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June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: " Opera Rara, Alexandre Kantorow, Bianco e Falliero, Carry Me Home, Ermione, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hahn: Poèmes & Valses, Harvard University Press, Herbert Blomstedt, Hyperion, Jason M. Rubin, John Higgs, Kendall Square, La donna del lago, Levon Helm, Mavis Staples, MIT Press, Ninja Thyberg, Not Thinking Like a Liberal, Pavel Kolesnikov, Pleasure, Raymond Geuss, Reynaldo Hahn, Robert Buderi, Rossini, Seagull Press, Tapiola Sinfonietta, William Blake vs. The World

Listening During Covid, Part 4: Fascinating Vocal Adventures from Different Times and Places

I may be in quarantine, but music can transport me back to the Middle Ages, or to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia, or, via Donizetti, to an imagined India.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, ATMA Classique, Donizetti, Guillaume de Machaut, Hyperion, Il paria, Karina Gauvin, Ralph P. Locke, The Orlando Consort

Opera Preview: Donizetti’s “The Pariah” — One of the Most Significant Opera Releases of the Past Few Years

The long-forgotten Il paria (1829), a work that Donizetti himself prized more highly than many of his other works, has now been reconstructed by a scholarly team and given a splendid recording.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: " Opera Rara, Albina Shagimuratova, Donizetti, Gaetano Donizetti, Il paria, Sir Mark Elder

Opera Album Review: Ermonela Jaho, a Soprano We Need Today

A world-star soprano, in her magnificent prime at age 36, offers her first recital CD, and you can participate in its online “launch.”

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, Anima Rara, Ermonela Jaho, Orquesetra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ralph P. Locke

Opera Review: A Major Opera by Donizetti — Heard for the First Time!

One of Donizetti’s strongest and most original works, has finally been reconstructed and recorded by superb forces under the remarkable Mark Elder.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, Gaetano Donizetti, Joyce El-Khoury, L’ange de Nisida<, Mark Elder

CD Reviews: Jonas Kaufmann’s “L’Opera” and Michael Spyres’ “Espoir”

Two great tenor discs have recently been released

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, Espoir, Jonas Kaufmann, L’Opera, Michael Spyres, Sony Classical

Classical CD Reviews: Joyce El-Khoury’s “Echo” and Matt Haimovitz’s “Troika”

Soprano Joyce El-Khoury sings spectacularly in her new disc, Echo.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, "Echo, Carlo Rizzi, Christopher O’Reily, Halle Orchestra, Joyce El-Khoury, Matt Haimovitz, Pentatone, Troika

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