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Puccini’s Turandot was hardly in need of another recording. Extremely well-served on CD and video ( I recently counted 16 on CD and 14 on
Several recent recordings of Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben featured excellent orchestras giving faceless performances, thanks in no small part to their conductors. Here’s the opposite:
Whenever Martha Argerich is involved you can expect an extra jolt of energy, and so it proves. What’s surprising is that Anthony Pappano keeps up
I due Foscari is Verdi’s other opera about a Doge, this one tricked into believing that his son is a murderer. Unlike Simon Boccanegra, our
I won’t attempt comparisons; they really don’t pay anymore when it comes to Anna Netrebko. And so no mention of Callas in the Wally, Chenier,
King Roger of Sicily is at Mass when word of a man who has been preaching around the countryside arrives. The “heretic”, who calls himself
A Van Cliburn competition silver medalist (not that this means
Jonas Kaufmann has been around now long enough for any glaring faults to have appeared and been criticized; the best we’ve been able to do
This work, in its entirety by Rossini (an earlier version,
This review is going to be a bit more about
