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.

Does identity compromise music?

ALYS ROBERTS Soprano • We catch up with the young soprano ahead of Out of Her Mouth at the Spitalfields Festival

Gustavo Dudamel to leave Paris Opéra

NEWS & NOTES • WHAT’S HAPPENING AND COMING UP IN THE OPERA WORLD

Royal Opera House names principal guest conductor

In memoriam: Kathryn Harries

Letters

News in Brief

Transcending national, cultural and religious barriers – founding Ulster Touring Opera

Prompter • In an age that puts emotions above facts, is it time to put the brakes on our intellectual superiority when talking about opera?

Beyond the opera in... Aix En Provence • As the festival gets underway at Aix, we look beyond the concert stage to the beauty of this medieval city

Opera on fire • Since the appointment of Giorgos Koumendakis as its artistic director, the Greek National Opera has risen to heights of unprecedented scale. We discover the secret to its continued success

Opera and identity • Performing at London’s first ‘Classical Pride’ event, bass-baritone Davóne Tines speaks about the importance of identity and expression in the life of an artist

When classical meets metal • Yamaha London’s fusion event brought together rock, metal, opera and everything in between

Sorrow and seduction: the psychology of Werther • We meet Ginger Costa-Jackson and Leonardo Capalbo ahead of Grange Park Opera’s production of Massenet’s emotionally-charged opera

Southwest Opera Alburquerque, New Mexico • As it celebrates 50 years of opera in the Chihuahuan Desert, we explore this groundbreaking opera company through its production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory

Coming to life • Finishing a season of ‘firsts’ with Don Carlo at Covent Garden, we speak to American tenor Brian Jagde about learning Verdi, his beginnings as a baritone and life on- and off-stage

10 Podcasts for the opera lover

The World’s Wife • Live Reviews

Tosca

Rusalka • Live Reviews

The Makropulos Case • Live Reviews

Vienna

Greek National Opera, Athens • Review by Helena Matheopolous • Photography by Andreas Simopoulos and Marilena Stafylidou

Live Reviews • Review by Yukiko Kishinami • Photography by Rikimaru Hotta/New National Theatre, Tokyo

Pride unveiled • A new album from tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas celebrates homosexuality through art song

New releases

RECORDING OF THE MONTH

Spotlight July – August 2023 • Production Highlights • World Premieres • Exceptional Casts

My Favourite Things • Annabel Arden’s multifaceted career spans the worlds of opera, theatre, broadcasting and acting. We catch up with her ahead of directing Donizetti’s L’elisir d ’amore at the Glyndebourne Festival

The Opera Now • 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)

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