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MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci (Lyniv)

This Cav & Pag might easily pass by unnoticed: recorded live in Graz, it has only one big name to...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

JANÁCEK From the House of the Dead (Young)

Janáček’s final opera From the House of the Dead can be a difficult work to stage. Based on Dostoevsky’s semi-autobiographical...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020

HENZE The Bassarids (Nagano)

Heavy funerary iconography, Rossellini lighting and an unflinching gaze at la famiglia places Krzysztof Warlikowski’s staging of The Bassarids somewhere...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020

GLANERT Oceane (Runnicles)

Detlev Glanert’s ninth and newest opera begins musically at an imagined confluence of the Thames and the Vltava, but the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller: Reine de Coeur

For her debut recital album, the German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller covers a century of song from late Schumann, via early...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

Barbara Hannigan: La Passione

‘A triptych: three images, three perspectives of transfigured nights’ is how Barbara Hannigan describes her second collaboration with the Ludwig...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020

JORDLYS Contemporary Norwegian Songs

Hege Høisæter spent 14 years in the soloist’s ensemble of the Norwegian Opera before her retirement in 2016 and has...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020

Papagena: Hush!

If Papagena were an all-male a cappella ensemble rather than an all-female group they would be household names in the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2020

Stéphane Degout: Epic

Though never just another pretty baritone voice, Stéphane Degout takes his dramatic sensibility to a new level in this ‘Lieder...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2020

The Call of Rome (The Sixteen)

When you think of Roman polyphony you think of balance, order, elegance. Not for Rome’s composers the rougher textures and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020

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