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Article: A piece of English treasure we must never forget; CLASSICAL.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: David Mellor
Thomas Arne: Artaxerxes Classical Opera Company Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London ***
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Joseph Haydn was astonished such an impressive English opera existed. Jane Austen disagreed; she complained that every time she came to London, it was the only thing on.
Whichever, there is no denying that Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes had legs several decades after its triumphant 1762 premiere. But then it fell out of fashion, and remains so. Yet on the evidence of this new production, and Hyperion's reissue ...