata

Someone should write a biography of Domenico Barbaia, the larger-than-life impresario whose management of the opera houses in Naples, Vienna...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012

España

The Belgian pianist Michel Block (1937-2003) grew up in Mexico enraptured by the Spanish music he heard on the radio....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

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