November 2025
Blast off! Four astronauts feature on our cover this month, in Jennifer Walshe’s new opera MARS at Irish National Opera.
Features inside include:
A profile of the 95-year-old director Pier Luigi Pizzi, looking back at his almost 75-year career and forwards to his new productions this autumn and beyond.
Una Hunt explores the world of the 19th-century Irish composer William Vincent Wallace and his once very popular opera Lurline.
Richard Russell, Sarasota Opera’s longstanding general director, shares the secrets of his company’s success.
Ken Smith takes the measure of The Monkey King by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang, ahead of its premiere at San Francisco Opera.
The baritone Theo Hoffman is our emerging Stage Door artist, with performances in November at the Opéra-Comique and Washington Concert Opera.
There are festival roundups from Salzburg, Glimmerglass, Innsbruck, Copenhagen, Halle, Potsdam, Martina Franca, Pesaro, Grimeborn, Waterperry and Edinburgh. Other productions reviewed around the world include Così fan tutte at Aspen, Rusalka in Sydney, La traviata in Santiago, MARS in Dublin, Mothers in Tel Aviv, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Cremona, Siegfried and Norma in Milan, Andrea Chénier in Turin, Natasha in Tokyo and Tosca in London.
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