March 2023

March features include:

J’nai Bridges talking to Roger Pines about her progress from the Tacoma Youth Choir, via basketball and a string of lead mezzo roles as she prepares to sing Carmen in Chicago

Great singers in great roles: Sergey Leiferkus discussing the role of Yevgeny Onegin with Jon Tolansky

Charles Mackerras writing home: Nigel Simeone on some fascinating family letters from 1959

David Chandler on a favourite recording – Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re

Our Disc of the Month is the sprawling and surreal Lanzelot by Dessau, with Emily Hindrichs as Elsa, Máté Sólyom-Nagy as Lanzelot, Oleksandr Pushniak as the Dragon and the Staatskapele Weimar conducted by Dominik Beykirch (Audite)

Reviews this month include: Fedora at the Met, Boris Godunov in Milan, The Enchantress in Frankfurt, Don Carlo in Naples, Lady in the Dark in Utrecht, Die Meistersinger in Vienna, Macbeth in Christchurch, Lohengrin in Munich, Parsifal in Bergen, Don Giovanni in Turin, Maria Stuarda in Geneva, Don Pasquale in Dublin