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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’s life cycle

WOMEN & WAR

LOD

ADAM HICKOX Conductor

New director at New Zealand Opera

Paris Opera announces online streaming service

NEWS & NOTES • Olivier Awards celebrate achievements in London opera

Donizetti focus for Opera Rara

In memoriam: James Bowman (1941-2023)

News in Brief

Pretty Yende: the South African soprano on her journey to the Coronation • A vibrant musical programme for the King’s Coronation will include performances from bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel; soprano Pretty Yende and baritone Roderick Williams. At the Cap Rocat Festival launch in Madrid earlier this year, Helena Matheopolous caught up with Pretty Yende to find out how she is feeling ahead of this monumental occasion

What I’m really thinking • Opera and body image: a letter to my daughter

A Letter from Geneva

Second to none • Finding your identity as a singer when you come from a big family of successful musicians isn’t straightforward. Soprano Mary Bevan’s individuality as an artist has emerged as a bright, beautiful and unpretentious force for the good, intent on changing people’s minds about opera and its importance to society

Powerful Pirozzi • Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi talks about preparing star roles at Covent Garden and Greek National Opera

Majorca’s glistening new opera festival • Where sea and sand meets burgeoning culture, Festival Cap Rocat stands to serve the Balearic islands with the gift of world-class opera

A newly-anointed masterpiece • As post-war Britain celebrated the Queen’s coronation, Benjamin Britten’s 1953 opera became his one perceived operatic failure. But a revival has shown the timelessness of this royal work

LEGENDARY SINGERS: Virginia Zeani (1925-2023) • She sang the first Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites in 1957 and now her death is felt throughout the opera world. We look back at her extraordinary life and career

The Rhinegold

Barber of Seville

Il trittico

Aida

France

Lohengrin

New releases

Opera Now CHOICE

John Nelson -Berlioz Roméo et Juliette at the Paris Philharmonie

A matter of opinion

Spotlight May – June 2023 • YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO OPERA PERFORMANCES

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)