February 2025
75th birthday edition
Our cover this month shows a scene from Robert Carsen’s new Brno production of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček.
In our 75th birthday issue, we look back at three quarters of a century of OPERA as captured in our covers. Plus …
- Mark-Anthony Turnage talks to Jonathan Cross about his new opera Festen, which is to be premiered by the Royal Opera this month
- Laura Canning talks to Henrietta Bredin about her plans for Opera North
- We profile Keri-Lynn Wilson, opera conductor and founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
- Shawna Lucey talks to Lisa Hirsch about running Opera San José, as the company prepares for her new production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Our rising star is the bass William Guanbo Su, who sings Colline in the Dallas Opera’s La Bohème this month
In addition to Brno’s Brouček, productions reviewed this month include Blue in Chicago, Die Frau ohne Schatten in New York, Macbeth in Washington, Alma in Vienna, Fanny and Alexander in Brussels, Der fliegende Holländer in Santiago, Thaïs in Saint-Étienne, Ariodante in Strasbourg, La fiamma and Nabucco in Berlin, Lulu in Frankfurt, Das Rheingold in Munich, Turandot in Budapest, Das Rheingold in Milan, Rusalka in Naples, the Manon trilogy in Turin, Le lacrime di Eros in Amsterdam, The Turn of the Screw in Cape Town, Theodora in Madrid, Otello in Gothenburg, Guillaume Tell in Lausanne, Life with an Idiot in Zurich and The Elixir of Love in London.
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