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Hommage à Trois

The ‘three’ in question are Haydn, Mozart and – courtesy of a large chunk from Il maestro di cappella –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2014

Tito Gobbi: 100th Anniversary Edition

These three BBC episodes of Great Characters in Opera may be old-school in terms of staging and appearance but they...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014

VOGEL La Toison d'or

If you got stuck on the title, as I did, the list of characters provides a clue: it’s ‘The Golden...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2014

VERDI Ernani

With some fine recordings of Verdi’s fifth opera already in the catalogue, this new release from the Austrian Radio archives...

Reviewed in issue 03/2014

SCHREKER Der Schatzgräber

In a bold move, the booklet essay compares Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber (first performed in 1920) with Richard Strauss’s Die...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2014

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro

Teodor Currentzis is the artistic director of the opera house in Perm, on the edge of Siberia. As reported in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2014

DONIZETTI Lucrezia Borgia

Having primarily made her name in lyric Mozart and Strauss operas, Renée Fleming has been returning to the bel canto...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014

BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw

The London Symphony Orchestra’s concert performances of The Turn of the Screw in April last year sadly turned into a...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2014

BIZET Carmen

Carmen live in the open from Sydney Harbour in the Australian summer? Not the most natural of marriages of work...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014

George King: Jubilees

Here are four cycles of short, intelligently crafted and musically refined pieces. The six miniatures that make up Magnus Lindberg’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2014

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