Once I was a schlepper, now I’m Miss Mazeppa Once I was a schlepper, now I’m Miss Mazeppa

John Danaher on the world-premiere recording of Clémence de Grandval‘s wild and worthy Mazeppa, the latest release from the operatic archaeologists at Palazzetto Bru Zane.

Psyché’d up Psyché’d up

It would be difficult to find a better description for Ambroise Thomas’s newly-recovered Psyché, recently heard in a new recording from Palazzetto Bru Zane, than the one uttered by her suitors: “Charmante Psyché!”

Georges has Georges Georges has Georges

A double bill of rare Bizet works in Paris is not something any of us needs to do more than once