Opus Arte Critics' Choice
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Carsen blends the passion, vitriol, and cheeky appeal of Gay’s original – here set to new dialogue by Ian Burton – with William Christie’s version of the score, and some West End-style singing... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Handel: Saul
RecommendedChristopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie...
Pivotal is Christopher Purves’s Saul – surely the father-in-law from hell should the Goliath-slaying David choose his daughter Michal (or son Jonathan – tenderly sung by Paul Appleby). Purves... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2015, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Saul
RecommendedChristopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie...
Pivotal is Christopher Purves’s Saul – surely the father-in-law from hell should the Goliath-slaying David choose his daughter Michal (or son Jonathan – tenderly sung by Paul Appleby). Purves... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2015, Recording of the Month
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Hérold: La Fille mal gardée
Carlos Acosta (Colas), Marianela Nuñez (Lise), William Tuckett (Widow Simone) & Jonathan Howells (Alain)
The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Anthony Twiner
La fille mal gardée is sheer perfection, Nuñez and Acosta are unsurpassable respectively in the feminine grace and masculine confidence of Ashton's Lise and Colas, and their mimetic skills... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Performance & Documentaries
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Whether Gay needed an overhaul is one question. Another is whether the new script’s breathless speed gels with the Baroque musical manners of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants. The answer... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Hérold: La Fille mal gardée
Carlos Acosta (Colas), Marianela Nuñez (Lise), William Tuckett (Widow Simone) & Jonathan Howells (Alain)
The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Anthony Twiner
La fille mal gardée is sheer perfection, Nuñez and Acosta are unsurpassable respectively in the feminine grace and masculine confidence of Ashton's Lise and Colas, and their mimetic skills are... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Performance & Documentaries
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Shakespeare: Henry IV
Donmar Warehouse
Harriet Walter (Henry IV), Sophie Stanton (Falstaff), Claire Dunne (Prince Hal), Jade Anouka (Hotspur), Jackie Clune (Westmoreland/ Glendower), Shiloh Coke (Mortimer), Karen Dunbar (Bardolph/Vernon)
Phyllida Lloyd
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
David Portillo (Tamino), Sofia Fomina (Pamina), Björn Bürger (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Caroline Wettergreen (Queen of the Night)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Glyndebourne Chorus, Ryan Wigglesworth; Barbe & Doucet
In the first half, André Barbe’s exquisitely drawn and then enlarged interiors magic the eye, and the cut-out guests that people the hotel are a delight. But when we reach the trials in the... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Lianna Haroutounian (Leonora), Gregory Kunde (Manrico), Anita Rachvelishvili (Azucena), Vitaliy Bilyy (Luna), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Ferrando)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Richard Farnes, David Bösch
Kunde sings powerfully and reliably but without much seductiveness in his timbre…Haroutounian offers a classy, movingly acted Leonora but is a little short on Verdian authority…The star of the... —
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Shakespeare: The Tempest
Harriet Walter (Prospero), Jade Anouka (Ariel), Sheila Atim (Ferdinand), Jackie Clune (Stefano), Leah Harvey (Miranda), Sophie Stanton (Caliban), Carolina Valdés (Antonio)
