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The newest role Elı-na Garan∂a has added to her stage repertoire is Léonor in Donizetti’s La favorite. This recital, though,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2017
Rudolf Kempe (here caught in his second of four Bayreuth Ring years) is not a pusher nor a prodder nor...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2017
Pergolesi had weightier operatic ambitions than the buffet-sized buffo of La serva padrona. In 1734 he served up the elaborate...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2017
No, this is not Fedora. The Italian title masks the identity of Phaedra, wife of Theseus, whose passion for her...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2017
Michael Nyman’s 1986 opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is, like other minimalist stage works, a...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2017
For the near future Regula Mühlemann’s diary looks to be dominated by Bach and Mozart. The forthcoming concert performances of...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2017
Can the Orpheus and Eurydice legend be dramatised without lyricism? Nowadays, in this pluralistic era where no single aesthetic reigns,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017
The innovations of Niccolò Jommelli (1714 74) transformed mid-18th-century Italian opera just as much as Gluck’s slightly later so-called reforms,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
Premiered in Avignon in August 1976, then toured across six European countries for two months before selling out New York’s...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
'Simple but not unintelligent’ is how tenor Lawrence Brownlee describes his L’elisir d’amore character Nemorino, which summarises his approach to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017
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Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
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