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MMXXII I The home of Country House opera in South West England featuring renowned soloists, a full orchestra and a large chorus of emerging young artists Marquee bar | Picnics | Formal Dining Jules Massenet LE ROI DE LAHORE Sung in French with English surtitles | 24 to 29 July 2023 | dorsetopera.com Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Sung in Italian with English surtitles | 24 to 29 July 2023 | dorsetopera.com Coade Theatre, Bryanston, Blandford Forum Box Office: dorsetopera.com 07570 366 186 Opera, April 2023 Original design by Augusto Ferri for the first Italian production of Le roi de Lahore in 1878 | Archivio Storico Ricordi 1
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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 369

MMXXII I

The home of Country House opera in South West England featuring renowned soloists, a full orchestra and a large chorus of emerging young artists

Marquee bar | Picnics | Formal Dining

Jules Massenet

LE ROI DE LAHORE

Sung in French with English surtitles | 24 to 29 July 2023 | dorsetopera.com

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Sung in Italian with English surtitles | 24 to 29 July 2023 | dorsetopera.com

Coade Theatre, Bryanston, Blandford Forum

Box Office: dorsetopera.com

07570 366 186

Opera, April 2023

Original design by Augusto Ferri for the first Italian production of Le roi de Lahore in 1878 | Archivio Storico Ricordi

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