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Diana Damrau: Fiamma Belcanto

Sopranos in Italian repertoire suddenly seem to have been reading Philip Gossett’s Divas and Scholars book. Here, following the work...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015

WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer

Der fliegende Holländer – despite being a ghost story with spectacular outdoor scenes – is essentially a chamber opera about...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015

STRAUSS Feuersnot

Part of the importance of this excellent new recording of Strauss’s second opera lies in the fact that it includes...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2015

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos

Oehms Classics and Oper Frankfurt continue to buck the prevailing record-company trend in releasing primarily CD recordings of its performances....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2015

STEFFANI Niobe, Regina di Tebe

We have only just welcomed the Boston Early Music Festival’s groundbreaking account of Steffani’s Niobe (Munich, 1688), and now another...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015

SALIERI The Chimney Sweep

Premiered at Joseph II’s new German National Theatre in April 1781, Salieri’s The Chimney Sweep (Der Rauchfangkehrer) is an agreeably...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015

PURCELL The Indian Queen

The original play The Indian Queen (1664) was written by Dryden and his brother-in-law Sir Robert Howard; but in 1695...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015

PURCELL The Fairy Queen

How best to tackle Purcell’s so-called semi-operas? The Fairy Queen is an adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the magnificent...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015

MOZART The Magic Flute

Grand picture-book opera or inventive fringe theatre? The Magic Flute’s popularity has seen it inflated for stage spaces too big...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015

MOZART Don Giovanni

This was the first new staging of Don Giovanni at the rebuilt Nationaltheater in Munich. The producer, Günther Rennert, decided...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015

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