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Pretty Yende: A Journey

Ignore the feel-good title and the fluffy booklet-note, and what you have here is actually a serious recital from an...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016

WAGNER Die Walküre

The second instalment of Naxos’s live Hong Kong concert Ring is more compelling than last year’s respectable but careful Das...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2016

RACHMANINOV Troika

To see any of Rachmaninov’s three one-act operas staged in the opera house is a rare enough event but to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

PEPUSCH Venus and Adonis

Music in England between Purcell’s death and Handel’s arrival 15 years later remains a black hole except to a handful...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2016

Pavol Breslik : Mozart

Pavol Breslik, the Tamino on the Simon Rattle/Robert Carsen DVD of Die Zauberflöte from Baden-Baden (EuroArts, 12/13) here presents a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2016

MOZART Don Giovanni

The previous instalments in Theodor Currentzis’s survey of the Mozart-da Ponte operas tended to be enthralling and exasperating by turns....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016

LALO/ COQUARD La Jacquerie

First performed in Monte Carlo in 1895, La Jacquerie is almost invariably described as Lalo’s last opera, though the bulk...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016

GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila

As the curtains part during Glinka’s whiplash Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila, the Bolshoi audience breaks into applause. Is it...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

BRITTEN A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Only 300 people could fit into Aldeburgh’s tiny Jubilee Hall for the premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1960....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2016

BERG Wozzeck

Wozzeck sees red: the red moon; a bloody knife; flames in the sky. Zurich Opera’s production, directed by Andreas Homoki,...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2016

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