Richard Bonynge conducts Thomas's opera Hamlet

This rare opera needs all the help it can get. Richard Bonynge is so keen merely to nurture the distinguished singers that the work itself languishes as Sutherland and co. make wonderful noises.

Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: October 25, 2018 at 12:16 pm

COMPOSERS: Ambroise Thomas
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Thomas
WORKS: Hamlet
PERFORMER: Milnes, Sutherland, Morris, Conrad, Morgan, Winbergh, Gelling, Lewis, Garazzi, Rouleau; Welsh National Opera/Richard Bonynge
CATALOGUE NO: 482 6455 (1984)

This rare opera needs all the help it can get. Richard Bonynge is so keen merely to nurture the distinguished singers that the work itself languishes as Sutherland and co. make wonderful noises.

Michael Tanner

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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