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WAGNER Lohengrin

When Orfeo’s Bayreuth series was first launched a decade ago, orchestral representatives at the Festival were especially keen to see...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2012

WAGNER Götterdämmerung

It is a curious story. It’s 1956. A major record company, which already has three ‘live’ Bayreuth Götterdämmerungs in its...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2012

VIVALDI Opera Arias

‘A journey of love, fear, rage and despair’, proclaims Fabio Bonizzoni, with no hyperbole. Once or twice – say, in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012

VERDI Macbeth

A ruffian who rose too far, too fast? Or a more cultivated Scotsman who might have been king anyway but...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin

Memories and fantasies, in olden and modern times, all mingle and collide in this Stefan Herheim production of Eugene Onegin...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012

ROSSINI Le comte Ory

‘What musical riches!’ exclaimed Berlioz when he first set eyes on Rossini’s last and most subtly wrought operatic comedy in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2012

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Though the emotional temperature of this Marriage of Figaro video runs high, warming up to it may take a while....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012

MOZART Apollo et Hyacinthus, K38

As a nine-year-old in London, Mozart displayed his innate theatrical flair in a series of operatic improvisations that astonished the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012

GLUCK Il Trionfo di Clelia

‘Lars Porsena of Clusium / By the Nine Gods he swore / That the great house of Tarquin / Should...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2012

VINCI Artaserse

The rehabilitation of Leonardo Vinci (c1696-1730) has been long overdue. He trained at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2012

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