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Samuel Mariño: Sopranista

Samuel Mariño is a true male soprano: his chest voice goes all the way up (and up and up –...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Barenboim)

Neither conductor Barenboim (with several decades’ performances) nor stage director Tcherniakov (two previous productions) are beginners with this piece, and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2022

VERDI Don Carlo (Haitink)

Luchino Visconti’s 1958 production of Verdi’s Don Carlo for Covent Garden was a talismanic event in the Royal Opera’s history....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2022

ULLMANN Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Hahn)

The circumstances of the composition of Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis – within the artistic ghetto of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

MOZART Lucio Silla (Equilbey)

The success of Mozart’s first opera seria, Mitridate, for the ducal theatre in Milan, led immediately to a second commission....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2022

HANDEL Rodelinda (Cummings)

Perhaps it was the superficial similarity to Fidelio – a virtuous wife unwavering in heroic devotion to her husband –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022

DORÁTI Der Künder (Fischer-Dieskau)

'Composing conductors are a suspicious lot,’ Antal Dorati remarked in his 1979 memoir Notes from Seven Decades, which placed him...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2022

BELLINI I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Wellber)

This has taken a few years to hit the shelves. Arnaud Bernard’s staging of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022

Bryn Terfel: The Verbier Recital

We’re lucky to have several early recordings of Bryn Terfel singing lieder – including a handsome Liederkreis (DG, 5/00) –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022

Oh, ma belle brunette

Prolific representations of pastoral life are sometimes dismissed as whimsy, especially when the members of the nobility were masquerading as...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2022

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