Music / opera

Catone in Utica


Reviews (4)


BBC music magazine

2013 December

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Nicholas Anderson

2013 December

"Vurdering: BBC music opera choice" - "This is a fascinating and apt reconstruction and there is some marvellous stuff here ... This recording includes outstanding contributions from Roberta Mameli (Caesar), Ann Hallenberg (Emilia), Sonia Prina (Martia) and Topi Lehtipuu (Cato)".


Operabladet Ascolta

(2003) 22. årgang nr. 2

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(2003) 22. årgang nr. 2


The gramophone

2013 November

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David Vickers

2013 November

"Curtis directs with astute dramatic pacing. The entire cast performs superbly: Topi Lehtipuu demonstrates authoritative potency and rhetorical intelligence befitting of Cato ... [Hallenberg, Prina and Basso] are probably the finest three mezzo-sopranos in the current Baroque opera business ... Ciccolini and Curtis deserve enormous credit for transforming an incomplete obscurity into a coherent and compelling opera".


International record review

2013 November

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Simon Heighes

2013 November

"The cast is riveting in the recitatives. The singers are so animated and involved in the drama you just have to find out what's going on by following the action in the accompanying booklet. Curtis shapes the drama geberiyskt, with notably more spacious speeds than some of his colleagues in earlier operas, and ther's no lack of dramatic tension or excitement ... A truly uplifting performance".