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BERG Wozzeck

Everyone involved in this November 2010 live filming from the Bolshoi – Greek conductor, Russian director, Austrian and American leads...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012

Dramma per Musica

A flamboyant star in her native Germany, Simone Kermes is a dangerous, no-holds-barred singer. Like Cecilia Bartoli, whom she often...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW/2012

Amoretti: Arias by Mozart, Gluck, Grétry

Christiane Karg is a young soprano from Bavaria with an impressively varied list of opera performances behind her: Poppea for...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/2012

WEBER Der Freischütz

Claims are made in this set’s handsome booklet for the importance of the ‘pseudo-stereophony’ recording system with which engineer/producer Gerhard...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012

WAGNER Siegfried

Hot on the heels of its complete Ring cycle from Hamburg, Oehms Classics now offers the current Frankfurt staging. In...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW/2012

WAGNER Lohengrin

After a bumpy, uneven ride through Parsifal, Marek Janowski’s new live Wagner cycle continues somewhat more majestically with Lohengrin. I...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012

VERDI Joan of Arc

Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco should come with some sort of ‘surgeon general’s warning’ before anyone hears a note. The real-life Joan...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2012

ROSSINI La scala di seta

There is limited choice for La scala di seta, either on CD or DVD, so it is a shame that...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW/2012

De FALLA La Vida Breve

Expectations can’t run too high in what appears to be the DVD debut of Manuel de Falla’s infrequently performed opera...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2012

CAVALLI La Didone

La Didone is the third of Cavalli’s 27 surviving operas. It was premiered in 1641 at the Teatro San Cassiano,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/2012

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