October 2024
Cecilia Bartoli graces this month’s cover, as she talks to Yehuda Shapiro about her vision for Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Inside you’ll also find features including:
The director Tazewell Thompson introduces his new work Jubilee at Seattle Opera.
Opera Poznań’s Intendant Renata Borowska-Juszczyńska in conversation with John Allison about the city’s new Moniuszko Festival.
An interview with the director Stephen Wadsworth as he prepares to direct Il trovatore at Houston Grand Opera.
Stanford’s opera The Critic is reconsidered as it is performed at Wexford Festival Opera.
A tribute to the composer Wolfgang Rihm by Andrew Clements.
Coming through the Stage Door is the emerging tenor Joshua Blue, who sings Rodolfo at ENO.
Our Disc of the Month is the new CD recording on Supraphon of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček with forces from Prague’s National Theatre.
Performance reviews from around the world included Carolina Uccelli’s rediscovered Anna di Resburgo at Teatro Nuovo in New York, Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète at Bard Summerscape, Turandot in Brussels, Smetana’s The Two Widows at Litomyšl, Nixon in China in Berlin, Saint François d’Assise in Hamburg, Werther and Turandot in Milan, La clemenza di Tito in Bucharest, Rusalka in Perth, Puccini’s Edgar at Opera Holland Park, Oedipus Rex at Edinburgh PLUS festival coverage from Aix-en-Provence, Savonlinna, Sopot, Buxton, Glyndebourne, Glimmerglass and Des Moines.
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