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This performance is oddly dead-in-the-water. You would think that the lovely Natalie Dessay, so expressive, so delicate, would be right for the fragile, loving, innocent
Composed in Rome in 1707, this is Handel’s first oratorio. The title translates as “The Triumph of Truth and Enlightenment”, and the plot, such as
Once again, Domingo surprises us. As Pavarotti pleads to fade into the memory bank, the Spanish tenor keeps working–learning, attempting to get into new idioms,
This new recording of a pair of early Handel cantatas and a lengthy aria from the composer’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (an early serenata not
There ought to be an association for the protection of Natalie Dessay. Music that seems merely virtuosic or (more merely) high when sung by even
Natalie Dessay’s vocal crisis–she was operated on for nodes on her vocal cords three years ago–is clearly over. The voice has ripened somewhat, but don’t
The astonishingly gifted Natalie Dessay continues to please. Her very highest notes–Ds, E-flats, Es–have taken on an edge they previously didn’t have, but it’s not
In 1839 Donizetti had the opportunity to present his by-then famous and popular Lucia di Lammermoor in Paris. Since the available voices were slightly different
Taped at and in conjunction with live performances at the Paris Opera, this “fantastic” Handel opera–one of his finest, by the way–proves to be a
If you’ve been waiting for a really good performance of these two odd little Stravinsky works, wait no longer. Stravinsky’s Rossignol is like Verdi’s Luisa
