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Karina Gauvin: Nuits Blanches

It was in 2014 that Cecilia Bartoli donned her faux fur hat and headed to St Petersburg to unearth Baroque...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

Aleksandra Kurzak: Desire

For her first solo album in seven years, Aleksandra Kurzak makes a move into some unexpected repertoire. Her previous album...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020

Sarah Traubel: Arias for Josepha

‘A lazy, coarse, shifty character, cunning as a fox’ was Mozart’s crisp verdict on Josepha Weber in a letter to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020

Franco Fagioli: Veni, Vidi, Vinci

Contrary to the chronic pun, Vinci neither composed an opera about Julius Caesar nor conquered Britain – although some of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020

TELEMANN Miriways (Labadie)

In all but name, Miriways is a German-language opera seria, with a happy ending after the characters have confronted –...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2020

STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten (Thielemann)

The Vienna State Opera’s centenary production of Die Frau ohne Schatten last year was inevitably one of the hottest tickets...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020

MONIUSZKO The Haunted Manor (Nowak)

This fantastic series of Moniuszko operas with period-instrument orchestras continues apace with Straszny dwór (The Haunted Manor), a four-act work...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2020

MASSENET Thaïs (Davis)

Made in tandem with concert performances in Toronto last November, Andrew Davis’s recording of Massenet’s great parable about sex and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020

MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana (Janowski)

After recordings of Wagner, Weber and Humperdinck for Pentatone, Mascagni might seem like a bit of a detour for Marek...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020

Samuel Mariño: Care pupille

Since Alfred Deller was ‘discovered’ by Michael Tippett in the 1940s, countertenors have tended to get higher and louder. Many...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020

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