August 2025

Will they? Won’t they? Nemorino and Adina face off on our front cover in Garsington Opera’s new production of L’elisir d’amore with Oleksiy Palchykov and Madison Leonard.

Features inside include:

The New Zealand tenor Pene Pati talks about his life and career with Vivien Schweitzer as he prepares to sing Mozart’s Mitridate at the Salzburg Festival

Italo Montemezzi’s operatic career is assessed by David Chandler

In an interview made shortly before his death the director Grigory Spektor remembered rehearsing The Nose with its composer, Dmitry Shostakovich

Pittsburgh Opera’s Christopher Hahn in conversation with John Allison as he goes into his final season as general director

The brilliant storytelling style of the director John Dexter recalled by Jack Doulin

Emerging artist of the month: the countertenor Hugh Cutting as he prepares for appearances at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh Festival

Productions reviewed around the world include: Antony and Cleopatra and The Queen of Spades at the Met, Elektra in Vienna, Parsifal in Frankfurt and at Glyndebourne, L’elisir d’amore and The Queen of Spades at Garsington Opera, The Central Park Five in Detroit, Iolanta in Vladivostok, Aida in Cape Town, La Fille du régiment in Santa Barbara, Rusalka in Zagreb, Samson et Dalila in Melbourne, I grotteschi in Brussels, Der fliegende Holländer at Opera Holland Park, Der Rosenkavalier in Paris, Il nome della rosa in Milan, Rigoletto in Mexico City, Die tote Stadt in Zurich, Madana in Bangkok, Simon Boccanegra at Grange Park Opera