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ROSSINI La Cenerentola (Dante)

This occasionally off-the-wall but finely sung and colourfully staged La Cenerentola was Rome Opera’s first foray into the media market,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2020

OFFENBACH Maître Péronilla (Poschner)

A touch of Hispanic sunshine always suited Offenbach, and having already produced a fine new recording of the South American-set...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2020

MONIUSZKO Flis. Beata

Fabio Biondi’s recording of The Raftsman was made in tandem with concert performances of the work given in Warsaw to...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020

MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci (Lyniv)

This Cav & Pag might easily pass by unnoticed: recorded live in Graz, it has only one big name to...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

JANÁCEK From the House of the Dead (Young)

Janáček’s final opera From the House of the Dead can be a difficult work to stage. Based on Dostoevsky’s semi-autobiographical...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020

HENZE The Bassarids (Nagano)

Heavy funerary iconography, Rossellini lighting and an unflinching gaze at la famiglia places Krzysztof Warlikowski’s staging of The Bassarids somewhere...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020

GLANERT Oceane (Runnicles)

Detlev Glanert’s ninth and newest opera begins musically at an imagined confluence of the Thames and the Vltava, but the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller: Reine de Coeur

For her debut recital album, the German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller covers a century of song from late Schumann, via early...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

Barbara Hannigan: La Passione

‘A triptych: three images, three perspectives of transfigured nights’ is how Barbara Hannigan describes her second collaboration with the Ludwig...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020

JORDLYS Contemporary Norwegian Songs

Hege Høisæter spent 14 years in the soloist’s ensemble of the Norwegian Opera before her retirement in 2016 and has...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020

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