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As usual with this subject matter, Orlando is the knight nobly torn between love and war, and Alcina is theoretically an evil sorceress. Orlando goes
In his 1994 Yizkor Requiem, subtitled A Quest for Spritual Roots, Thomas Beveridge combines the memorial services of the Jewish Yizkor and the Catholic Requiem
This muddy-sounding air check from September 19, 1958 is being touted as a rare opportunity to hear the fine Dutch soprano Gré Brouwenstijn as Fidelio,
John Butt and his Dunedin Consort & Players are back with another large-scale Bach masterpiece, performed in accordance with Joshua Rifkin’s fascinating, exhaustively-researched arguments for
Although neither Edmund Rubbra nor Patrick Hadley is a major name in the history of choral music, programming these two 20th century British composers together
Neither of these works lacks for fine recordings, but Valery Gergiev’s Les Noces is right up there with the best. It has the one quality
It is now believed that when Verdi said he wanted an “ugly voice” for Lady Macbeth he was overstating his case: what he did not
For the first new production of Verdi’s great Otello at Salzburg since Herbert von Karajan’s in 1970, perhaps the only living conductor with as fierce
This 65-minute opera by English composer Judith Weir premiered in 1994 in London; it was shown in Santa Fe soon after. Weir studied composition with
These are beautiful works, and they receive very good performances. David Hill digs into the war music of Dona nobis pacem quite effectively (save for
