September 2024
Our September cover features the four confused lovers from Così fan tutte in Barrie Kosky’s new Vienna production.
Inside you’ll find features including:
Peter Gelb of New York’s Metropolitan Opera in conversation with the Editor, John Allison, talking of challenges and opportunities ahead.
A profile of the conductor Corrado Rovaris as he prepares to conduct Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at Opera Philadelphia.
A celebration of the influential 18th-century Neapolitan composer Nicolò Jommelli, championed by the conductor Riccardo Muti and to be featured at London’s Wigmore Hall on September 18.
Christophe Rousset talks to Brian Robbins about Salieri, Porpora and Cimarosa before conducting Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulide at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival.
Coming through the Stage Door is emerging artist Katrina Galka, singing Janine/Ofwarren in The Handmaid’s Tale at San Francisco Opera.
Our Disc of the Month is Colin de Blamont’s Les Fêtes grecques et romaines with La Chapelle Harmonique conducted by Valentin Tournet.
Performance reviews from around the world include Jake Heggie’s Before It All Goes Dark in Seattle, The Barber of Seville in St Louis, The Comet and L’incoronazione di Poppea in Los Angeles, Il trittico at Welsh National Opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen at Longborough Opera, Un giorno di regno and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Garsington Opera, The Rake’s Progress at the Grange Festival, Katya Kabanová at West Horsley, Dialogues des Carmélites in Lviv, Così fan tutte in Vienna, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Leipzig, Fidelio in Amsterdam, Un ballo in maschera in Valencia, Intermezzo in Berlin, Le Comte Ory in Wellington, Tannhäuser and Giulio Cesare in Frankfurt, Die Fledermaus in Lille
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