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The Bottom Line: This tribute to the intelligence, musicianship and […]
Please let me make clear that the words “light opera” usually make me cringe, but from the finely orchestrated three-minute overture, which starts demonically, goes
This August, 1976 live performance from Sydney is of course only for Sutherland fans. (It has been available on video for some time but I’m
I believe this is the only note-complete performance of this opera, and furthermore, the only one that is sung in all of the original keys
This overweight bon-bon from 1889 is one of Massenet’s most exotic and lush works, one filled with musical motifs that bring Wagner to mind. It
The bright recording and arrangements (lots of bells, shiny brass) go delightfully with Sutherland’s high-placed voice, at its most fabulous in 1965 when this was
Of the rarities presented in this unusual Russian music collection, the most tantalizing is Gliére’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra. Judging by the slight
Dance fanciers will be pleased to see these two gems freed from Decca’s big box of ballet recordings. John Lanchbery’s arrangement of La Fille mal
Richard Bonynge took a lot of criticism for his lack of experience as a conductor, but he had one sterling quality: he only conducted unusual
This is living proof that all re-discovered masterpieces in fact are not necessarily masterpieces. Some, like this one, aren’t even close. Meyerbeer wrote his Semiramide
