November 2024
Our cover shows Benjamin Bernheim as Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Salzburg Festival.
Inside you’ll find:
The complete shortlist of potential winners for this year’s International Opera Awards.
Two articles to celebrate the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini: Alexandra Wilson on his librettist collaborators and Paul Seeley on his friendship with Franz Lehár.
As he prepares to make his role debut as Pelléas, with the Dallas Opera, the baritone Benjamin Appl talks to Louise T. Guinther.
The director Francesca Zambello, Washington National Opera’s artistic director, opens the new season with a production of Fidelio and discusses her career with Heidi Waleson.
Our Stage Door artist this month is the soprano Ffion Edwards, singing the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden for English Touring Opera this autumn.
Disc of the Month is the DVD of Martinů’s The Greek Passion from the 2023 Salzburg Festival.
Performance reviews from around the world include Der Vampyr at Grimeborn in London, a Donizetti premiere—Dalinda—in Cape Town, La traviata and Gregory Spears’s The Righteous at Santa Fe, Roberto Devereux in Geneva, Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth, Pelléas et Mélisande in Munich, Der Freischütz in Bregenz, La clemenza di Tito, The Gambler, Weinberg’s The Idiot and Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Salzburg, Don Giovanni in Cincinnati, Alcina in Beaune, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree at Glimmerglass, Ermione at the Pesaro Festival, Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus in Portland
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