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This is the fifth in Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s and Rolando Villazon’s undertakings of seven Mozart operas to be laid down for DG. The Don G was
I’ve so far been a fan of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s DG Mozart cycle, in particular the Don Giovanni (see reviews archive). They all share similarities: fleet
In her recording of Orfeo and elsewhere, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm
It’s been a while since we’ve had a new recording of Entführung, and now two have appeared: this one and one led by René Jacobs
This is an energetic, ideally balanced performance of Cosi—no small feat. Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s leadership percolates and is full of wit, but it is not cold;
I think Anna Netrebko is by now review-proof, and possibly criticism proof: even her warm relationship with and support for Vladimir Putin, despite his attitude
I suspect that a better-cast Don Giovanni than this one would be hard to find nowadays. With ideal or near-ideal singers in six of the
Despite the fact that the world needs no more recordings of this opera—at least a half-dozen of those available fall into the “superb” category—this one
This handsome production comes from Covent Garden; it was recorded in 2008. Stage director Nicholas Hytner and conductor Antonio Pappano use the five-act version of
If you love Verdi’s Requiem as much as I do you can get awfully picky about modern recordings of the work. But there’s not much
