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LEVINAS La Métamorphose

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s unnerving tale of man transformed into a cockroach, is a gift to a composer as imaginative...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2012

GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice

Composed in broad strokes and paced with contemplative majesty, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is an obvious choice for the strong-minded...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012

DONIZETTI Lucrezia Borgia

This was the second opera that Donizetti composed to a libretto based on a drama by Victor Hugo. And he...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012

CATEL Sémiramis

If you love the operas of Cherubini and Berlioz – the latter, at least, would not have found that an...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH The French Suites

Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

VERDI Simon Boccanegra

Whatever one thinks of Plácido Domingo’s assumption of the baritone title-role of Simon Boccanegra, he has decidedly raised the opera’s...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012

STRAUSS Salome

‘We await a gripping modern Salome on DVD’: that was Mike Ashman’s verdict on the 2007 La Scala production (TDK,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2012

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos

A Karl Böhm Ariadne is not news. There are four predecessor competitors currently still available (a 1969 DG LP set...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2012

NEBRA Iphigenia en Tracia

And what, you may well ask, is Iphigenia doing in Thrace? Hoping to intercept Orpheus, before he is torn to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012

MOZART The Magic Flute

William Kentridge’s production of Die Zauberflöte was first seen at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2005. Since then it has...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012

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