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BRITTEN A Midsummer Night's Dream

Even more than in Glyndebourne’s other Britten opera releases, the pluses and minuses of live recording are the most important...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2012

BERG Lulu

Patricia Petibon’s Lulu in Oliver Py and Pierre-André Weitz’s Geneva/Barcelona production is surely as complete and dangerous an assumption as...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2012

'Mission' – STEFFANI Opera Arias

Oh my word, what have we here? A fat hardback, stocked with essays on the music, 18th-century diplomacy and the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012

WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

To mount Meistersinger at Glyndebourne, even in its new theatre, is both a significant step further than Tristan and an...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012

VIVALDI L’Oracolo in Messenia

This might seem like yet another unfamiliar Vivaldi opera uncovered but the truth is more complicated. Giacomelli’s setting of Zeno’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012

SMETANA The Bartered Bride

‘Girls seem either to want to marry me or kill me.’ Such is the lament of the beleaguered groom Vašek...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012

ROSSINI Aureliano in Palmira

With its temples, theatre and magnificent colonnaded street, Palmyra, the ‘Bride of the Desert’, is one of the best-preserved cities...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2012

MOZART Don Giovanni

This recording, taken from concert performances in Baden-Baden, is based on the scholarly New Mozart Edition. But it doesn’t follow...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2012

HANDEL Giulio Cesare

Laurent Pelly’s production (Paris, 2011) is set imaginatively in the storeroom of a museum of antiquities, which includes famous classical...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012

HANDEL Alessandro, HWV21

Alessandro (1726) initiated the Royal Academy of Music’s new artistic policy of producing operas designed for a prestigious triumvirate of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012

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