Operas
Excellent *****
- Handel (1685-1759)
- Ariodante
- The London Coliseum, David Alden DIR, Ivor Bolton
- and the English National Opera
- with Ann Murray, Paul Nilon
- Act I, Scene 1, Aria "Diamonds, flamboyant, enduring" (Ginevra)
- Act I, Scene 10, Aria "You are warmth and you are sunshine" (Lurcanio)
- Act II, Scene 3, Aria "Take your pleasure" (Ariodante)
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt)
- Glyndebourne, David McVicar DIR, William Christie
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Glyndebourne Chorus
- with Sarah Connolly, Danielle de Niese
- Act I, Scene 9, Aria "Va tacito e nascosto" (Cesare)
- Act I, Scene 11, Duet "Son nata a lagrimar - Son nato a sospirar" (Cornelia, Sesto)
- Act II, Scene 2, Sinfonia
- Act II, Scene 2, Aria "V'adoro, pupille" (Cleopatra)
- Act II, Scene 8, Accompagnato "Che sento? O dio!" (Cleopatra)
- Act II, Scene 8, Aria "Se pietà di me non senti" (Cleopatra)
- Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Eugene Onegin
- Glyndebourne, Graham Vick DIR, Andrew Davies
- and the London Philharmonic
- with Drabowicz, Prokina, Thompson, Winter
Worth seeing - once ***
- Bizet (1838-1875)
- Handel (1685-1759)
- Mozart WA (1756-1791)
- Verdi (1813-1901)
Unremarkable **
- Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Berg (1885-1935)
- Donizetti (1797-1848)
- Gershwin (1898-1937)
- Handel (1685-1759)
- Janacek (1854-1924)
- Lehár (1870-1948)
- Leoncavallo (1957-1919)
- Mozart WA (1756-1791)
- Puccini (1858-1924)
- Purcell (1659-1695)
- Rossini (1792-1868)
- Cenerentola; La (Cinderella)
- Strass R (1864-1949)
- Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Verdi (1813-1901)
- Boheme; La
- Falstaff
- Otello
- Rigaletto
- Tosca
- Traviata; La
- Wagner (1813-1883)
- Fliegende Hollander; Def (The Flying Dutchman)
- Meistersinger Von Nurnberg; Die (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)
- Parsifal
- Rheingold; Das
- Tannhäuser
- Tristan and Isolde