Conductor René Jacobs restores missing bits of this beloved opera’s story, and Ukrainian soprano Kateryna Kasper glows as Ännchen.
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Opera Album Review: An Enchanting New Recording of a Short Vivaldi Opera about … the River Seine
Revelations continue: a composer best known for his sonatas and concertos (the Four Seasons) is a master of vocal music as well.
Opera Album Review: A Powerful New Recording of an Opera from the Terezin Concentration Camp
I know no more thoughtful disquisition, for the opera stage, on basic questions of life, death, war, love, power, and resistance.
Opera Album Review: Odyssey Opera’s Invaluable World-Premiere Recording of Saint-Saëns’s Complete “Henry VIII”
Gil Rose’s team, headed by an incandescent Ellie Dehn as Catherine of Aragon, should help bring this major work back to the world’s opera-house stages.
Opera Album Review: An Opera by a Scandalous — and Murdered — Composer Is Brought Back to Life
Alessandro Stradella’s Loving and Pretending (caa. 1676) gets a lively, precise, and characterful performance in this world-premiere recording.
Opera Preview: A Rachmaninoff Triple-Header!
Odyssey Opera, and major singers from Ukraine and Russia, bring the great Russian composers’s three one-act operas to Jordan Hall on Sunday, September 25.
Opera Review: Saint-Saëns’s “Phryné” — Short and Witty, and Rediscovered
A one-hour opera that the world forgot — a world-premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’s Phryné.
Opera Album Review: From Fascist Italy — With Love?
An opera from Fascist Italy, Gino Marinuzzi’s Palla de’ Mozzi receives a splendid world-premiere recording. Should you listen despite its pedigree?
Opera Album Review: Richard Flury, A Swiss Composer You Should Know About
A world-premiere recording of Richard Flury’s fascinating 1935 opera about love, deceit, and the possibility of forgiveness.
Classical Album Review: Short Can Be Good — Three Splendidly Varied One-Act Operas by Lennox Berkeley
I was pleased to encounter all three compact operas. Lennox Berkeley seems to me more and more an admirable, indeed lovable composer, and a bit of a chameleon. I like him in all his various colors.