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RAMEAU Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour

The Festivities of Hymen and Cupid started out as a ballet-héroïque in three entrées called The Gods of Egypt. With...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2014

PORPORA Arias

Partnered ably by Academia Montis Regalis, Franco Fagioli sings with fulsome bravado and technical virtuosity in vibrant performances of 12...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

MOZART Desperate Heroines: Opera Arias

‘Desperate heroines’ runs the rubric for what Sandrine Piau dubs ‘a Mozartian “cartography” of the feminine condition’. Desperation is hardly...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2014

MOZART Don Giovanni

Here, only five years after Francesca Zambello’s production (Opus Arte, 7/09), is a new version of Don Giovanni from Covent...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2014

MACMILLAN Clemency

Good ideas are everywhere in Clemency, though that doesn’t mean they’ve translated into a good listening experience in this live...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2014

LULLY Atys

Based on a tale from Ovid, Quinault’s libretto for Atys (1676) was the first collaboration with Lully to eschew comic...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

LULLY Amadis

Quinault’s libretto for Amadis de Gaule (1684) adapts a medieval Spanish tale of a hero who loves the British princess...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

HASSE Marc' Antonio e Cleopatra

Gender-bending, sometimes with an element of titillation, was a commonplace of Baroque opera. When Johann Adolf Hasse’s serenata was staged...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2014

HARTMANN Simplicius Simplicissimus

The four recordings of Hartmann’s second opera between them present three different versions of the work. This latest issue uses...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

HANDEL Faramondo

Nowadays it seems difficult to comprehend why Faramondo (1738) was a marginally stronger success than its close contemporary flop Serse....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2014

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