October 2021
This month’s cover features the soprano Anna Nechaeva, making her debut at the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow as Maria in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa. We cover the major operatic events of the summer, continuing our festivals coverage and including reviews from Salzburg, Bayreuth, Munich, Verona and Glimmerglass.
Our features are:
—Profile of the French mezzo turned soprano Béatrice Uria-Monzon
—‘Great singers in great roles’: Bruno Praticò as Dr Bartolo
—Rosetta Cucchi, artistic director Wexford Festival Opera, shares her plans
—On the trail of Ludomir Rogowski, from Lublin to Dubrovnik
—Chelsea Opera Group’s next moves
Leading off the recording and book review section, our ‘Disc of the month’ is Die tote Stadt, the first operatic DVD on the Bayerische Staatsoper’s new label, and ‘For the record’ is with the soprano Dorothea Herbert.
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