Front cover Feb 10 – Volume 61 – No 2

Out now

February 2010: 

Special birthday edition!

 Celebrating 60 years of OPERA  
 
  • Semyon BychkovIan CampbellPlácido DomingoWaldemar DabrowksiBrigitte FassbaenderPeter GelbPhilip GlassLord HarewoodJiri HermanJack MastroianniGerard MortierElaine PadmoreNicholas PayneDavid PountneyJohn RockwellKaija SaariahoLyndon TerraciniMichel van der AaGiampaolo Vianello,Graham Vick and Roderick Williams share their thoughts on the future of opera 
  • Vladimir AshkenazyGeorge ChristieJohn CoxCharles MackerrasKerstin MeyerDavid ParryFrederica von Stade and Rodney Milnes pay tribute to the great Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström (1927 - 2009)
  • Edward Gardner talks to George Hall
  • Julian Grant considers the shape of opera to come
  • Stephen Lord on the state of singing
  • Fiona Maddocks meets Amanda Holden and Brett Dean ahead of the premiere of their new opera, Bliss
  • Reviews include Graham Vick's Othello in Birmingham; Opera Australia's new Peter Grimes; the premiere of Lei Lei’s Xi Shi in Beijing; a new Medea at the Opéra National de LorraineLa Scala's season openers; Spain's first staging of Les Troyens in ValenciaJoyce DiDonato on CD and Michael Daugherty's Jackie O on DVD
 
FEBRUARY 2010 - in stores January 19

 

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Articles

In the Key of Dreams

David Pountney on Martinu, the great experimenter....Read more

Reviews

Salome in Barcelona

Richard Strauss’s famously optimistic ideal for his operatic Salome was ‘a 16-year-old princess with the voice of an Isolde’.....Read more

Opera People

Juan Diego Flórez

Juan Diego Flórez is profiled by George Hall....Read more