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VERDI "Traviata - Vous méritez un avenir meilleur"

La traviata has surely been subjected to as many directorial rethinkings as any opera in the repertoire, with Peter Konwitschny’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2020

THOMAS Hamlet (Langrée)

Staged at the Opéra-Comique to mark the 150th anniversary of its premiere in the slightly grander setting of the Opéra,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

ROSSINI Zelmira (Gelmetti)

There is a sense in which Zelmira, the last of Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, premiered in February 1822, is an elegantly...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2020

PAER Agnese (Fasolis)

Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839) is best known nowadays as the composer of Leonora (1804), based on the same subject as Fidelio,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

HANDEL Almira (O'Dette & Stubbs)

Handel’s first opera, Almira (January 1705), is the only one of his juvenile works for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt theatre that survives...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020

DONIZETTI Enrico di Borgogna (De Marchi)

When a director turns an opera eroica into a meta-theatrical farce, one has to question whether she happens to believe...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

Salve, Salve, Salve: Josquin's Spanish Legacy

All roads lead to Josquin, even those routed through the Iberian peninsula. This superb new recording from Owen Rees and...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2020

Fading (The Gesualdo Six)

Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020

The Contrast: English Poetry in Song

Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton’s new album takes its name from the penultimate song of Walton’s A Song for the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

TOMKINS O Give Thanks Unto the Lord: Choral Works

Along with Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons (and, later, Purcell), Thomas Tomkins was a member of the Chapel Royal – the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020

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