Emily Magee reviews
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Emily Magee, Roberto Aronica, Claudio Sgura, Bruno Lazzaretti, John Paul Huckle; Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo/Juraj Valčuha; dir. Hugo de Ana (Dynamic; DVD)
Wagner: Die Walküre (ROH/Pappano)
Nina Stemme, John Lundgren, et al; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden/Antonio Pappano (Opus Arte / DVD)
An iconic staging of Wagner’s Die Walküre
The cast in this 2018 staging would have been the envy of every world class opera company. The result is just short of perfection
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts Strauss's Salome
Some claim that Richard Strauss’s Salome is a symphonic poem with voices added. That’s how Andrés Orozco-Estrada interprets it, missing the essential drive of the operatic narrative. True, many of the motifs are orchestrally led, but quite a few fit the words (‘Er ist schreklich’ – ‘he is horrible’, as Salome sings of John the Baptist; or ‘Gib mir den Kopf des Jokanaan’ – ‘give me the head of Jokanaan’).