January 2025
Our cover this month: Juan Diego Flórez and feathered friend in the new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Covent Garden.
A man and a parrot are on our front cover, Juan Diego Flóres and friend in the new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Covent Garden.
Inside you’ll find:
A profile of the Australian bass-baritone Warwick Fyfe as he prepares to make his role debut as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Melbourne Opera.
Juan Diego Flórez talking about his love of zarzuela.
Anthony Roth Costanzo on the challenges of his new role as General Director of Opera Philadelphia.
The extraordinary history of the Black Swan record label, featuring such exceptional artists as Antoinette Garnes, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Harry Pace, in an essay by Lucy Caplan.
Emerging artist, the soprano Caitlin Gotimer, coming through the Stage Door. Performance reviews from around the world include Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Covent Garden, La sonnambula in Tokyo, Haas’s The Charlatan in Ostrava, Pelléas et Mélisande in Dallas, Holst’s Sita in Saarbrücken, Tristan und Isolde in San Francisco, Eucalyptus in Melbourne, L’elisir d’amore in Santiago, Manon in Valencia, King Arthur in Kyiv, Les Brigands in Paris, Carmina Burana in Hamburg, Stanford’s The Critic at Wexford, Beatrix Cenci in Mexico City, Fin de partie in Vienna, Dargomyzhsky’s
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