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ÉCHO–JOYCE EL-KHOURY
“It’s easy to see why Joyce El-Khoury would be drawn to this repertoire. It fits her very beautiful and agile voice perfectly. She has all the bases covered as she amply demonstrates in this recording.” —John Gilks
OPERA ARIAS AND SCENES –VENAZZIO RAUZZINI
Centaur: CRC 3416
“This is a record full of interesting, unusual material that deserves to be heard.”—Rick Phillips
LA DONNA È MOBILE — Luc Robert
Estonian Record Productions: ERP9316
“Robert possesses a very attractive voice, with a vibrant, warm, Italianate timbre” —Joseph So
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO –Mozart
Alpha Classics 270
“Gauvin is in fine voice as the scheming Vitellia; she shines especially in her dark lower register, and beautifully exploits the wide range the role demands.”—Rick MacMillan
PROSERPINE–SAINT-SAËNS
“Captured live in concert, the recorded sound is excellent with crisp, clear voices, well balanced with orchestra” —Rick Phillips
The Marriage of FigaroMozart is Everything
You’ve met our cast, now see them in action! Don’t miss Opera Atelier’s production of The Marriage of Figaro. Mozart’s masterpiece runs October 26 to November 4 at the Elgin Theatre. Perfect for music lovers of all ages – visit the link in the description today!
As One a Haunting Success in San Diego
The relatively new one act opera, As One (music by Laura Kaminsky, book by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed), has become the most often performed contemporary work in recent years for several reasons. First, it is a wholly engrossing character study as it traces the...
Madama Butterfly: The Music
The 2017 Glyndebourne Tour arrives in Canterbury with a satisfying Così fan tutte
Hytner’s elegant production is a smooth slow-burner: everything unfolds with subtlety and slickness - from the graceful sliding panel which transforms an urbane interior to a sun-drenched exterior in the blink of an eye, to Don Alfonso’s sly manoeuvrings, to the...
Richard Jones’s Rodelinda returns to ENO
An indignant sense of unjust usurpation was probably just as prevalent in Hanoverian London - that is, among those Jacobites who sought to re-establish a Stuart monarchy. But, despite the large map of Milan which looms from the wall of the political...
Amusing Old Movie Becomes Engrossing New Opera
In it he replaced the spoken words of the film with recitative, arioso, aria, and an occasional orchestral interlude, the building blocks of opera. Technically, it was not an easy job because Morganelli’s music had to fit into the exact timings of the film. In April...