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SUPPÉ Il Ritorno del Marinaio

Who knew that Franz von Suppé, composer of operettas (Die schöne Galathee, Boccaccio) and overtures (Poet and Peasant, Light Cavalry),...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2017

ROSSINI Bianca a Falliero

Bianca e Falliero is a magnificent opera. Written for La Scala, Milan, in the autumn of 1819 at the high noon...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017

ROREM Our Town

By all rights, Ned Rorem’s musical setting of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town should make for a perfect opera. Rorem is...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2017

MOZART Arias (Juan Diego Flórez)

Juan Diego Flórez’s last operatic album, ‘L’Amour’ (Decca, 6/14), took him forwards in time from his bel canto basecamp into...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2017

MOZART Don Giovanni (Solti, Live)

Considering that the London Philharmonic has been Glyndebourne’s resident orchestra since 1963, it’s surprising that Georg Solti never conducted the orchestra there given...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2017

MOZART Così fan tutte (Philippe Jordan)

Practise some patience with this one. In selecting choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to direct its new production of Così fan...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2017

LEHÁR Die Juxheirat

It’s 1904 and Selma, a wealthy but man-hating widow, is embroiled in a farcical tangle of misplaced affections and cross-dressing as...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2017

HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel

Where do you turn after taping the complete mature operas of Richard Wagner? To the man who contributed the very...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017

HEGGIE It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s interesting – and revealing – that Pentatone has a designated ‘American Operas’ series. It’s an acknowledgement, if you like, that there is something very...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2017

HANDEL Parnasso in festa

Handel’s serenata about the marriage of Peleus and Thetis being celebrated by Apollo and the Muses on the slopes of Mount...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017

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