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WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Jordan)

In Barrie Kosky’s spirited but uneven 2017 staging of Wagner’s comedy there are splurges of ideas. The performance emerges from...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2018

ROSSINI Aureliano in Palmira (Pérez-Sierra)

The ancient Roman city of Palmyra has been a good deal in the news this past decade. And so, curiously,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2018

MAYR Che originali! DONIZETTI Pigmalione (Capuano)

This is a very apt pairing, as Giovanni Simone Mayr (born Johann Simon Mayr) was one of Donizetti’s teachers, who...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2018

LODER Raymond & Agnes (Bonynge)

Raymond and Agnes. The title doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, nor does it readily suggest an atmosphere of mystery...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

LEHÁR Das Land des Lächelns (Luisi)

‘My dear Richard! Here you have your Tauber-Lied!!’ scribbled Franz Lehár on the score of ‘Dein ist mein ganzes Herz’,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018

HOLTEN Gesualdo Shadows

The year 2017 may have delivered the first opera about Claudio Monteverdi (at least according to the creators of La...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

HANDEL Agrippina (Hengelbrock)

Robert Carsen’s production of Agrippina (Venice, 1709), filmed across two performances at the Theater an der Wien in March 2016,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2018

DONIZETTI La Favorite (Luisi)

Donizetti abandoned work on Le duc d’Albe when the director of the Paris Opéra, Léon Pillet, objected that there would...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2018

SAINT-SAENS Piano Concertos (Lortie; Chamayou)

It is perhaps unfortunate that I began my listening with the second work on Louis Lortie’s disc, the G minor...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2018

Anne Akiko Meyers: Mirror in Mirror

You can rely on Anne Akiko Meyers to deliver something more than a violin concerto with fill-ups, as this latest...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

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