JULY 2024
Welcome to our July issue, packed as ever with interviews, feature articles and reviews from around the world.
Our front cover artists are Matilda Sterby as Magda and Leonardo Capalbo as Ruggero in La rondine at the Volksoper Wien.
Inside this issue:
The Editor outlines the deeply precarious position of Welsh National Opera.
Roger Pines and Anthony Whitworth-Jones remember the life and career of the conductor Andrew Davis.
Radames and Canio, Gustavo and Nemorino: Carlo Bergonzi’s golden years are described and celebrated by Stephen Hastings.
John-Pierre Joyce visits the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, devoted to the preservation and recording of 19th-century French music.
As Dorset Opera turns 50, Fiona Maddocks looks back at its triumphs and occasional tribulations.
Stephen Lawless directs L’elisir d’amore at Santa Fe this month and discusses his work in opera with Andrew Clark on a beach walk near his home in south-west Scotland.
As Carolina Uccelli’s opera Anna di Resburgo receives a long-overdue revival in New York, Cori Ellison looks at the life of a fine composer and astonishingly determined woman.
Our Disc of the Month is Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, with Jakub Józef Orliński and Fatma Said in the title roles and Il Giardino d’Amore conducted by Stefan Plewniak (Erato).
Our Stage Door emerging artist is Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, singing the title role in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne.
Reviews from around the world include: El Niño in New York, Die Frau ohne Schatten in Dresden, Zarqa Al Yamama by Wadia Sabra in Riyadh, Madama Butterfly in Copenhagen, La rondine in Vienna, Norma in Palm Beach, Die Hamletmaschine in Kassel, La sonnambula in Rome, Les Huguenots in St Petersburg, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Die Lustige Witwe in Zurich, Rivoluzione e Nostalgia in Brussels, El vencedor vencido by Federico Ibarra in Mexico City.
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