Opera Now

Opera Now captures the drama, colour and vitality of one of the most powerful of all the performing arts, showcasing the creative spirit of opera both on stage and behind the scenes. In addition, our 32-year magazine archive is now available to subscribers to our ‘digital’ and ‘print & digital’ packages, allowing you to explore more than 270 issues of opera history.

Opera Now

Cultural democracy or operatic distruction?

MELISSA GREGORY Mezzo soprano

GRAMOPHONE PRESENTS… MY CLASSICAL MUSIC

Royal Opera House Orchestra accepts new pay offer from management

News in Brief

A third of musicians experiencing poor mental health

Melissa Gregory wins Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition

Keel Watson • 9 August 1964 – 8 November 2023

IN OperaNow SPRING 2024

My non-career in opera • The compulsion to make stuff will never go away, but now I have a new compulsion: not to be a starving artist

Prompter • The future of opera is about more than new writing

Voice of a nation – a letter from Stockholm • Music for voice at the Konserthuset launches a new collaboration in a time of artistic questioning for Sweden

Fit for a king • Opening the year with new recording of Lully’s Atys, conductor Christophe Rousset shares the secrets to interpreting French opera and finding a sense of musical identity

Language, drama and power • UK opera companies continue to translate operas into English, but why? Soprano Claire Booth presents her research into opera in the English language, asking whether it crosses the barrier to accessibility that companies have us believe

Cultivating connection • CEO of performing arts database Operabase, Ulrike Köstinger shares the advancements happening in the opera tech world, as well as the keys to effective leadership

Opera Now PRESENTS… The Greatest Tenors • Their music, their lives and their legacies

Moving mountains • A meeting with German baritone Christian Gerhaher as he passes on wisdom to young singers in the Bavarian Alps

Introducing… MUSICALS • Musicals is the new magazine celebrating the World of Musical Theatre, from the West End to Broadway and beyond

The first operatic millionaire • From provincial choir boy to Met opera star: a look at the life of legendary tenor Enrico Caruso

The opera lover’s essential guide

Die schöne Müllerin

Wexford Festival Opera 2023

Jephtha

At the Venice Fair

Mythomania

The Raven

Salome

Japan

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

New releases

Lasting change

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Spotlight Jan – Feb 2024

The Opera Now Quiz • Do you know your Puccini from your Ponchielli? Test your wits in this month’s set of fiendish questions for the dedicated opera buff (with a clue or two in the pictures)

Behind the scenes with… PAUL PYANT – LIGHTING DESIGNER • Beginning his career at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, British lighting designer Paul Pyant has been nominated for several Olivier awards, winning one in 2014, with credits spanning musicals, theatre, ballet and opera. He shares the background to his remarkable career