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Rameau Platée

Review: Rameau – Platée

Berta Joncus enjoys a 2024 Versailles take on Rameau’s rarely recorded Platée
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Salieri - Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari (Aparté)

Review: Salieri – Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari 

In his review, George Hall enjoys this stylish, studio take on Salieri’s colourful banned opera, ‘Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari’
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Bartók - Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Pentatone)

Review: Bartók – Duke Bluebeard's Castle

In his review, Christopher Cook is chilled to the bone by a concert take on the Bartók’s nightmarishly blood-curdling masterpiece, Bluebeard
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R Strauss - Arabella (Naxos DVD)

Review: R Strauss – Arabella (DVD/Berlin, 2023)

In his review, David Nice is enthralled by this memorable and moving Berlin staging of Strauss’s colourful opera, Arabella
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The Ghosts of Hamlet - Roberta Mameli

Review: The Ghosts of Hamlet (Roberta Mameli)

Berta Joncus applauds this collection of rare and ravishing Baroque treasures from soprano Roberta Mameli
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Vivaldi 'Arsilda' (Naive)

Review: Vivaldi – 'Arsilda'

In her review, Kate Bolton-Porciatti enjoys an excellent new recording of Vivaldi’s 1716 Arsilda, a Baroque farce with plenty of bravura
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Massenet - Hérodiade (Naxos)

Review: Massenet's Hérodiade (Deutsche Oper Berlin)

This luscious live recording from Berlin breathes great life into Massenet’s overlooked gem, Hérodiade, says Christopher Cook in his review
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Hasse - Serpentes Ignei in Deserto (Erato)

Review: Serpentes Ignei in Deserto (Hasse)

The who’s who of voices in this first recording of Hasse’s operatic Serpentes Ignei in Deserto make it a hit, says Berta Joncus in her review
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Rihm - Jakob Lenz (Oehms)

Rihm: Jakob Lenz (Review)

Small numbers make a big impact in this recording of the late Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz, says George Hall in his review
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Huw Montague Rendall - Contemplation (Erato)

Contemplation (Huw Montague Rendall)

Rising star baritone Huw Montague Rendall impresses in this glorious debut recital, says George Hall in his review
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George Benjamin: Picture a day like this (Nimbus)

George Benjamin: Picture a day like this

Less is more in George Benjamin’s captivating opera Picture a day like this, says Christopher Cook in his review
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Langgaard - Antikrist DVD (Naxos)

Langgaard: Antikrist

George Hall is impressed by this Berlin production of Langgaard’s complex and apocalyptic masterpiece, Antikrist, in this review
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Mezzo Mozart (Aparte)

Mezzo Mozart (Marina Viotti)

Meyerbeer: Le prophète (LSO Live)

Meyerbeer: Le prophète

John Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Review)

Kevin Puts - The Hours (Erato)

Review: Kevin Puts – The Hours

‘…an absorbing, even harrowing, experience' is how John-Pierre Joyce describes Kevin Puts's opera The Hours in his review
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

Bertin: Fausto

Pergolesi Serva Padrona Boston Early Music CD review

Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona; Livietta e Tracollo

Verdi: Ernani

Paderewski: Manru

Handel: Alcina

Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust

Lully: Atys

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