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The Maria Callas centenary – honouring her whole life experience

AVA DODD Soprano

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NEWS & NOTES

Geller Institute collaborates on dementia-friendly opera

News in Brief

Jasmin White wins the 2023 Queen Sonja Singing Competition

John Eliot Gardiner to withdraw from conducting ‘until next year’

Apple Music partners with Salzburg

IN Opera Now NOVEMBER 2023

A newbie’s guide to Glyndebourne • The East Sussex opera house’s summer season is synonymous with British opera. But there are plenty who are new to its charms, including bassoonist Alison Wormell

Prompter • How much can a building influence the way we perform, perceive, enjoy and engage with opera?

Risk and trust: a letter from Aldeburgh • A new opera, exciting residencies and an intriguing exploration of the voice underpinned the latest instalment of the ever-innovative Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk

What means to me • The legacy of soprano Maria Callas continues to move and inspire singers. Helena Matheopoulos reflects on conversations throughout the years about why Callas’s spirit is so immortal

Dealing with disorder • Celebrating Maria Callas also means remembering the body-image pressures present in the industry

Secrets unearthed • From slavery to a spy ring, Intelligence – Jake Heggie’s new work about two women in the American Civil War – premieres at Houston Grand Opera this month

The limitless stage • Modern-day musical polymath Yshani Perinpanayagam talks about composing, directing and performing, ahead of her new arrangement of The Coronation of Poppea for English Touring Opera

Following Mozart • Think you know Mozart? Ian Page and his ensemble’s Mozart 250 project continues to reveal new insights about the great composer

Burying bel canto • Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti aren’t exactly rarities, but their works – and those of their contemporaries – are becoming increasingly scarce in opera seasons around the world. Happily, New York’s Teatro Nuovo is on a mission to preserve this iconic Italian style

The Cutting edge • A narcissistic surgeon and his entourage spin a web of lies in Mythomania, Gothenburg Opera’s new work – with a perfect plot for modern times

BBC Proms 2023

Longborough Festival Opera

Das Rheingold

Munich Opera Festival 2023 Bayerische Staatsoper

Festival della Valle d’Itria Martina Franca

Greek National Opera

Die Walküre

GRAMOPHONE PRESENTS… MY CLASSICAL MUSIC

Secrets of the forest • Panned by some critics as the ‘well-meaning work of a dilettante’, Ethel Smyth’s opera Der Wald (‘The Forest’) enjoys a revival thanks to a new recording by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

New releases

CHOICE

CAPTURING CALLAS • Warner Classics marks Callas’s centenary with a 135-disc celebratory boxed set

The opera lover’s essential guide

An Austrian abroad • Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera

Spotlight Oct – Nov 2023 • Production Highlights • World Premieres • Exceptional Casts

The Opera Now Maria Callas Quiz • Do you know your Dove from your Donizetti? Test your wits in this month’s set of fiendish questions for the dedicated...