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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] the dialogue in English (and with surtitles), by Boston Lyric Opera at the Huntington Theatre. Nineteenth century: Some unfamiliar yet often very engaging early nineteenth-century operas got first (or first adequate) recordings, including Meyerbeer’s early Jephtas Gelübde (Jephthah’s Vow, 1812), Cherubini’s 1813 Les Abencérages (of which one tenor aria was previously familiar to opera lovers, from a Roberto Alagna recording), and Il proscritto, an 1842 opera by an important contemporary of the young Verdi, Saverio Mercadante. The Mercadante opera has won the award for best recording of a complete opera at the International Opera Awards. Auber’s Le Philtre (1831), a work whose libretto, adapted to Italian taste, would be set by Donizetti as the still widely loved L’elisir d’amore. Auber’s work is particularly fascinating for this reason, since opera lovers can hear another composer’s very capable and sometimes quite individual responses to the same sequence of dramatic events. It helps […]
2022-07-14 08:00:17
Interior life: Malcolm Martineau and friends in the complete songs of Henri Duparc
[…] Mondonville's Grands Motets - record reviewAdded depth: Julien Van Mellaerts & James Baillieu mix Die schöne Müllerin with the poems not set by Schubert, read by Christopher Purves, to remarkable effect - record reviewArun Ghosh's The Canticle of the Sun at the Spitalfields Music Festival - concert reviewNew ways of working: composer Andrew Chen has two contrasting pieces at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival - interviewUnsung Heroines: Lauren Fagan & Opera Holland Park Young Artists in a celebration of women composers and more - concert reviewAn exciting rediscovery: Mercadante's Il proscritto proves far more than a museum piece in this thrilling revival from Opera Rara - opera reviewHome
2022-07-12 09:29:49
Telling tales of love: Ailish Tynan and James Baillieu at Wigmore Hall
[…] Mondonville's Grands Motets - record reviewAdded depth: Julien Van Mellaerts & James Baillieu mix Die schöne Müllerin with the poems not set by Schubert, read by Christopher Purves, to remarkable effect - record reviewArun Ghosh's The Canticle of the Sun at the Spitalfields Music Festival - concert reviewNew ways of working: composer Andrew Chen has two contrasting pieces at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival - interviewUnsung Heroines: Lauren Fagan & Opera Holland Park Young Artists in a celebration of women composers and more - concert reviewAn exciting rediscovery: Mercadante's Il proscritto proves far more than a museum piece in this thrilling revival from Opera Rara - opera reviewAn afternoon delight: Anna Morrisey's inventive production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville at Nevill Holt Opera, in a finely musical performance conducted by Dinis Sousa - opera reviewHome
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