It’s so nice to hear the wonderful Czech Philharmonic on a different record label after being smothered in excess warmth and an airless acoustic on Supraphon practically forever. And even though Pentatone has almost entirely […]
Tonight in Berlin, the Staatsoper launches a new production of The Excursions of Mr Broucek. Tomorrow in Munich, the Staatsoper opens a new Katya Kabanova. This is not a Janacek anniversary year. It is routine […]
Il Pomo d’Oro and counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orliński form a Theseus thread though a trio of discs we will examine in turn: Gluck’s opera Orfeo & Euridice with Orlinski (and Elsa Dreisig and Fatima Said) […]