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ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Oren)

The great Italian baritone Leo Nucci is one of music’s indestructibles. How else can one explain a 76-year-old holding spellbound...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2019

MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Carydis)

This production from last year’s Salzburg Festival has much charm but it is fundamentally so wrong-headed that I hardly know...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2019

MARSCHNER Hans Heiling (Beermann)

A spot of research – but not in the regular catalogues – should uncover around half a dozen recordings of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2019

LEHÁR Die lustige Witwe (Malwitz)

The Merry Widow wasn’t born a billionairess, and before Lehár’s masterpiece was a worldwide smash – and long before it...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019

KAMINSKY As One

This is really rather good. Styled a chamber opera, As One (2014) is also a sequence of 15 songs (with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019

FLURY A Florentine Tragedy; The Death of Sappho (Mann)

Puccini and Busoni were among the composers who thought about setting Oscar Wilde’s steamy play A Florentine Tragedy as an...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

DONIZETTI Il Castello di Kenilworth (Frizza)

Bel canto fans talk in reverent terms about Donizetti’s ‘Tudor trilogy’, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux. Beverly Sills...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

CAVALLI L'Ipermestra (Fentross)

Released in the last couple of months, this striking pair of Cavalli recordings were both actually made more than a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2019

VIVALDI Musica sacra per alto. Arie e cantate per contralto (Delphine Galou)

And still they come. Vols 59 and 60 in Naïve’s heroic complete Vivaldi Edition, now seemingly intent on the home...

Reviewed in issue 09/2019

The Pillar of the Cloud

Appointed music director at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 2017, Mark Williams is only now making his first statement with the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

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