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MERCADANTE Francesca da Rimini

This is a surprise: the first-ever production of Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini, given last year at the opera festival in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2017

Queens - Opera arias by Handel

Few sopranos are better equipped to sing this repertoire stylishly, attractively and with subtle characterisation than Roberta Invernizzi. ‘Queens’ presents...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2017

HANDEL Catone

Metastasio’s drama about the Roman patriot Cato’s preference to commit suicide rather than submit to the dictator Julius Caesar was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2017

Camilla Tilling sings Gluck and Mozart Arias

It is extraordinary to think that a generation or two ago Gluck’s tragic heroines were being sung by sopranos such...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2017

BELLINI Adelson e Salvini

Vincenzo Bellini’s first opera Adelson e Salvini is a real rarity – so the perfect candidate for an Opera Rara...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2017

VERDI Un ballo in maschera

Heike Scheele’s design for Munich’s new 2016 Ballo takes no prisoners in terms of stage direction-obeying literalism. We get an...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2017

Heroines of Love and Loss

Ruby Hughes is a young soprano who won both first prize and the audience prize at the London Handel competition...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2017

HAYDN The Seasons (in English)

‘Haydn is writing with new zeal since he has had the good fortune to lose his nasty wife’, noted the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 14 & 23

The still-young winner of the 2006 Leeds Competition presented his Beethoven credentials more than impressively with the Hammerklavier and Waldstein...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017

Bach Reimagines Bach

‘So here are 3 degrees of reimagination for your consideration. My own minimalist effort, Bach’s mild refashioning of BWV1006 with...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2017

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