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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Golden Cockerel (Altinoglu)

Based on Pushkin’s tale, Rimsky-Korsakov composed his final opera The Golden Cockerel in 1906 07 (it was premiered posthumously) as...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro (Böhm)

The 1954 visit of the Vienna State Opera to London’s Royal Festival Hall with a Mozart/da Ponte cycle on improvised...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018

MOZART Cosi Fan Tutte (Bychkov)

Jan Philipp Gloger’s production of Così fan tutte met with mixed responses when it was unveiled at Covent Garden in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

MEYERBEER Margherita D'Anjou (Luisi)

In tandem with Martina Franca’s Valle d’Itria Festival, Dynamic has produced another live double (CD and DVD, available separately) of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018

MASSENET Werther (Meister)

Massenet’s Werther makes for bleak viewing at the best of times. Goethe’s lovesick poet stumbles around after Charlotte (who’s already...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

HEUBERGER Der Opernball

At last! Anyone fascinated by fin de siècle Vienna will have heard of Richard Heuberger: friend of Brahms and outspoken...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018

GIORDANO Fedora (Galli)

When Daniela Dessì died in August 2016, the opera world lost an Italian spinto in the old-school mould. This Blu-ray...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018

EINEM Der Besuch der alten Dame

In the late 1950s or ’60s, if you were studying for A level, the tragicomedy The Visit of the Old...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018

The Road Home

In the (admittedly unlikely) scenario that an alien landed on earth and demanded to be brought up to speed on...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Mass in G minor (Nethsingha)

‘O radiant Luminary’: composers down the ages have attempted to catch light in music, but the opening of Prayer to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

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