The Enchanted Island – review

DiDonato, Daniels, de Niese, Domingo, Metropolitan Opera/ Christie(Virgin Classics)This enjoyable farrago is a newly created baroque pastiche, woven with considerable ingenuity by Jeremy Sams from The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The plot may confuse, and the first act is too long, but the score is a fun melange of greatest 18th-century hits, and the second act is pacier, galvanised by an early Handel ensemble. The singing from Danielle de Niese, David Daniels and Joyce DiDonato is ste...

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