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Veronika Dzhioeva: Ritorna vincitor!

Though it clocks it at just under an hour, there’s plenty of bang for your buck in this high-voltage recital...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: AW2019

WEBER Oberon (Hofstetter)

How best to perform Oberon, Weber’s three-act Romantic opera crossed with Singspiel? It was originally sung in English, composed for...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2019

RUDERS The Thirteenth Child

The Thirteenth Child (2016) is Poul Ruders’s fifth opera and the third issued on disc. After The Handmaid’s Tale (1998;...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

ROSSINI L’italiana in Algeri (Spinosi)

Cecilia Bartoli’s long established collaboration with stage directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier has yielded some memorable results but none...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2019

Levy Sekgapane: Giovin fiamma

True Rossini tenors are a rare breed. Applicants require a light tenor, pingy top notes and florid ease through the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2019

PUCCINI Le Willis (Elder)

When Opera Rara gave a concert performance of Puccini’s Le Villi in London in late 2018 with Mark Elder and...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: AW2019

MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Nézet-Séguin)

Six down, with Idomeneo – one hopes – still to come. Once again, Yannick Nézet-Séguin proves himself to be a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2019

Libertà! Mozart Et L'opéra (Pygmalion/Pichon)

Are upmarket compilations becoming a trend? An early example is Marc Minkowski’s Rameau disc ‘Une symphonie imaginaire’ (Archiv, A/05). When...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2019

KORNGOLD Das Wunder der Heliane (Albrecht)

You may have objections to the piece itself. Described in advance by Korngold as his ‘greatest’ work, Heliane’s Miracle (1927)...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2019

GOUNOD Faust (Matvejeff)

The popularity of Gounod’s Faust in the half-century or so since its unveiling was such that New York’s Metropolitan Opera...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019

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