December 2024
Lawrence Brownlee and Angela Yam are on our very pink front cover, in Mitridate with Boston Lyric Opera
Inside you’ll find:
The results of this year’s International Opera Awards and photographs of the awards ceremony held at Munich’s Prinzregententheater.
A profile of the conductor Alexander Soddy, poised to conduct Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Berlin Staatsoper.
As Angelia Jolie hits the big screen as Maria Callas we present an overview of opera on film, from Pabst’s 1931 Threepenny Opera to Mike Leigh’s 1999 Topsy-Turvy and beyond, by John-Pierre Joyce.
In a double treat, Frederica von Stade talks to Roger Pines about the role of Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther, and to Fred Cohn about her recording legacy.
Verdi’s Aida and the responses it has provoked are considered by Philip Kennicott.
Coming through the Stage Door this month is Duke Kim, making his Metropolitan Opera debut this month as Tamino in The Magic Flute.
Performance reviews from around the world include Yevgeny Onegin, Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place at Covent Garden, The Turn of the Screw and Suor Angelica at English National Opera, The Snowmaiden at English Touring Opera, Rigoletto and Il trittico at Welsh National Opera, Orontea at La Scala, Satyagraha in Hanover, Don Carlo in Vienna, Siegfried in Brussels, Nixon in China in Budapest, Here I am, Orlando in Brno, Ifigenia in Aulide in Bayreuth, Giulio Cesare in Tel Aviv, Mitridate in Boston, Tamerlano, Fidelio and Leonora in Chicago, Ainadamar and Grounded in New York.
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