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Marina Viotti: A Tribute to Pauline Viardot

Pauline Viardot led a remarkable life. Born in France to Spanish tenor Manuel García, who created the role of Count...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

Randall Scotting: The Crown - Heroic Arias for Senesino

Senesino (nickname for Francesco Bernardi) set the template for the star castrato with attitude. In contrast to the far more...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022

Jodie Devos: Bijoux perdus

Like Marina Viotti’s recording devoted to Pauline Viardot (see overleaf), this new album featuring Jodie Devos is a tribute to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Fuget)

Akin to the proverbial London bus, you wait ages for a new interpretation of Il ritorno d’Ulisse on record, then...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022

LULLY Acis et Galatée (Rousset)

Acis et Galatée is the last completed opera in Lully’s distinguished output, but unlike his famous and influential tragédies lyriques...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2022

LEONCAVALLO Zingari (Rizzi)

After Leoncavallo’s Zazà (7/16), Opera Rara continues to mine the nether regions of the verismo alphabet with the same composer’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

HANDEL Amadigi di Gaula (Curnyn)

Italian opera in London was still on a precarious footing when Handel staged Amadigi in May 1715. Fickle aristocratic audiences...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022

Lisette Oropesa: French Bel Canto Arias

For her second solo album, Lisette Oropesa combines her love for both the French language and Italian music in an...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2022

CATALANI La Wally (Orozco-Estrada)

Despite the fame of the title-character’s ‘Ebben? Ne andrò lontana’, Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally remains a rarity on disc –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2022

The Psalms (Choir of St John's College, Cambridge)

If I could take only a few forms of music to a desert island, the psalms sung to Anglican Chant...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2022

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