Year: 2006

The best Norma on DVD treats the viewer to a blurry picture of washed-out colors and remote, compressed sound.

The better can be the enemy of the good and this recording proves it.

In her debut recording the young Roumanian soprano Katarina Jovanic demonstrates her talent in performing an intriguing selection of Lieder by Schubert, Brahms, and Strauss.

Myto does many an opera-lover a service by offering this enjoyable recording of Rossini’s French grand opera, here called Moïse.

For a period of close to half a century, French grand opera, as exemplified by the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer and his school, was the preferred form of music for the theatre (i.e. opera) in most of the civilized world.