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WEBER Der Freischütz (Netopil)

The archetypal German Romantic opera, where folkish charm collides with sinister supernatural forces, has done well on CD. In the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022

SAINT-SAËNS Phryné (Niquet)

First performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1893, Phryné comes immediately after Saint-Saëns’s big stage works of the late 1870s and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

PHIBBS Juliana (Vass)

Vilified and banned though it may have been initially, Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888) has more than made up any lost...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffman (Nagano)

What do you want from Les contes d’Hoffmann? Enchantment or insight? Delirious high-Romantic fantasy or probing Jungian psychodrama? False dichotomies,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022

MOZART Idomeneo (Netopil)

Not since Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Don Giovanni (BelAir, A/13) have I seen such a wrong-headed account of a Mozart...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2022

Emőke Baráth: Dualità - Handel Opera Arias

‘Her person was coarse and masculine.’ ‘She was short and squat, with a doughy cross face.’ ‘She had so little...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022

CASABLANCAS L'Enigma Di Lea (Pons)

The first opera to be premiered at Barcelona’s Liceu for over a decade, Benet Casablancas’s L’enigma di Lea apparently aroused...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

James Gilchrist: One Hundred Years of British Song vol 3

The opening moments of this collection land you in a collision of disparate stimuli. The opening bars of the first...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022

Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle Époque

Time and again, one’s ears search for something subversive, some sort of coded protest in the music of these often-forgotten...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2022

Ice Land: The Eternal Music

Graham Ross isn’t the first musician to have got Iceland under his skin – a process that, for many of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022

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