Out now

February 2010: 

Special birthday edition!

 Celebrating 60 years of OPERA  

• Semyon Bychkov, Ian Campbell, Plácido Domingo, Waldemar Dabrowksi, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Gelb, Philip Glass, Lord Harewood, Jiri Herman, Jack Mastroianni, Gerard Mortier, Elaine Padmore, Nicholas Payne, David Pountney, John Rockwell, Kaija Saariaho, Lyndon Terracini, Michel van der Aa, Giampaolo Vianello,Graham Vick and Roderick Williams share their thoughts on the future of opera 
• Vladimir Ashkenazy, George Christie, John Cox, Charles Mackerras, Kerstin Meyer, David Parry, Frederica 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 Lorraine; La Scala's season openers; Spain's first staging of Les Troyens in Valencia; Joyce DiDonato on CD and Michael Daugherty's Jackie O on DVD