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MONTEVERDI The Coronation of Poppea (Helyard)

Pinchgut Opera’s 2017 staged production has several singers doubling up in multiple roles, which is likely the same sort of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2019

KÁLMÁN Ein Herbstmanöver

You can’t have Viennese operetta without gold braid, frogging and moustachioed cavalry officers, and Kálmán’s ‘military operetta’ Ein Herbstmanöver is...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2019

GRANADOS Goyescas (Pons)

In purely dramatic terms, Goyescas doesn’t amount to much: its plot is threadbare and its characters are little more than...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2019

EINEM Der Prozess (Gruber)

Literaturoper is what German writers (not uncritically) named a growing school of 20th-century composers who set librettos taken from compressed...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2019

DONIZETTI; VERDI Opera Arias (Michael Fabiano)

In some respects, Michael Fabiano was famous before he was famous. In 2009 he appeared in Susan Froemke’s feature documentary...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2019

BIELAWA Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser

The origins of Lisa Bielawa’s video opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser reach back to the 1990s....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri (Vocal Collector)

Little is known about the origins of Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri. It is cast as a cycle of seven cantatas...

Reviewed in issue 07/2019

Elīna Garanča: Sol y vida

So it’s vacation time for the Latvian mezzo. Sun, sea and seduction. True love may never run smooth but it...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2019

Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria

One of the outstanding composers of the mid-15th century, Walter Frye holds a special place in The Binchois Consort’s repertory....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2019

Locus iste

As the title suggests, the latest recording from St John’s College, Cambridge, is all about the spirit of place. This...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019

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