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SALIERI Tarare (Rousset)

Salieri’s Les Danaïdes was such a success when it was staged at the Paris Opéra in April 1784 that the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro (Giulini)

Carlo Maria Giulini’s studio recording of Le nozze di Figaro was made in 1959, the September sessions followed by a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019

MERCADANTE Didone abbandonata (De Marchi)

No 18th-century Italian opera composer worth his salt could resist Didone abbandonata, the libretto that made Pietro Metastasio’s name. With...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019

Duel: Porpora and Handel in London

The existence of two competing Italian opera companies in London during the mid-1730s is a story that is sometimes told...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019

Simone Kermes: Mio caro Händel

Call me jaded, but in a saturated marketplace any new disc of Handel arias needs careful planning. Here we have...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019

DENNEHY The Last Hotel

In hotels things can fall apart. Dramas from Psycho to Peep Show have used hotel rooms as an outer expression...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019

BARBER Vanessa (Hrůša)

Since it was unveiled at last year’s Glyndebourne Festival, Keith Warner’s handsome and perceptive staging of Barber’s Vanessa has probably...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

ARNE The Judgment of Paris

Arne’s The Judgement of Paris, about the notorious mythological beauty contest that eventually provoked the Trojan War, was first performed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

John Williams: Vivaldi etc

What a delight is this sixth and latest release from John Williams’s own JCW Recordings. Indeed, it takes me right...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019

Melvyn Tan: Miroirs

For his latest solo CD, Melvyn Tan offers works by Ravel alongside pieces by other composers that somehow mirror the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

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