Articles

April 2022 / Articles

One eye wet and one eye dry 

Great singers in great roles: Felicity Lott talks to Jon Tolansky about the Marschallin
Just as Clytemnestra should not be an old hag but a beautiful proud woman of 50, whose ruin is purely spiritual and by no means physical, the Marschallin must be a young and beautiful woman of 32 at the most who, in a bad mood, thinks herself ‘an old woman’ as compared with the 17-year-old Octavian. (Richard Strauss, 1942

February 2022 / Articles

SUPERCHARGING THE SCORE

A PANEL OF LEADING CHOREOGRAPHER-DIRECTORS DISCUSS HOW DANCE AND OPERA ARE INTERRELATED

December 2021 / Articles

Unsecret agents

As the pandemic changes course again, a group of artist managers explain the effect it is having on their industry

September 2020 / Articles, News

The cost of singing

How many of us sitting motionless and mesmerized in a darkened auditorium spare a thought for the circumstances of the singers whose voices we relish intensely but whose labours we often criticize so wantonly?

May 2020 / Articles

Seeing Double

In the first of a series of Beethoven-inspired articles, John Allison finds parallels between the composer and Goya.

April 2020 / Articles

Opera In The Time Of Covid

Michael Chance talks to John Allison

March 2020 / Articles

Orpheus In Opera

Christopher Webber follows the Orpheus myth through opera

March 2018 / Articles

Nibelung treasure

Jerrold Northrop Moore on an unrecognized source for Wagner’s ‘Ring’

December 2017 / Articles

The Italian coach Matteo Dalle Fratte talks to Henrietta Bredin

November 2017 / Articles

Dima Undimmed

Richard Fairman pays tribute to Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

June 2016 / Articles

The New Philanthropy

Yehuda Shapiro on the FEDORA prizes

September 2015 / Articles

Opera’s Poet of Nostalgia

Jack Sullivan explores the operatic life of Frederick Delius

August 2015 / Articles

Endless Pleasure?

Jonathan Keates on the staging of Handel’s oratorios

July 2015 / Articles

Too Hot for the Bolshoy

It might seem a bit of an exaggeration to claim that a single review could change the course of musical history…

May 2015 / Articles

Der ‘Jahrhundertsänger’

John Warrack pays tribute to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

May 2015 / Articles

Guilty Pleasure

William Bolcom discusses Milhaud with George Loomis (from May 2015)

May 2015 / Articles

Rarity Value

Yehuda Shapiro reflects on recent repertoire trends

April 2015 / Articles

Twilight of the tickets

Robert Turnbull investigates upheaval at Wagner societies worldwide

April 2015 / Articles

Living Opera

Fort Worth Opera’s Darren K. Woods on setting a new festival agenda

February 2015 / Articles

English International

John Berry talks to John Allison about ENO\’s co-production policy

January 2015 / Articles

That Broadway Sound

Roger Pines looks at how vocalism in musical theatre has evolved over the decades

November 2014 / Articles

Karita Mattila’s first Emilia Marty

A burst of star power dominated SAN FRANCISCO OPERA’S final fall production. On November 10 Karita Mattila met Emilia Marty for the first time in her career in a new production of Janáèek’s Makropoulos Case…

November 2013 / Articles

Toulouse

Encapsulating all the creative differences that were soon to terminate the Brecht-Weill collaboration, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny is a work that positively invites directors and conductors to take different aesthetic sides.

May 2013 / Articles

The Shock of The New

Richard Fairman revisits Charles Mackerras’s thoughts on the premiere of ‘Don Giovanni’

December 2012 / Articles

A Princess Comes Home

Ken Smith explores how ‘Turandot’ became China’s national opera.

October 2012 / Articles

An imperfect Wagnerite

Rodney Milnes on a stormy on-off love affair.

September 2012 / Articles

Alla Polacca

Polish music has probably never been better represented around the world, and yet sadly it is still true to say that most music-lovers would be hard pressed to name more than half a dozen Polish composers and almost certainly no one earlier than Chop

July 2012 / Articles, People

Ildar Abdrazakov

To be young, good-looking and the owner of a fabulous bass voice is a cruel twist of fate. Composers have rarely favoured low voices for their heroes and lovers.

September 2011 / Articles

Sparkle restored

George Loomis sees Ruslan and Lyudmila in Moscow’s renovated Bolshoy Theatre

July 2011 / Articles

Rolando Villazón in Lyon

By Hugh Canning

July 2011 / Articles

Liszt & the Opera: Arbiter of Taste

In Liszt’s bicentenary year, Tim Ashley examines the composer\’s relationship with opera…

May 2011 / Articles

Boy Wonder

Nico Muhly talks to Kristin Cowdin.

March 2011 / Articles, People

The Price of perfection

This issue was to have marked Dame Margaret Price’s 70th birthday, which she would have celebrated on April 13. Sadly, she died of a heart attack early on January 28 at home on Ceibwr Bay in Wales…

February 2011 / Articles

House of the Midnight Sun

Amanda Holloway visits the new-look Icelandic Opera

January 2011 / Articles

‘Vissi d’arte’: Angela Gheorghiu talks to Jon Tolansky

Angela Gheorghiu was previously profiled in the March 1999 issue of opera, and at that time her now legendary appearance as Violetta at the Royal Opera House was still a relatively recent wonder…

December 2010 / Articles

Francesca gets her gun

George Loomis meets Glimmerglass’s new boss, Francesca Zambello

October 2010 / Articles, People

Marilyn Horne—tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland

Marilyn Horne’s tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland.

August 2010 / Articles

David Syrus celebrate 40 years at the Royal Opera

The Royal Opera’s 1971-2 season, which opened with the Ring conducted by Edward Downes, featured Nilsson as Elektra under Solti…

July 2010 / Articles

Alberto Zedda

By virtue of the nature of their work, conductors blessed with longevity are able to sustain their careers for much longer than singers or even instrumentalists…

February 2010 / Articles

Interview with Eva-Maria Westbroek

In a relatively short time, the Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek has established herself as one of the Royal Opera’s most versatile and exciting guest stars…

July 2009 / Articles

The Death of Italian Opera

The history of Italian opera is typically drawn as a continuously developing artistic tradition lasting some 300 years, from the early 17th century to Puccini’s Turandot, first performed in 1926…

October 2008 / Articles

Critical condition

Brian Kellow mourns the disappearing art of writing about voices

July 2008 / Articles

Seattle

My wife’s first Lucia was Sutherland, mine was Sills. So you can imagine our astonishment at being left breathless by seattle opera’s new Bride of Lammermoor, Aleksandra Kurzak..

June 2008 / Articles

In the Key of Dreams

David Pountney on Martinu, the great experimenter

January 2008 / Articles

Arabian Opera Nights

John Allison on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Baghdad opera house.

July 2004 / Articles

Marriage Guidance

Dennis Marks at Opera Europa’s Barcelona Forum