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Maria di Rohan, one of Donizetti’s last operas, is also one of his leanest. It was composed for Vienna in 1843 for an audience that
This performance is of a 2006 revival of Giorgio Strehler’s 1980 production of Le nozze di Figaro, with Ezio Frigerio’s sets and Franca Squarciapino’s costumes.
Haydn’s Mass in Time of War is known in Germany as the Paukenmesse (Timpani Mass), owing to Haydn’s extraordinarily ominous use of solo drums in
You want to like this beautifully recorded Meistersinger, and there’s nothing really wrong with it: Marek Janowski knows the piece and clearly loves it, and
So close, yet so far. Hans Graf leads an expertly paced, beautifully played performance. The solo winds of the Houston Symphony distinguish themselves throughout, and
This strange bird is worth hearing. While the last 35-or-so years have been involved with discovering–through research and guesswork–how early music actually sounded, this is
Director Martin Kusej has been responsible for one of the worst Don Giovannis I’ve ever seen (Salzburg, 2006–Decca DVD) and the best Lady Macbeth of
This is an important re-release of a 2003 recording that originally appeared on Philips. Iván Fischer (who speaks the opera’s prologue quite beautifully and poetically)
I was very taken with the Walküre from this same source, praising in particular the conducting of Simone Young. Again here, in the Cycle’s final
A set like this reveals tellingly the beneficial side of the period-performance movement. There are things that Riccardo Chailly does that likely never would have
