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Our first issue of the new year features the mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina on our front cover, winner of the Female […]
Read PostMaria Callas graces our cover as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth. We inaugurate our new partnership with […]
Read PostOur front cover shows Wotan (Christopher Maltman) leading the gods into Valhalla in a storm of rainbow confetti at the […]
Read PostTwo great magazines together Dear readers Two great magazines together: Opera News, the monthly publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, will […]
Read PostOur cover this month shows the great soprano Renata Scotto in one of her finest roles, Adriana Lecouvreur. We celebrate […]
Read PostOur front cover this month features the composer Jake Heggie, profiled inside by Rebecca Paller
Features include: Nicholas Payne on Alberich in Wagner’s Ring—is he the true hero of the cycle?; Robin Norton-Hale about her new role with English Touring Opera; the great tenor Sándor Kónya remembered in the centenary year of his birth; a favourite recording from regular contributor Christopher Webber: Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage
Read PostOur front cover this month shows a dramatic moment from Garsington Opera’s production of Mitridate, with Robert Murray in the […]
Read PostOur front cover this month celebrates the late, great Grace Bumbry (1937-2023) with tributes inside from Martina Arroyo and Yehuda […]
Read PostCan there be a more polarizing name in the current world of opera than that of Anna Netrebko?
Read PostThis month’s cover shows the production at La Monnaie in Brussels of Bastarda, a new ‘theatrical event’ based on Donizetti’s Tudor operas. Our features […]
Read PostThe 30 singers that constitute the Cairo Opera Company take the stage in most of the operas performed here, alongside guest singers, who appear in many main roles. This, however, was not the case with the performances that took place on three consecutive evenings in March (7 to 9). Under the title ‘Excerpts from Famous Operas’, the evening featured 15 Egyptian singers performing arias from Die Zauberflöte and Il trovatore and the first act of Tosca.
Read PostWelcome to our May issue, previewing the summer festivals. Our cover shows Tómas Tómasson as Napoleon in the new production […]
Read PostOn our front cover this month we have Elizabeth Llewellyn as Ariadne in the new production of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at Opera North.
Inside you’ll find much more—click below—features, performance reviews from around the world, the latest books and recordings and our Disc of the Month.
Read PostLlewellyn sings the title role in Opera North’s new ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ this month – interview by Erica Jeal
Read PostMarch features include: J’nai Bridges talking to Roger Pines about her progress from the Tacoma Youth Choir, via basketball and […]
Read PostElizabeth Llewellyn talks to Erica Jeal about her rapidly increasing repertory as she prepares to sing the title role in […]
Read PostThis film about the Cornish Heldentenor John Treleaven—born John Richards—is a family affair.
Read PostOur cover shows Heather Lowe as Phoebe in the recent production of The Yeomen of the Guard at English National […]
Read PostWelcome, Opera Readers Awards Winner and Opera Company of the 2022 Buenas noches — and thank you Petroc. I won’t […]
Read Post2022 Winners Announced The winners of the 2022 International Opera Awards were announced last night in a gala ceremony at […]
Read PostVisually compelling with its stage full of post-apocalyptic silver tubular entrails and abandoned aircraft seats submerged under garbage, swathed occasionally in drifts of atmospheric white smoke, this production of Sycorax, Georg Friedrich Haas’s new work, is stark and stunning
Read Post2022 International Opera Awards Next month’s issue will assess the effects on British opera of Arts Council England’s ill-considered and […]
Read PostThe International Opera Awards 2022- Shortlist. Ceremony to be held at Teatro Real in Madrid on November 28
Read PostWelsh National Opera’s new production of The Makropoulos Case is on our front cover, and reviewed inside. Jiří Heřman talks […]
Read PostIn a telling, vividly realized scene in Act 2 of John Adams’s new opera Antony and Cleopatra, Caesar (the transfixing tenor Paul Appleby) unleashes a mighty polemic to a rabid Roman throng.
Read PostDiana Damrau graces our cover this month, in performance as Countess Madeleine in Capriccio at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Iván Fischer […]
Read PostSeptember features include:
The coloratura mezzo Daniela Mack in conversation with David Shengold.
San Francisco Opera as the company prepares to celebrate its centennial season.
Karen Stone talking to Henrietta Bredin before retiring from her post as Intendant of Theater Magdeburg.
Paul Daniel’s favourite recording: Rigoletto conducted by Giulini in 1966.
Our front cover features Glyndebourne’s new production of La Bohème. Inside, Stéphanie d’Oustrac talks to Rupert Christiansen about her dazzlingly […]
Read PostThe irreplaceable Teresa Berganza is on our front cover and tributes are paid to her by Max Loppert, Plácido Domingo, […]
Read PostWe celebrate the life and work of Harrison Birtwistle with a tribute by Andrew Clements. Federica Lombardi talks to Hugh […]
Read PostOn April 7, on the eve of the opening night of The Handmaid’s Tale, a young woman in Starr County, Texas, was arrested and charged with murder after she ‘intentionally and knowingly caused the death of an individual by self-induced abortion’.
Read PostFestivals Preview The Teatro dell’Opera in Rome features on our front cover, lit up in the colours of Ukraine. We […]
Read PostGreat singers in great roles: Felicity Lott talks to Jon Tolansky about the Marschallin
Read PostLast month we had a bear on our front cover—this month it’s a fox. Look inside and you will find […]
Read PostA PANEL OF LEADING CHOREOGRAPHER-DIRECTORS DISCUSS HOW DANCE AND OPERA ARE INTERRELATED
Read PostDANCE IN OPERA We have a bear and a ballerina on our front cover, and inside there are reviews of […]
Read PostThe soprano Asmik Grigorian is our striking cover portrait. Operas reviewed include Macbeth at La Scala and at Covent Garden, […]
Read PostAs the pandemic changes course again, a group of artist managers explain the effect it is having on their industry
Read PostThe Wexford Festival production of Le Songe d’une nuit d’éte with Hasmik Torosyan is our cover image. Other operas reviewed […]
Read PostThe death of the great conductor Bernard Haitink on 21 October 2021 represented — in many different ways — the end of an era
Read PostWho will be the next music director at the Royal Opera House? Some possible candidates to take over from Antonio […]
Read PostAs we complete our coverage of this year’s festivals, the cover this month shows the production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Griselda […]
Read PostCovent Garden had been holding its collective breath since the originally scheduled first night of this new production in March 2020 became one of the first casualties of the pandemic shutdown.
Read PostThis month’s cover features the soprano Anna Nechaeva, making her debut at the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow as Maria in […]
Read PostGraham Vick smiles out of this month’s cover, but it is a sad one … Our September issue includes an […]
Read PostOur cover story is an interview with Eun Sun Kim, who takes up her new post as music director of […]
Read PostThis month’s cover features Peter Grimes at Madrid’s Teatro Real, a new production by Deborah Warner due to come to […]
Read PostOur cover this month features the soprano Lise Davidsen, winner of the Female Singer category in the International Opera Awards. […]
Read PostTo advertise email Russell Bass on russell@cabbells.uk February 2024 Next month in Opera with Opera News… Available online in time […]
Read PostPouring the champagne on our cover this month is Juan Diego Flórez as Alfredo in the Vienna Staatsoper’s La traviata. […]
Read PostOn our cover this month is Peter Mattei, the sought-after Swedish baritone profiled in the issue. The baritonal theme continues […]
Read PostOur cover this month features Opera Australia’s return to the stage, with The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House. There’s something of an Antipodean theme in our new issue, since New Zealand Opera’s general director Thomas de Mallet Burgess talks to the Editor about his vision for opera in a corner of the world that has dealt better than most places with the pandemic and where performances look set to go ahead uninterrupted in 2021.
Read PostWe profile the soprano Golda Schultz as she prepares to sing Agathe in Munich
Exploding the operatic canon: Jonathan Cross argues for a fresh approach to repertoire
Verdi, Chopin and tuberculosis: David Kasunic listens to La traviata in the age of Covid
Mark Pullinger spends lockdown listening to all of Vivaldi’s operas
Great singers in great roles: Franz Grundheber on Wozzeck
In the first of a series, Stephen A. Brown looks at how to navigate the early stages of a singing career
On the 125th anniversary of the premiere of La Bohème, David Chandler looks at how its creators, Illica and Puccini, were influenced by the illness and death of the composer Catalani
Gerald Finley picks his favourite recording
Available online January 11, in-store January 18
Read PostThis month’s cover features Asmik Grigorian in the title role of the new Rusalka at the Teatro Real, Madrid—the most ambitious and […]
Read PostThe December 2020 issue of OPERA celebrates Beethoven and especially Fidelio, his only opera, with features including a round table discussion among performers and critics and an exclusive interview with Christa Ludwig, a legendary interpreter of the title role
Read PostThe days when opera thrived in Iran…By Christopher Ballantine, Opera November 2020
Read PostA profile of the Danish bass-baritone John Reuter
—Great singers in the great roles: Sherrill Milnes on being Rigoletto
—English Touring Opera’s James Conway on rethinking the season
—Singing Tristan and Isolde: Ben Heppner, Stuart Skelton, Jane Eaglen and Christine Goerke
—Remembering Frederick Corder, composer and early English Wagnerian
—Changing fashions: Meyerbeer and Gounod
—A Malcolm Arnold opera is recorded
—Schiller and Italian opera
Our ‘For the record’ guest this month is Joyce DiDonato and our ‘Disc of the month’ is Peter Grimes on Chandos.
Read PostHow many of us sitting motionless and mesmerized in a darkened auditorium spare a thought for the circumstances of the singers whose voices we relish intensely but whose labours we often criticize so wantonly?
Read PostThere’s a soprano theme running through the features, with a ‘People’ profile of the scintillating Lisette Oropesa, who herself has enjoyed being back on stage since end of the lockdown. We also salute Josephine Barstow’s 80th birthday by revisiting her thoughts on singing Violetta, and we mark the bicentenary of Jenny Lind’s birth — the ‘Swedish nightingale’ is recalled mostly through her own words. Ermonela Jaho appears in our ‘For the record’ column, where she chooses Maria Callas’s recording of Madama Butterfly under Herbert von Karajan.
Read Post– This month we feature the great Grace Bumbry,
– A profile of the bel canto soprano Jessica Pratt
– The musicologist Roger Parker on working with Opera Rara
– A tribute to the conductor Richard Bonynge on his 90th birthday
– The great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz’s place in music
– A forgotten interview with the composer Pietro Mascagni is reconsidered
Our ‘For the record’ guest this month is the tenor Piotr Beczała, and our ‘Disc of the month’ is Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero.
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Read PostThis month’s cover features the Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s ‘Operngala im Autkino’, seemingly the first-ever drive-in opera performance — but […]
Read PostIf you are a student at any of the institutions listed below you can get access to Opera complete online archive via the […]
Read PostDear Reader, Our cover this month features the outstanding American tenor Lawrence Brownlee, sought after in the bel canto repertoire […]
Read PostIn the first of a series of Beethoven-inspired articles, John Allison finds parallels between the composer and Goya.
Read PostFew productions sum up isolation quite like that featured on this month’s cover, Christoph Waltz’s staging of Fidelio at the […]
Read PostWe are pleased to announce the launch of Opera Magazine’s new website for 2020 and beyond. The site’s design is […]
Read PostFeaturing on the cover of our newly published May 2020 issue, Lise Davidsen is seen in the title role of […]
Read PostOur April 2020 issue has just been published, and we put all the concerns of the moment aside first to […]
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