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VIVALDI Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) RV 703 (Dantone)

Vivaldi’s pasticcio was commissioned by Verona’s Accademia Filarmonico for their recently built theatre during the 1734-35 Carnival. The manuscript score...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2020

ROSSINI Moïse et Pharaon (Carminati)

This latest release from the annual Rossini festival in Wildbad in southern Germany is one of its more successful, and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2020

MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro (Bolton)

Updating Figaro is always likely to minimise the class tensions that underlie this most humane and (potentially) poignant of musical...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

LEHÁR Cloclo (Burkert)

We already know Mlle Cloclo – or do we? Along with Lolo, Margot, Froufrou and the rest, isn’t she one...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020

HENZE Der Prinz von Homburg (Meister)

Henze was 32 in 1958 when he wrote Der Prinz von Homburg, five years into his self-imposed Italian exile and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2020

CESTI La Dori (Dantone)

That Cesti’s La Dori had such a varied performance history says something about the changing tastes of 17th-century opera audiences....

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 11/2020

BRONSART Jery und Bätely

Born in St Petersburg to Swedish parents in 1840, Ingeborg Lena Starck studied piano and composition, completing her studies with...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020

BONONCINI Polifemo (Oberlinger)

A temporary reduction of music-making at the Vienna court during the War of the Spanish Succession prompted a group of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2020

ARNOLD The Dancing Master (Andrews)

Here’s a tonic for a melancholy year: a one-act comic opera by Malcolm Arnold, unstaged in the composer’s lifetime and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020

Sturm und Drang Vol 2: Haydn, Gluck, Vanhal

Ian Page and The Mozartists’ second dip into the Classical-era repertoire subset called Sturm und Drang alights on the sine...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

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