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Pace e Guerra

The Swiss-American countertenor Terry Wey has taken roles in a number of Baroque opera recordings, as well as some Bach...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2017

Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live

When the South African tenor Johan Botha died in September last year, the opera world lost one of its most...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017

WAGNER Parsifal (Elder/Hallé)

Wagner’s final masterpiece has been well served on disc over the last few years, with new sets from Marek Janowski...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017

VERDI Otello

Audiences at the Festival Castell de Peralada are evidently less concerned than many in the 21st-century opera world about how...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017

VERDI Un ballo in maschera

In the last decade or so Covent Garden has hosted two pretty dismal passes at Verdi’s conspiracy thriller – three...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2017

RAVEL L'Heure Espagnol

Smut and sophistication rub shoulders in Ravel’s wonderfully sardonic sex comedy, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1911. It’s a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017

MOZART Mitridate, re di Ponto

Defeated by Pompey and sending a report of his own death, Mitridate returns to his kingdom to find that his...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2017

MAYR Telemaco

Premiered at La Fenice in 1797, when Venice was occupied by Napoleon’s troops, Simon Mayr’s take on the Telemachus-Calypso legend...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2017

GRAUN Opera Arias

The name Carl Heinrich Graun won’t be familiar to many opera-goers – or indeed many singers. He was Kapellmeister to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2017

BENJAMIN Into the Little Hill

Nimbus’s latest George Benjamin disc has no unrecorded works but does make a rounded and absorbing programme. Good to have...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017

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