July 2022 Volume 73 No. 7 Editor John Allison Deputy Editors Erica Jeal Henrietta Bredin Commercial Director Megan Jackson Editorial Board Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman George Hall Fiona Maddocks Roger Parker Editorial Offices 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE Telephone: 020 8563 8893 editor@opera.co.uk www.opera.co.uk operamagazine @operamagazine @opera_magazine Subscriptions and customer services Esco, Trinity House, Sculpins Lane, Wethersfield, Braintree CM7 4AY Telephone: 01371 851804 Fax: 01371 851808 opera@escosubs.co.uk Digital edition Exact Editions support@exacteditions.com www.exacteditions.com/opera Advertising Russell Bass, Cabbells Ltd Telephone: 020 3603 7937 russell@cabbells.uk Front cover Teresa Berganza as Purcell’s Dido at Aix-en-Provence in 1960 (see pp. 793-800) (photo: Serge Lido)

Opera, July 2022

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

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By the Editor 790 Newsdesk 793 Teresa Berganza, 1933-2020

Max Loppert, Plácido Domingo, Joan Matabosch and Christopher Webber pay tribute 801 People 507: Jakub Hrůša

John Allison 808 ‘It’s our job to be curious’

Sebastian F. Schwarz talks to John-Pierre Joyce 813 Readers’ letters 814 Built to last

Alexandra Coghlan on 20 years of young artists at Covent Garden 818 Obituaries 823 Opera around the world 869 Opera in the UK 888 Opera on CD 896 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 900 Opera books 902 Coming events including plans for the UK houses and the 2022-3 seasons at Scottish Opera and Irish National Opera; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 911 Classified advertisements 912 For the record

Judith Howarth

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