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SMYTH Der Wald (Andrews)

Der Wald (‘The Wood’) was the second of Ethel Smyth’s six operas and the first of her four one-acters: only...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

SCHREKER Der Schatzgräber (Albrecht)

With over 350 performances across Europe in the first half of the 1920s, Der Schatzgräber (‘The Treasure Seeker’) was not...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023

MOZART Bastien et Bastienne PERGOLESI La servante maîtresse (Jarry)

‘The public came in their droves to hear such delectable songs … finally cement[ing] the era of great revolution in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2023

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Gonzalez Toro; Etienne)

The Homecoming of Ulysses, like its successor The Coronation of Poppaea, is a problem opera. It was first performed in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2023

GLUCK Écho et Narcisse (Niquet)

Écho et Narcisse (1779) was Gluck’s sixth tragédie lyrique for Paris. Produced just four months after the first run of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2023

FUX La corona d’Arianna (Bernardini)

This festa teatrale, composed in 1726 to mark the Empress’s birthday, was staged anew in Graz last year, part of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023

DONIZETTI Don Pasquale (Pidò)

Don Pasquale is a bellwether opera. The time was when it was widely seen as a comic gem – a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2023

DESMAREST Circé (O’Dette; Stubbs)

Hot on the heels of the first recording of Desmarest’s Circé (1694) by Les Nouveaux Caractères comes Boston Early Music...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2023

James Newby: Fallen to Dust

The baritone James Newby’s debut album ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ (1/21) announced the singer as a vividly sympathetic balladeer....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2023

State Choir Latvija: Credo

How the choral music of Richard Strauss, lifelong atheist, has ended up on an album called ‘Credo’, only Hyperion can...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2023

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