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SCHÜTZ Dafne (Wilson)

Alas, the music of Schütz’s Dafne is entirely lost. Whether or not the ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’ was really the first German...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2022

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Golden Cockerel (Rustioni)

Thanks to Barrie Kosky’s production at the Royal Opera, everyone now imagines that Shostakovich’s opera The Nose contains a scene...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 10/2022

OFFENBACH Le voyage dans la lune (Dumoussaud)

When Offenbach’s Le voyage dans la Lune opened in Paris in 1875, every single review mentioned Jules Verne. Verne himself...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2022

LAMPE The Dragon of Wantley

What a surprise! This comic opera, popular in its day, has been languishing as a passing reference in the history...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2022

DONIZETTI La fille du régiment (Spotti)

La fille du régiment, Donizetti’s opéra-comique, receives a Latin American makeover in Luis Ernesto Doñas’s staging for Bergamo’s Donizetti Festival...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2022

On This Shining Night: Music For Voice and String Quartet

Roderick Williams teams up with the admirable Coull Quartet for an uncommonly fine account of Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, which,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2022

Lux aeterna (The Gesualdo Six)

As always with The Gesualdo Six, the thing that strikes one most forcibly on first listening is the ensemble’s extraordinary...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022

Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms (Matthias Goerne)

The transience of human existence is the leitmotif of Matthias Goerne’s latest recital, charting a journey from sleep and oblivion...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022

Fatma Said: Kaleidoscope

Fatma Said’s debut album ‘El Nour’ rightly caused a stir on its release in 2020, earning the Egyptian soprano Gramophone...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

Hildegard Portraits

This is a Hildegard recital with a twist, the life and work of the saint (canonised in 2012) interpreted not...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022

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