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OSTRČIL Jack's Kingdom (Honzovo království)

Usually known in English – if at all – as Johnny’s Kingdom, the satirical fairy tale Honzovo království was the last opera...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017

HANDEL Opera Arias (Jaroussky)

An all-Handel album from Philippe Jaroussky was always waiting to happen. And it’s refreshing that the French falsettist – as much...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2017

GLASS The Trial

Music Theatre Wales’s heartening and astutely developed relationship with Philip Glass is over 25 years old and reached its apex when...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

DVOŘÁK Rusalka

First, a brief geography lesson. Bydgoszcz (nicknamed Little Berlin) is the eighth largest city in Poland, with a population of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

WAGNER Siegfried (van Zweden)

A recent article from the Wagner world drew attention to how pleased the composer was by his children’s reaction to...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2017

VINCI Didone Abbandonata (Ipata)

Leonardo Vinci was a busy bee in the winter of 1725‑26, working simultaneously on three operas: Astianatte for Naples, Didone...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2017

VERDI I due Foscari

It’s little over a year since the last DVD of Verdi’s I due Foscari starring Plácido Domingo and Francesco Meli was...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

STRADELLA Lagrime e sospiri – Opera and Oratorio Arias

Alessandro Stradella’s music is currently enjoying a moment, and not before time. Ensemble Mare Nostrum’s Stradella Project is now four...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017

ROSSINI Demetrio e Polibio

It was in 1809‑10, during Rossini’s final year at Bologna’s Liceo Musicale, that he was invited by the singer-composer Domenico...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2017

PURCELL The Fairy Queen - Lewis and d’Hérin

Anthony Lewis edited The Fairy Queen for the Purcell Society and conducted its first complete recording (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1957). This long-overdue...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2017

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