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Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea at English Touring Opera | Live Review

Monday, October 2, 2023

| Opera Now

Under a new director, English Touring Opera ascends to great heights musically, even if some dramatic elements have a way to go

Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking at The Metropolitan Opera | Live Review

Review

Thursday, September 28, 2023

| Opera Now

Based on the memoir by Sister Helen Prejean focused on her experiences with prisoners on death row, Jake Heggie's opera opens the Met's 2023/34 season

César Franck: Organ Works

Review

Thursday, September 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Jarosław Tarnawski’s plan to record Franck’s most significant works on organs of appropriate age finds perfect voice in the Cavaillé-Coll of Saint-François-de-Sales, Lyon

Liszt: ‘Consolations’ (Saskia Giorgini)

Review

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| International Piano

Liszt-playing of this order of poetic richness and immediacy is rare indeed and Giorgini’s recording should be in the possession of those who call Liszt’s stature into doubt

Rene Orth: 10 Days in a Madhouse at Opera Philadelphia | Live Review

Review

Friday, September 22, 2023

| Opera Now

A vital new opera from Rene Orth opened Opera Philadelphia's O Festival 2023

John Sheppard: Missa Cantate

Review

Thursday, September 21, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Captivating vistas of the six-voice Missa Cantate appear alongside stunningly inventive examples of chant-based responsories, hymns and votive antiphons

Puccini: Tosca at Northern Ireland Opera | Live Review

Review

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

| Opera Now

An intelligent new production from NI Opera of Puccini's masterpiece is full of vocal intensity

Donizetti and Friends: Opera Rara at Wigmore Hall | Live Review

Review

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

| Gramophone

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Carlo Rizzi present the start to Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project

Rachmaninov: Four Piano Concertos; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43 (Yuja Wang)

Review

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

| International Piano

If there is any pianist who can command the necessary delicacy, power and underlying emotional fervour it is Yuja Wang, united to perfection with Gustavo Dudamel