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RESPIGHI La campana sommersa (Renzetti)

Successful during Respighi’s lifetime in both Europe and the United States, La campana sommersa was first performed in Hamburg in...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

RAMEAU Le Temple de la Gloire (McGegan)

Le Temple de la Gloire is an opéra-ballet to a libretto by Voltaire, first performed at Versailles on November 27,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2018

MOZART La Clemenza di Tito (Ticciati)

Claus Guth’s staging of La clemenza di Tito takes place entirely within a split-level set: the private scenes of emotional...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018

KÜNNEKE Heart Overboard

Operetta composers confronted the jazz age in different ways. Prince Sándor in Kálmán’s Die Herzogin von Chicago actually outlaws the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2018

HALÉVY La reine de Chypre (Niquet)

Fromental Halévy (1799-1862): not a name one comes across very often. But he was a key figure, with Meyerbeer, in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2018

FLOTOW Martha (Weigle)

It’s a strange libretto, like a mixture of Lessing and early French light opera. Its political correctness – in ‘the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018

BATES The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs was premiered in Santa Fe last year. Setting a libretto by Mark Campbell,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

Statements: Choral Music from Yale University

For their Naxos debut, Jeffrey Douma and the Yale Choral Artists perform music by three Yale composers that projects seriousness...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2018

Parts to Play

I decided to review Moonkyung Lee’s mixed programme blind, listening and responding without knowing the composers’ identities beforehand. The opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018

if there were water: MINAKAKIS Crossings Cycle

The Crossing, a chamber choir based in Philadelphia, goes where other such ensembles might fear to tread. Led by Donald...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2018

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