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Zaira by Mercadante (Opera Rara ORR224)
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Reviews

Outstanding among the singers is Alastair Miles in the role of the enlightened Muslim king in love with Zaira. The writing is for a high lyric bass with the skills of a thorough virtuoso. Miles is exemplary in the evenness and fluency of his scales and gruppetti and the tessitura suits him admirably.
John Steane, GRAMOPHONE, June 2003

Alastair Miles is outstanding in the role of Orosmane, Sultan of Jerusalem.
Anthony Holden, THE OBSERVER, March 2003

Alastair Miles delivers impeccable singing.
George Hall, BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, May 2003

As Orosmane, the opera’s most sympathetic character, Alastair Miles sings with tonal excellence and the requisite agility for a role created by Antonio Tamburini.
George Loomis, OPERA, June 2003

This leads in to Orosmane’s aria, in which florid twists and turns are encountered in phrase after phrase, though Alastair Miles, in splendid voice, is in no way fazed. His well-supported tone and clean articulation of notes allow him to realize every vocal ornament with which Orosmane’s music confronts him. His fleet negoiation of the cabaletta tempted me to
repeat it immediately. I succumbed.
John T. Hughes, INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW May 2003

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