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DVORÁK The Late Symphonies (Bernard)

Dvořák’s symphonies are well represented in the recording catalogue, with multiple performances – especially of the late symphonies – featuring...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2021

The City of Tomorrow: Blow

The City of Tomorrow are a pioneering wind quintet who like to explore ‘physical movement and spatial relationships’ (aspects not...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021

VERDI Simon Boccanegra (Luisi)

This new film of Simon Boccanegra captures what’s only Christian Gerhaher’s second Verdi role (after Posa in Don Carlo) and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2021

MESSAGER Passionnément (Blunier)

We owe this performance of Passionément to Covid 19, as it happens. Bru Zane’s original intention was to give us...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2021

MAYR Elena (Hauk)

‘Un morceau de génie’ was Stendhal’s verdict on Elena, triumphantly premiered in Naples in January 1814. Like Fidelio, whose final...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021

GOUNOD La reine de Saba (Rose)

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Odyssey Opera specialises in mining the operatic archives to perform rarely heard works. Recent years have...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

GLASS Satyagraha (Anzolini)

How times change! Satyagraha, Philip Glass’s 1979 third opera, was once declared a child of the 1960s with its apparent...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2021

DESTOUCHES Semiramis (Sartre)

This was the eighth of Destouches’s 10 operas and the last of his six tragédies en musique. The libretto was...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2021

CIMAROSA Il Matrimonio Segreto (De Marchi)

First performed at Vienna’s Burgtheater in February 1792 (almost two months to the day after Mozart’s death), Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2021

ABRAHÁM Ball at the Savoy

When does an operetta become a musical? Paul Abrahám’s 1932 jazz operetta Ball at the Savoy – which opened in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021

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