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WHEN the curtain fell on the premiere of Rodelinda on February 13, 1725, its c
THE last specks of rain of the previous night’s storm pattered against the widow of the drawing-room. Meryl Stewart sat at the keyboard of her baby grand, working her way through the piano arrangement
Opera: The Queen of Spades/L’elisir d’amore Garsington ...
Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari Mirco Palazzi, Marie Lys et al; Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset Aparté AP379 159 mins (2CD) A rival to Mozart – and in many ways enjoying a more successful internat
On Friday 18 July, at the hands of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the BBC Proms will be launched into life with Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood – two minu
Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Ondine ODE 1468-2 77:16 mins One of the features of Finland’s impressive music educati
Male readers may want to look away now, or at least cross their legs. We are, you see, going to begin by explaining how to make a castrato. It’s an uncomfortable subject, for sure, so if you’re of a n
