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Enfers: Famous Opera Scenes by Rameau and Gluck

My advice to anyone buying this excellent disc is to start by ignoring the contents of the booklet (apart from...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2018

Anita Rachvelishvili

Anita Rachvelishvili had the sort of remarkable big break of which young singers can only dream. Aged 25, a member...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2018

WEINBERGER Wallenstein

That it took a Bohemian Jew to bring Germany’s foundational drama of nationhood to the lyric stage was an irony...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde. Parsifal (Solti)

After Solti’s two Strauss one-acters with Birgit Nilsson (10/17), Decca now gives the lavish hi res reissue treatment to two...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2018

SMYTH The Boatswain's Mate

‘I want a great rollicking sound’, Ethel Smyth told the BBC Symphony Orchestra at rehearsals for her 1914 comic opera....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2018

PORPORA Opera Arias (Cencic)

Max Emanuel Cencic, once dubbed by Tim Ashley ‘the cult Croatian countertenor’, brings his trademark mix of flamboyance and sensitivity...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018

MEYERBEER Le Prophète

It’s cruelly ironic that, with Meyerbeer performances still a comparative rarity (apart from, perhaps, in a range of smaller German...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018

GIACOMELLI Fiamma vorace

Max Emanuel Cencic, Cecilia Bartoli and Joyce DiDonato are among the many singers to have recorded arias by Geminiano Giacomelli...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2018

Handel's Last Prima Donna: Giulia Frasi in London

Lest we British get too proprietorial about Handel, it’s worth remembering that his oratorio casts were cosmopolitan right to the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018

Sollazzo Ensemble: Dreams and Visions in the Middle Ages

Sollazzo, whose second recording this is, have been making a name for themselves since their formation in 2014. As with...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2018

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