Martin Wåhlberg

Opera Album Review: World-Premiere Recording of a 1760s Opera about . . . Norway

October 24, 2025
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First-rate performances, including by a Norwegian orchestra and conductor plus superb international singers, make this one a winner.

Opera Album: A Deliciously Grisly “Comic Opera” from 1789 — the Year the French Revolution Began

August 4, 2020
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Grétry’s Raoul Barbe-Bleue — the story of the original lady-killer, Bluebeard — receives its world premiere recording and it’s splendid.

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