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PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (Foster)

Following hot on the heels of its recent Fanciulla del West, welcomed in these pages by Mark Pullinger (4/21), Pentatone...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022

MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Jones)

This is a restaging of the production by David McVicar that was first seen in 2003, subsequently issued on DVD....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2022

Elsa Dreisig: Mozart x 3

Anyone who read her interview in January’s Gramophone will have got the message that Elsa Dreisig is a singer who...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022

LEONCAVALLO Zazà (Soltész)

Christof Loy is making a habit of turning pandemic theatre to his advantage. In summer 2020 he conjured up a...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2022

HANDEL Arias (Barnaby Smith)

Voces8’s artistic director, countertenor Barnaby Smith, goes solo here with an album of extracts from Handel’s operas and oratorios, along...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022

BRIAN Faust (Brabbins)

In his final years, the work of his Havergal Brian most wanted to hear was his fourth opera, Faust. His...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022

Taliesin’s Songbook

Champions of Welsh music past and present, the Cardiff-based Tŷ Cerdd label gives us a survey of 20th- and 21st-century...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022

The Hermes Experiment: Song

The Hermes Experiment are a vibrant, deeply musical quartet. Pwyll ap Siôn welcomed their previous album, ‘Here We Are’, as...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022

Francesca Aspromonte: Maria and Maddalena

Soprano Francesca Aspromonte follows her fine recital of Baroque operatic prologues (8/18) with an equally enterprising ‘concept’ album devoted to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022

The Florentine Renaissance (The Orlando Consort)

On their new recording, The Orlando Consort collaborate with musicologist Patrick Macey on works by Dufay and Florentine music composed...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2022

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