March 2025
Our cover this month features the bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, who we profile as he prepares to sing in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick at the Metropolitan Opera.
Other features this month:
— Jack Sullivan looks at how novels by the great American writers have reached the operatic stage
— A unique Italian city: John-Pierre Joyce profiles Trieste’s Teatro Verdi
— The Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi talks to Brian Robins ahead of his concert performance of Michael Haydn’s rarely heard Andromeda e Perseo
— Our rising star is the mezzo-soprano Molly Barker, who sings in Opera North’s Fliegende Holländer this month
Productions reviewed this month include Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, Die Zauberflöte at Florida Grand Opera, Un ballo in maschera in Buenos Aires, Julius Caesar in Sydney, Palestrina in Vienna, Platée in Prague, Les Fêtes d’Hébé in Paris, Macbeth and Roméo et Juliette in Berlin, Intermezzo in Dresden, Der Kreidekreis in Düsseldorf, Roberto Devereux in Bergamo, La forza del destino in Milan, Simon Boccanegra in Rome, Guillaume Tell in Tokyo, Der schwarze Maske in Warsaw, Maria Stuarda in Madrid and Fedora in Geneva.
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