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I doubt that anyone has been waiting for another fine recording of Pelléas et Mélisande. There are several already, many of great quality and all
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,
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is utterly lovable: witty, wise, bawdy, meta, philosophical, whimsical. After a brief run elsewhere its life began in 1956 on Broadway as
Michael Plasson did yeoman work on behalf of neglected French
Most reviews of opera recordings don’t need preambles, but this one (sort of) does: Handel’s Serse (or Xerxes) disappeared from opera stages from its failed
Lisette Oropesa, for all her wonderful coloratura ability and upward extension, is nothing like a soubrette. Her very first notes here, from Le Siège de
Despite, or more possibly because of Claus Guth’s cold, distancing direction on Michael Levine’s even chillier and cruel sets, this performance of Leoš Janácek’s Jenufa,
Riccardo Chailly’s career hopefully still has a ways to go,
One of the last German conductors of the old school,
Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage, a modern retelling of The Magic Flute, is one of the major 20th-century operas. The music is tuneful, lyrical, bursting with
