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There’s no dearth of fine Orfeo recordings on the market: […]
Delibes’ perfumed score for Lakmé is somewhat of an acquired
Here, in the composer’s most transparent, un-sentimental score, Sinopoli gets
Natalie Dessay remains a phenomenon. She is without a doubt one of today’s great acting singers. She is invariably filled with good ideas that her
This is a strange performance, oddly unsatisfying. Natalie Dessay is a known quantity as Lucia: sensitive, fragile, using her small but colorful voice and sharp
It’s good to have Elijah Moshinsky’s 1993 production of Richard Strauss’ ironically lovely Ariadne on DVD. Michael Yeargan sets the Prologue backstage with scaffolding, ladders,
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
For most of us, there has been only one Marie and one Tonio–Sutherland and Pavarotti. They took their show on the road in the ’70s
It’s rare that sopranos with very slim voices carry real emotional weight, but Natalie Dessay is one that does. Here she sings pretty standard coloratura/bel
Recorded at Barcelona’s Teatro del Liceu over three evenings in June, 2007, David McVicar’s take on Massenet’s Manon, though it looks entirely traditional at first,
