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The works of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) are rarely played despite the fact that she was the first woman to have an opera, Der Wald,
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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
Passionate admirers of FroSch know that when a new recording arrives it has to be heard immediately. The work is so gigantic, with so many
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This tight, creepy opera from 1987 is marvelously economical and enormously effective. Scored only for string quintet, three winds, (a very effective and unexpected) horn,
Mark Elder and the Hallé complete their Wagner Ring Cycle with Siegfried, which, like its predecessors, stems from concert performances in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Handel’s Agrippina is a veritable fiesta of sly manipulation and corruption. Almost every character lies to every other and the result is a wicked comedy
The title of Alice Cooper’s 1971 album “Love It to Death” all too often applied to Reginald Goodall’s conducting of Wagner. He favored slow tempos
