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New life for a Dead City

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NEWS & NOTES

San Francisco Opera launches free online hub

New artistic director of Finnish National Opera appointed

European Unions • After 20 years at the helm of Opera Europa, Nicholas Payne is stepping down from his role as general director. Over the past two decades the organisation has been transformed into a representative and influential body of opera professionals working across the continent

Beyond boundaries • Director/choreographer Deborah Colker discusses her a new production of Osvaldo Golijov’s 2003 opera Ainadamar, celebrating the passion-filled life and loves of poet/playwright Federico García Lorca

Manly pursuits • The French opera singer Ludovic Tézier is the great Verdi baritone of his generation, combining gallic refinement with a virile Mediterranean warmth and charm

Dreams and awakenings • The works of Erich Korngold are enjoying a renaissance, and none more so than his beguiling 1920 opera Die tote Stadt, a youthful masterpiece that has been embraced anew by opera houses around the world. Coming soon is an ambitious new production celebrating the 40th anniversary of Opera Colorado in Denver

CHIARA MUTI: The Director’s Cut • Chiara Muti is the multi-talented, highly intelligent and beautiful only daughter among conductor Riccardo Muti’s three children. Well known in her native Italy as a gifted stage and film actress, she directed her first plays in 2007 and 10 years later made an initial and highly successful foray into opera with Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Naples, conducted by her father

Exploring new worlds • As an adjunct to its support of the Film Biennale in Venice, the firm of Cartier presented a performance of Eugenie’s Tears, an intriguing work that combines real-life theatre with virtual reality to create a new kind of operatic experience

Hıgh handsome • The Italian singer Raffele Pe has joined the high fliers in a new Golden Age of countertenor singing that is transforming performances of Baroque opera around the world

Vivaldi premiere: Il Giustino at Drottningholm

The long and short of it… • A round-up of Fringe and small-scale opera in and around London

Silla

La traviata

Opera Philadelphia

Don Giovanni

Die Walküre

Giulio Cesare

Rusalka Concert performance

New releases

Opera Now CHOICE

Spotlight Nov – Dec 2022

My Favourite Things

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)