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Review of Romantique

Romantique

Donizetti’s La favorite is better known as La favorita; but, like The Sicilian Vespers and Don Carlos, it’s a French...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2013

Review of Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens

Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens

It seems Joyce DiDonato possesses a sense of humour. Following on from a cross-dressing album entitled ‘Diva/Divo’ (4/11), now we...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013

Review of WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen

WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen

Ever since Eduard Hanslick’s complaints of too much talk of steam and dragons (at Das Rheingold’s Munich premiere in September...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013

Review of Villazon sings Verdi

Villazon sings Verdi

It was good to see and hear this tenor back in action at the end of 2012 with this not-so-everyday...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta STRAVINSKY Perséphone

TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta STRAVINSKY Perséphone

With Gerard Mortier at the helm, the Teatro Real de Madrid is going from strength to strength. Iolanta, a one-act...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2013

Review of R STRAUSS 3 Hymns. Opera arias

R STRAUSS 3 Hymns. Opera arias

Ten years ago Soile Isokoski won the Editor’s Choice Gramophone Award for Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder (4/02) and this follow-up...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2013

Review of STRAUSS Arabella

STRAUSS Arabella

Arabella’s premiere in 1933 in Dresden marked a return to fortune for Strauss and Hofmannsthal after the mixed receptions of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2013

Review of PUCCINI Tosca

PUCCINI Tosca

Hot on the heels of Il trittico from Opus Arte comes another Puccini DVD from the Royal Opera, this time...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2013

Review of PUCCINI Suor Angelica

PUCCINI Suor Angelica

Separate recordings of Suor Angelica outside the trilogy of Il trittico are few and far between. Generally regarded as the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2013

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Review of MOZART Don Giovanni

MOZART Don Giovanni

Unlike Joseph Losey’s famous (but seriously overrated) 1979 film (Second Sight, 4/08), this is not a ‘straight’ screen adaptation of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013

 

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