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RAMEAU Les Boréades (Vashegyi)

Les Boréades was rehearsed twice in April 1763 but then abandoned. Perhaps its libertarian plot fell foul of censors during...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2024

PUCCINI Love Affairs (Jonas Kaufmann)

Call it operatic speed dating as the tenor Jonas Kaufmann embarks on a whirlwind romance with six different sopranos. In...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2024

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro (Pichon)

Remember the rubber shark in Martin Kušej’s doomed Idomeneo at the Royal Opera in 2014? Its carcass is served up...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2024

LEHÁR Schön ist die Welt (Burkert)

‘The world is beautiful, when luck brings you a fairy tale …’ Lehár’s post-Merry Widow career is studded with fascinating...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024

Welcome Joy: A Celebration of Women’s Voices

The chemistry of mysticism, a partiality for orientalism and a career teaching at St Paul’s Girls’ School for over 30...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2024

Bruno de Sa: Mille affetti

Just when you thought falsettists couldn’t get any higher, along comes Bruno de Sá, pinging out high Cs and Ds...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024

Benjamin Bernheim - Douce France: Melodies & Chansons

Here’s a very grown-up pleasure: Benjamin Bernheim and Carrie-Ann Matheson have put together a recital of French-language songs that are...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024

Huw Montague Rendall: Contemplation

Thirty-year-old British baritone Huw Montague Rendall, the son of mezzo Diana Montague and tenor David Rendall, has been causing something...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2024

Royal Throne of Kings: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Shakespeare

Around half of this latest offering from those enterprising folk at Albion Records is given over to incidental music from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2024

RIDDERSTOLPE Untold Tales

Not even the Swedish duo of Kristina Hammarström and Anna Paradiso had heard of Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793-1878) until the latter...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2024

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