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SAINT-SAËNS La princesse jaune (Hussain)

Premiered at the Opéra-Comique 1872, in a double bill with Bizet’s Djamileh, La princesse jaune was the first of Saint-Saëns’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021

JOMMELLI Il Vologeso (Page)

Il Vologeso was composed towards the end of Jommelli’s time as Ober-Kapellmeister at the court of the Duke of Württemberg....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2021

HOFMANNSTHAL Jedermann (Ensemble 013)

The irony would not have been lost on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, inveterate snob and Anglophile, that his Freudian updating of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021

GLASS Akhnaten (Kamensek)

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, priests, ceremony, death and … juggling? Is this a Regietheater staging of Aida set in a circus?...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2021

BERNSTEIN Candide (Alsop)

Absence doesn’t make the heart grow any fonder of this performance. I saw it live in 2018 and it was...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2021

BELLINI I Puritani (Orbelian)

As Delos’s gushing booklet note makes clear, this new release of Bellini’s swansong is focused around its two American leads,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2021

Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene

This might be the most serene apocalypse you’ll hear. In ‘Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene’, the soprano Renée Fleming reflects...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2021

Josquin's legacy (The Gesualdo Six)

This is an inventive piece of programming, combining the very well known and the nearly obscure: aside from Ockeghem’s Intemerata...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2021

Emily D'Angelo: Enargeia

Whisper it quietly for now, but Emily D’Angelo is already well on the way to becoming the complete singer. Her...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2021

Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia

Well, this is rather gorgeous. The ‘Adriatic Voyage’ of this collaboration between Rory McCleery’s Marian Consort and Bojan Čičić’s Illyria...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2021

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