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Sir Antonio Pappano records Puccini’s Turandot for Warner Classics – with Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho and Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Mar 12, 2023 | Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

This tremendous Turandot is superbly conducted, played, sung, and recorded (well-judged balance, depth of perspective, clarity, unstinting impact). It also has a USP: the “first complete recording with the original Alfano ending” (Puccini died with the...

English National Opera – Wagner – The Rhinegold – John Relyea, Leigh Melrose & Frederick Ballentine; directed by Richard Jones; conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Feb 20, 2023 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews

Saturday, February 18, 2023 The Coliseum, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Richard Jones’s Ring for English National Opera began last year, for no apparent reason with the cycle’s second instalment, The Valkyrie, and with its intended circle of fire at its climax...

London Symphony Orchestra – Simon Rattle conducts Janáček’s Katya Kabanova, with Amanda Majeski.

Jan 14, 2023 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Friday, January 13, 2023 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed This concert presentation (the second of two) of Kát’a Kabanová (Katya Kabanova) from the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle, with Amanda Majeski in the title role, was one of the great Janáček...

Coming this Friday (the 13th @ 7.00 p.m.) on BBC Radio 3, Martyn Brabbins conducts English National Opera in Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana.

Jan 10, 2023 | News, Opera Reviews

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ch3r Curtis Rogers’s review of the December 8 performance:...

English National Opera – Martyn Brabbins conducts a semi-staged performance of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana – with Christine Rice, Robert Murray & Duncan Rock; directed by Ruth Knight.

Dec 9, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo of Christine Rice as Elizabeth I by Nirah Sanghani Thursday, December 8, 2022 The Coliseum, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers This one-off, semi-staged performance of Gloriana was originally planned to serve as a tribute to Elizabeth II in her Platinum...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Iannis Xenakis’s Empreintes, Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Symphony in One Movement, and Luigi Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero (The Prisoner). Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Sep 17, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-70) Saturday, September 17, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin This enticing programme opened with a work by centenary composer Iannis Xenakis, Empreintes (1975), written specifically for eighty-five musicians...