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Contents FRONT OF HOUSE EDITORIAL What lies ahead for British opera? NEWS & NOTES Opera bears the brunt of UK funding cuts • New directions in Zagreb • Royal Opera House appoints music director • Frankfurt Opera fundraises for Iranians 10 The making of The Child in Striped Pyjamas 14 The death of English National Opera 16 28 CONGRESS OF LIBRARY BRENNAN MARC REVIEWS - LIVE REVIEWS UK Royal Opera House Aida (36); UK Round up Bampton Classical Opera Fool Moon; ROH Linbury’s Last Days; Grange Park Opera Gods of the Game (38-40); USA Seattle Opera Tristan und Isolde (42) The Metropolitan Opera, New York Medea (44) EUROPE Rossini in Wildbad Ermione (46) Musik Theater an der Wien Cunning Little Vixen (48) Verdi Festival Parma La Forza del destino (50) Teatro La Fenice, Venice Peter Grimes (52) City focus: Athens Don Giovanni; Farnace; Lise Davidsen (54) - RECORDINGS 58 Film review: Fuoco Sacro – a search for the sacred fire of song 61-63 New releases on CD, Digital & AV including: Diana Damrau, My Christmas; French bel canto arias with Lisette Oropesa; New recordings of La traviata and Adriana Lecouvreur; Giordano’s Siberia on DVD; Giulio Cesare at the Theater an der Wien 64 Signor Gaetano: Donizetti arias, with tenor Javier Camarena DUNLOP/DECCA IS : CHR PHOTO COVER - SPOTLIGHT Worldwide Opera Guide and answers to this issue’s Quiz (p71) ARNSTEIN SVEN ‘In general, I don’t simply approach my voice as something that always has to aspire to beauty, but as a colour-palette through which each role comes to life.’ – Danielle de Niese CONTENTS 44 38 SOHL MART Y Cover feature Soprano Danielle de Niese is a remarkable phenomenon in the opera world, excelling in a wide range of genres, from Baroque to contemporary musical theatre. She talks to Helena Matheopoulos about her latest role in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life, currently at English National Opera, a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas Legendary Voices: Luisa Tetrazzini Soprano Luisa Tetrazzini’s colourful life off stage has tended to eclipse her considerable vocal Boris Godunov at La Scala Kasper Holten introduces his new production of Boris Godunov which opens the new season of La Scala, as is the tradition, on 7 December, the feast day of Sant’Ambrogio, the patron saint of Milan artistry. A new study throws the spotlight on her beautiful, passionate singing, as preserved on record Travels with my Opera Glasses Professor Anthony Ogus travels through France on a fulfilling operatic odyssey that takes him from the Mediterranean coast to the northern plains Books Round-up Opera from a wig-maker’s perspective; A new biography of Wagner’s di cult wife; and more… My Favourite Things Director Richard Jones gets nostalgic for his days as a restaurant pianist Quiz What did the man mistake his wife for? Test your opera knowledge www.operanow.co.uk OperaNow December 2022 3

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Contents

FRONT OF HOUSE EDITORIAL What lies ahead for British opera?

NEWS & NOTES Opera bears the brunt of UK funding cuts • New directions in Zagreb • Royal Opera House appoints music director • Frankfurt Opera fundraises for Iranians 10 The making of The Child in Striped Pyjamas 14 The death of English National Opera

16 28

CONGRESS

OF

LIBRARY

BRENNAN

MARC

REVIEWS - LIVE REVIEWS UK Royal Opera House Aida (36); UK Round up Bampton Classical Opera Fool Moon; ROH Linbury’s Last Days; Grange Park Opera Gods of the Game (38-40); USA Seattle Opera Tristan und Isolde (42) The Metropolitan Opera, New York Medea (44) EUROPE Rossini in Wildbad Ermione (46) Musik Theater an der Wien Cunning Little Vixen (48) Verdi Festival Parma La Forza del destino (50) Teatro La Fenice, Venice Peter Grimes (52) City focus: Athens Don Giovanni; Farnace; Lise Davidsen (54) - RECORDINGS 58 Film review: Fuoco Sacro – a search for the sacred fire of song 61-63 New releases on CD, Digital & AV including: Diana Damrau, My Christmas; French bel canto arias with Lisette Oropesa; New recordings of La traviata and Adriana Lecouvreur; Giordano’s Siberia on DVD; Giulio Cesare at the Theater an der Wien 64 Signor Gaetano: Donizetti arias, with tenor Javier Camarena

DUNLOP/DECCA

IS

: CHR

PHOTO

COVER

- SPOTLIGHT Worldwide Opera Guide and answers to this issue’s Quiz (p71)

ARNSTEIN

SVEN

‘In general, I don’t simply approach my voice as something that always has to aspire to beauty, but as a colour-palette through which each role comes to life.’ – Danielle de Niese

CONTENTS

44 38

SOHL

MART Y

Cover feature Soprano Danielle de Niese is a remarkable phenomenon in the opera world, excelling in a wide range of genres, from Baroque to contemporary musical theatre. She talks to Helena Matheopoulos about her latest role in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life,

currently at English National Opera, a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas Legendary Voices: Luisa Tetrazzini Soprano Luisa Tetrazzini’s colourful life off stage has tended to eclipse her considerable vocal

Boris Godunov at La Scala Kasper Holten introduces his new production of Boris Godunov which opens the new season of La Scala, as is the tradition, on 7 December, the feast day of Sant’Ambrogio, the patron saint of Milan artistry. A new study throws the spotlight on her beautiful, passionate singing, as preserved on record Travels with my Opera Glasses Professor Anthony Ogus travels through France on a fulfilling operatic odyssey that takes him from the Mediterranean coast to the northern plains Books Round-up Opera from a wig-maker’s perspective; A new biography of Wagner’s di cult wife; and more… My Favourite Things Director Richard Jones gets nostalgic for his days as a restaurant pianist Quiz What did the man mistake his wife for? Test your opera knowledge www.operanow.co.uk

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