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Well, we’re safe in the knowledge that Maestro Currentzis has now run out of Mozart-Da Ponte operas. His note-by-note, string-by-string examination of each score has
This, Rossini’s 20th opera, composed for Milan in 1817 while he was in residence composing serious operas in Naples, was an immediate success and ran
Handel’s 1748 oratorio, Joshua, has taken a back seat to Theodora, Samson, Saul, and Hercules, mostly because it simply is not as dramatic and the
Pierre Boulez’s Roméo et Juliette is brilliantly played by the Cleveland Orchestra and conducted with a transparency that allows details to emerge clearly, even in
Composed in 1863 as a commission for a friend who wanted to consecrate a private chapel dedicated to his wife, the Petite messe solennelle is
This live Béatrice et Bénédict is Colin Davis’ third go at recording Berlioz’s beautiful “ugly duckling”. Davis’ first, released almost 40 years ago, was an
