While Charles Mackerras recorded Mozart's complete Piano Concertos and Symphonies for Telarc in the late Eighties and early Nineties, he recorded only four of Mozart's operas, the three Da Ponte operas plus Die Zauberflöte. More than a decade later, Deutsche Grammophon filled a conspicuous hole in catalogue with Mackerras' recording of La Clemenza ...
Cosě fan tutte is an ideal candidate for Chandos' Opera in English series; it's so talky and the libretto is so verbally witty and subtle that hearing it in English gives it an immediacy that's not possible when it's sung in a language in which one isn't fluent. The English version by Marmaduke Browne, adapted by John Cox, is very fine, natural, ...
Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims may be the first postmodern opera in terms of the self-referentiality of its libretto: it was written about a future event -- the coronation of Charles X of France in 1825 -- to be performed as part of the celebration surrounding the coronation itself. The libretto, by Luigi Balocchi, is one of the silliest and most ...
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