April 2024
Our front cover features the soprano Julia Bullock as she prepares to make her Metropolitan Opera debut in John Adams’s El Niño.
Inside this issue:
Great singers in great roles: François Le Roux in conversation with Jon Tolansky about singing both Pelléas and Golaud in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
Puccini’s La rondine and its complex history unravelled by Ditlev Rindom.
Jules Verne, who might have been a singer, but turned to writing his ‘Extraordinary Voyages’, a history discovered by Christopher Webber.
Julia Bullock talks to Jennifer Melick about preparing to sing in John Adams’s El Niño at the Met and, before that, in a chamber version of the work on tour around the US.
The Bartered Bride and its chequered history at the Metropolitan Opera explored by William V. Madison.
There are full listings of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts and performance reviews from around the world include: Dalibor in Brno; Medée in Warsaw; Terence Blanchard’s Champion in Chicago; Candide in Vienna; Elektra in Lübeck; Das Rheingold in Los Angeles; Les Vêpres siciliennes in Naples; Mikael Karlsson’s Melancholia in Stockholm; Cendrillon in Glasgow
Our Disc of the Month is Katya Kabanová, with Amanda Majeski, Katarina Dalayman, Magdalena Kožená, Simon O’Neill and Pavlo Hunka, and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle.
Emerging artist coming through the Stage Door is the tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro, who sings Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera Philadelphia in April and May.
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