June 2026
Our cover this month celebrates — for readers in the northern hemisphere — midsummer, with a carpet of flowers courtesy of Covent Garden’s new production of Siegfried, and Elisabet Strid as Brünnhilde.
Our features are:
A tribute to the composer Carlisle Floyd one what would have been his 100th birthday.
A profile of the Georgian soprano Salome Jicia, singing Norma for Irish National Opera this month
The composer Laura Kaminsky, whose opera As One is staged in Dresden this month, is in conversation with Fred Cohn
Jeffery McMillan rediscovers the voice of Elisabeth Rethberg, one of the great sopranos of the interwar period, who died 50 years ago
In Stage Door, our rising star is Finnegan Downie Dear, who conducts Der Rosenkavalier at Garsington Opera this month
Productions reviewed from around the world include Der Silbersee and Madama Butterfly in Chicago, Of Mice and Men in Houston, Innocence in New York, Treemonisha and The Crucible in Washington, The Trial in Perth, Das Rheingold in Salzburg, L’opera seria in Vienna, The Queen of Spades in Liège, Macbeth in Sofia, Hänsel und Gretel in Calgary, Eugene Onegin in Hong Kong, Aida in Zagreb, Der Rosenkavalier in Copenhagen, Manon Lescaut in Lyon, Le Roi d’Ys in Strasbourg, Lohengrin in Baden-Baden, Parsifal in Dresden, Rusalka in Dublin, The Dybbuk in Tel Aviv, Macbeth in Turin, Aida in Riga, The Theory of Flames in Amsterdam, La traviata in Bergen, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Moscow, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Madrid, Carmen in Malmö, Tristan und Isolde in Glasgow, and The Turn of the Screw and Siegfried in London.
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