Browse: Melody Moore (soprano)

A performance full of interest and vividly communicative artistry. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019 More…

This is a performance high on drama, as all the best Toscas should be...Exchanges between the characters have a real sense of urgency and psychological tension, as all involved work hard to bring... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All three of the principals deliver honourable, quality performances…Schukoff is a convincing exponent of the title-role, deliberate and controlled, if in the final analysis somewhat bland and... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

In this new recording, the opera’s symphonic quality is emphasised to the max by conductor Lawrence Foster. Much of the orchestral playing, flatteringly recorded, is voluptuous – shimmeringly... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Does Moore sound like Tebaldi? Not exactly: a track-by-track comparison reveals subtle differences in timbre and interpretation. But this is an act of homage, not impersonation, and Tebaldi’s... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In this studio recording, the three central roles go well together, though without being strikingly individual...in their best moments both Moore and Jagde find the expansiveness to allow Puccini’s... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Getty's opera is stuffed with period-evoking quotations, and even this shortened 'concert-version', squeezed on to a single disc, feels long and unmemorable. But the strong cast makes a fine... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This new version of Mascagni’s one-act wonder is everything that verismo should be: intense, passionate and heart-stopping as it reaches its grisly climax…[Janowski] transforms what is often... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…