The usual array of opera recital discs is crowding the shelves for the Christmas market. Admirers of Jonas Kaufmann will already have taken note of his recital of French opera and the best of the rest ...

Renee Fleming, soprano; Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Charles Mackerras, conductor (London). The debut recital recording by one of today’s most celebrated young singers invites mixed responses–pleasure at ...

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Sydney Symphony principal cellist Umberto Clerici is conducting rather than playing the cello for this concert of Mozart arias and Schubert instrumental music. Having won seven Helpmann Awards, ...

Tenor Rolando Villazón has announced a new album of Mozart concert arias due for release in January 2014 on the Deutsche Grammophon label. The album, simply entitled Mozart Concert Arias, was recorded ...

After years suffering from vocal problems relating to excessive ardour in a heavy romantic repertoire, the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón has turned more of his attention to the gentler demands of ...

Mozart’s operas represent a roll-call of favourite characters and timeless music, blending the comic with the serious, and the historical with the contemporary. In the duet "Là ci darem la mano" we ...

As part of the worldwide Mozart 250th birthday celebrations, last June conductor Richard Bradshaw brought three rising opera stars together to record an album of arias and duets from Mozart’s greatest ...

The world’s most sought-after interpreter of German song treads the boards of the opera house here. In theory, Christian Gerhaher’s warm, flexible baritone should make him ideal for Mozart, and so he ...