Arne - Artaxerxes
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Opera
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Arne: Artaxerxes
Christopher Robson (Artaxerxes), Ian Partridge (Artabanes), Patricia Spence (Arbaces), Richard Edgar-Wilson (Rimenes), Catherine Bott (Mandane), Philippa Hyde (Semira)
The Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman
Bott gives a masterly performance, with the counter-tenor Christopher Robson also impressive in the castrato title-role, and with Ian Partridge pure-toned and incisive in the role of the villain,... —
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Arne: Artaxerxes
Elizabeth Watts, Caitlin Hulcup, Rebecca Bottone, Christopher Ainslie, Daniel Norman, Andrew Staples, The Mozartists, Ian Page
Revisiting this exhilarating performance, it is little wonder that Haydn exclaimed he ‘had no idea we had such an opera in the English language’. —
