
With its qualities of intelligent, impassioned conducting married to polished […]
[A re-post from our archives, in memorial tribute to Renata Scotto, February 24, 1934–August 16, 2023] Jon Vickers was, and remains, the greatest Peter Grimes
Recorded between 1984 and 2013, these 10 CDs represent the opera singers who appeared on the Capriccio label–some famous, some borderline, a few already forgotten,
How is it possible that this 40-year-old performance got by me? With the great Riccardo Muti, three of my favorite singers (at the time), and
Giuseppe Sinopoli specialized in romantic Italian opera starting with Verdi;
Carlo Maria Giulini had a remarkable career. Not known for
Arturo Toscanini was the most important, highly acclaimed conductor of
At long last, Australian Eloquence’s highly anticipated Igor Markevitch Philips
I was much taken by Lise Davidsen’s first CD (see reviews archive) and am equally impressed by this, her second. I compared her there to
One approaches a CD of arias by a soprano with something akin to trepidation as soon as one spots that the opening and closing arias