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There’s no dearth of fine Orfeo recordings on the market: […]
British mezzo Alice Coote is a marvelous, refined artist, in the manner of Anne Murray and, to a lesser extent, Janet Baker. Her singing is
Conductor Marc Albrecht launches Das Lied von der Erde with
In Cendrillon by Jules Massenet (1895) Joyce DiDonato again serves notice that she is one of the most treasurable opera singers in the world. She
My first thought upon hearing this Ariadne in English was, “Why isn’t the Prologue always done in the vernacular?” Perhaps it was the presence of
Paavo Järvi almost always has interesting ideas, and this performance is no exception. The Andante features lots of little accents and inflections with no loss
Lucrezia Borgia is not one of Donizetti’s masterpieces, but it nonetheless can be enormously stageworthy. Despite a wonderful piece or two for tenor and baritone
This is a mostly wonderful performance of Verdi’s great comic opera, with singing and playing of a very high order. Paul Daniel coaxes charming, light
Handel’s The Choice of Hercules is a one-act allegorical drama in three scenes, presented in the style of a cantata. The invention of this rather
