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WEBER Euryanthe (Trinks. Stiedry)

Reviews of Weber’s follow-up to Der Freischütz tend to begin with the listener, enchanted all over again by the score’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019

Ildar Abdrazakov: Verdi

Albums devoted to the bass voice aren’t all that common, fewer yet a bass recital devoted to one composer. The...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019

STANFORD The Travelling Companion (Purser)

This is a landmark: the first full-length commercial recording of any of Stanford’s nine completed operas. It’s all the more...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019

SPONTINI Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (Montesano)

Some great operas received disastrous premieres: Il barbiere di Siviglia, where the audience hissed and jeered and a cat wandered...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019

SALIERI La fiera di Venezia (Ehrhardt)

La fiera di Venezia – ‘The fair of Venice’ – is quite different from the operas that Salieri composed for...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2019

ROSSINI Sigismondo (Wilson)

It would appear at first glance that the release of this recording of one of Rossini’s more egregious operas has...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2019

PICKER Fantastic Mr Fox (Rose)

Opera has done much during the past few decades to shed its elite, high-art credentials. In many ways, children’s opera...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2019

Daniel Behle: MOZART - Zero to Hero

‘Zero to Hero’ proclaims Sony of a recital that begins with the ‘loser’ Don Ottavio (is he?) and ends with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019

MOZART Don Giovanni (Montanari)

They really don’t make them like this any more. Recorded in 2015 and now emerging as a tribute to the...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019

GOUNOD La nonne sanglante (Equilbey)

La nonne sanglante is drawn from the (very substantial) subplot of The Monk, the Gothic horror novel by Matthew Lewis....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2019

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