April 2023 Vol ume 74 No. 4 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 O ffices 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE Telephone: 020 8563 8893 editor@opera.co.uk www.opera.co.uk operamagazine @operamagazine @opera_magazine S ubscriptions 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 Elizabeth Llewellyn as Ariadne at Opera North (see pp. 461-2) (photo: Richard Hubert Smith)

Opera, April 2023

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

373 Greased smog By the Editor 374 Newsdesk 377 The most precious skill

The director Oksana Taranenko on working in Ukraine’s opera houses today 381 People 515: Latonia Moore

Roger Pines 388 An instinct for danger

Great singers in great roles: Thomas Allen talks to Rupert Christiansen about Don Giovanni 394 Readers’ letters 396 Second homes

Lidiya Yankovskaya talks to Sarah Noble 400 Obituaries 403 Opera around the world 447 Opera in the UK 464 Opera on CD 478 Opera on DVD and Bl u-ray 480 Opera books 483 Coming events including plans for the UK houses (with WNO’s 2023-4 season), Los Angeles and Toronto; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 495 Classified advertisements 496 For the record

Ramón Vargas

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