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TCHAIKOVSKY The Queen of Spades

While Eugene Onegin is Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera, there’s a fair argument that The Queen of Spades is his best....

Reviewed in issue AW2015

ROSSINI Aureliano in Palmira

‘Who will save Palmyra?’ the maidens cry in Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira. Two hundred years after the opera’s 1813 prima...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2015

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Tsar's Bride

Rimsky-Korsakov’s historical epic The Tsar’s Bride is given the Dmitri Tcherniakov treatment in this compelling production from the Berlin Staatsoper....

Reviewed in issue AW2015

Jonas Kaufmann: Nessun dorma – The Puccini Album

This disc represents the fourth in what is an unorthodox discography being compiled by Jonas Kaufmann on Sony Classical. His...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2015

OFFENBACH La Belle Hélène

Although this comes from Hamburg, it’s La Belle Hélène and not Die schöne Helena. The director-cum-choreographer Renaud Doucet and his...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2015

Christian Gerhaher: Mozart Opera Arias

Christian Gerhaher’s latest album was recorded live in concert in Freiburg earlier this year. Presenting a portrait gallery of Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015

LEO L’ambizione delusa

Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) was regarded by his Neapolitan contemporaries as a learned composer. His contrapuntal abilities are scattered throughout the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015

BATTISTELLI Experimentum Mundi

We all know that modern opera can be hard work; but Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli’s Experimentum mundi – An Experimental...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2015

BARTHOLOMÉE Oedipe sur la route

Not so long ago, many new operas sought gravitas by basing themselves on wordy epics by known contemporary novelists centred...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2015

Helmut C Jacobs: Boleros and Fandangos

This album follows an earlier recording by the same artist, accordionist Helmut C Jacobs, devoted to the fandango. The current...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW2015

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