Verdi & Puccini

Thrilling in a generalised way, there are no true insights here, apart from Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene. Diction is cloudy, volume usually high and the accompaniment noisy. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:54 pm

COMPOSERS: Verdi & Puccini
LABELS: Decca
ALBUM TITLE: Verdi & Puccini Arias
WORKS: Arias
PERFORMER: Sylvia SassLSO/Lamberto Gardelli
CATALOGUE NO: 475 6415

Thrilling in a

generalised way, there

are no true insights

here, apart from

Lady Macbeth’s

sleepwalking scene. Diction is

cloudy, volume usually high and

the accompaniment noisy.

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.

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