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Ralph P. Locke

Opera Album Review: A Groundbreaking French Grand Opera Recieves Its First Major Commercial Recording

Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable paved the way for major works by Meyerbeer himself, Halévy, Verdi, Wagner (in German), Saint-Saëns, Massenet, and others — and this splendid performance shows why.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra, Bordeaux Opera Chorus, Bru Zane, Erin Morley, Meyerbeer, Ralph P. Locke, Robert le diable

Opera Album Review: A Major Baroque Opera in English Receives a Stylish Recording

Aside from English pronunciation issues, the singers put over this remarkably polished and attractive opera by one of England’s great seventeenth-century composers with great panache, matching the superb instrumentalists.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Ensemble Correspondances, Ensemble Correspondances/ Sébastien Daucé, Harmonia Mundi, Licelot de Wilde, Lucile Richardot, Matthew Locke, Psyche, Ralph P. Locke, Sébastien Daucé

Opera Album Review: A Marvelous New Recording of Rossini’s “The Silken Ladder”– at a Bargain Price

Rossini’s one-act opera from 1812 rings fresh changes on a host of comic-opera clichés.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Kraków Philharmonic, La scala di Seta, Naxos, opera buffa, Ralph P. Locke, The Silken Ladder

Opera Album Review: Can Conductors Compose Well? Consider Mahler, Bernstein, and Now Antal Doráti

This world-premiere recording of a powerfully compelling opera, based on a play by Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, is revelatory.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Antal Doráti, Der Künder, Martin Fischer-Dieskau, Orfeo, Ralph P. Locke, The Herald

Opera Album Review: Meyerbeer’s Comic Opera about Peter the Great, A Welcome Return

This re-release of a superb recording of a major Meyerbeer opera reminds us what treasures are available to opera companies (and college opera programs) willing to step beyond the well-trodden path.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Giacomo Meyerbeer, L’Étoile du nord, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Naxos, Ralph P. Locke, Wexford Festival Opera Chorus

Classical Music Feature: “Best of 2022” — Unusual Operas Plus Some Songs, Choral, and Instrumental CDs

Here’s my list of two dozen superlative operatic offerings of wildly differing kinds, plus some notable non-operatic offerings.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Ralph P. Locke

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.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Munich Radio Orchestra, Patrick Hahn, Ralph P. Locke, Tareq Nazmi, Terezin Concentration Camp, The Emperor of Atlantis, Victor Ullmann

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.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Gil-Rose, Odyssey Opera, Ralph P. Locke

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.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: Aleko, Francesca da Rimini, Odyssey Opera, Ralph P. Locke, The Miserly Knight

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.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Die helle Nacht, Gärtnerplatz Chamber Choir, Göttingen Symphony, Julie Sophie Wagner, Paul Mann, Ralph P. Locke, Toccata

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