Browse: Opera, Opera Arias, Dvořák (composer)

this is Rolls-Royce singing, the voice a finely tuned engine whose expressive powers go from zero to off-the-dial in seconds as an introspective pianissimo builds to an outburst of unleashed... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Cendrillon aria suits her talents closely, with her ethereal tone and confident coloratura skills. There’s some real magic here. Mendelssohn’s fairy-song ‘Neue Liebe’ has just the right hint... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The set’s high point is ‘Das war sehr gut, Mandryka’ from Arabella, in which the gradual expansion of her tone quality becomes a visceral dramatisation of how her character fearlessly opens her... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023 More…

Capuçon accordingly produces an elegantly sustained, warm sound, inflected by a mediumpaced, medium-width vibrato, and phrases everything to exquisite perfection…Some may prefer something a little... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Netrebko projects some of the bigger parts with a power that would have been hard to predict just a few years ago. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2006 More…

Hers is a full, fleshy soprano with a tone one might suggest has a slightly Nordic quality (her name implies a Scandinavian background). She possesses a good vocal range – less so, perhaps, in... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Siurina’s voice has, of course, grown in amplitude of late, and a hint of metal now lurks beneath its silky sound. Her ability to float soft high pianissimos remains immaculate. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2023 More…