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VERDI Nabucco (Ciampa)

The Verdi Festival in Parma produced an austere and compelling production of Il trovatore in 2018 (in the rare French...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2020

SULLIVAN Haddon Hall FORD Mr Jericho (Andrews)

Dutton is spoiling us. Not content to give us the first fully professional recording of Sullivan and Grundy’s ‘original light...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

RESPIGHI La bella dormente nel bosco (Renzetti)

Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty began life in 1922 as a small-scale piece, commissioned by the puppeteer Vittorio Podresca for performance at...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020

LEMOYNE Phèdre (Vashegyi)

The choice of French operas in the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s ‘Book+CD Series’ is wonderfully unpredictable. After Offenbach’s Maître Péronilla, praised...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2020

GASSMANN Opera Arias (Ania Vegry)

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) lists 21 operas by Florian Leopold Gassmann but most readers would be hard-pressed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

Anna Prohaska: Paradise Lost

As one might expect from its Miltonic title, Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake’s ‘Paradise Lost’ takes the Biblical narrative of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020

Véronique Gens: Nuits

A co-production between Alpha and Palazzetto Bru Zane, Véronique Gens’s ‘Nuits’ is basically a recital of mélodies for soprano and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020

Natalya Romaniw: Arion - Voyage of a Slavic Soul

There are few things more satisfying for a critic than watching a promising young singer blossom into a major artist....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

ZELENKA Missa 1724 (Luks)

This imaginary Mass is constructed from motley liturgical pieces created for various unknown occasions during the first half of the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020

VENABLES Love Lives Beyond the Tomb

I’m ashamed to report that this is my first encounter with the music of Ian Venables and it immediately set...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

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