As wonderfully as Giacomo Puccini’s opera has been served in the studio, this Warner Classics release is up there with the best.
With James Conlon conducting a sensitive account of the score, and a fine cast to boot, there is no mystery to the success of this production.
The orchestra and director Donato Cabrera brilliantly interpret pieces that would have been intimately familiar to the composer.
The U.S. premiere of Felipe Lara’s Double Concerto has the two players merging avant-garde sensibilities, with Susanna Mälkki conducting.
The 2023–2024 season sees Esa-Pekka Salonen realizing many of the ambitious plans he had previously set out to undertake.
