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WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Tristan und Isolde)

German opera still seems slower following up its newcomers than its Italian counterpart (unless we’re talking Jonas Kaufmann). This show...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

Olga Mykytenko : I vespri verdiani

‘Is there such a thing as a “Verdian Soprano”?’ asks the booklet to this debut release from Olga Mykytenko. Everyone...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020

VERDI Rigoletto (Mazzola)

There’s no denying the star attraction of Philipp Stölzl’s new Rigoletto for the Bregenz Festival: his €8 million set. Of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin (Vedernikov)

Galina Vishnevskaya, one of the great Tatyanas of the 20th century, vowed never to set foot inside the Bolshoi again...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020

TASCA A Santa Lucia (Frank)

The feared Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick was full of praise for A Santa Lucia but then he was using Tasca’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020

OFFENBACH Un mari à la porte (Galli)

If there’s one thing that last year’s Offenbach anniversary celebrations demonstrated, it’s the sheer inexhaustibility of his well of melody....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020

HANDEL Agrippina (Emelyanychev)

The climax of Handel’s Italian sojourn, Agrippina ran and ran after its sensational Venice premiere early in 1710. As told...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020

EÖTVÖS Tri Sestry (Three Sisters)

After more than 20 years of frequent performances it seems right for the Hungarian composer/conductor Peter Eötvös’s adapted setting of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

CHARPENTIER La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (van Mechelen)

Both of these pieces have been recorded before, but this seems to be the first time that they have appeared...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2020

Une soirée chez Berlioz

The very linking of Berlioz and the guitar still sounds like an improbable answer to a fantasy quiz question. Was...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

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