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FRONT OF HOUSE
EDITORIAL Looking across opera’s life-cycle YOUNG ARTIST OF THE MONTH Meeting rising star, conductor Adam Hickox - NEWS & NOTES Opera achievements at the Olivier Awards, Opera Rara announces a recording project, Paris Opera Play is launched and mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston writes to her daughter about body image in opera
REVIEWS - LIVE REVIEWS UK English National Opera The Rhinegold (34); Ulster Touring Opera The Barber of Seville (36) Scottish Opera Il Triccio (38) EUROPE Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Aida (40) Country Focus – France (43) USA Metropolitan Opera, New York Lohengrin (46)
- RECORDINGS New releases on CD, Digital & AV including: Turandot – a new studio recording from Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia and other recordings from The Bach Choir and Bevan Family Consort as well as Karajan’s Don Carlo from 1986 captured on film; Opera Now Choice: Michael Spyres’s new album Contratenor comes with a glowing recommendation
- SPOTLIGHT Worldwide Opera Guide and answers to this issue’s Quiz (p 63)
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‘We live in a world where everyone gets bogged down in the smallest details of their lives... I think that means we miss the bigger picture’
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Cover feature British Soprano Mary Bevan emerges from a family of singers to find her own identity through recording collaborations, shining worldwide in major operatic roles Anna Pirozzi Soprano Anna Pirozzi takes us through the surprises of singing Turandot and the intense emotional world of Cherubini’s Medea at Greek National Opera Britten and Gloriana A disaster in post-war 1953, but Britten’s opera has seen tremendous revivals. David Patrick Stearns looks back over its history
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French Focus From Versailles to Paris, we take a look at the work of Christophe Rousset, Helen Charlston and the Opéra national de Paris and their performances this spring My Favourite Things Director Deborah Warner gives us a glimpse into her world through treasured moments Quiz How well do you know Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin? Test your opera knowledge in our monthly quiz
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Romeo and Juliet Joyce DiDonato and Cyrille Dubois shine in John Nelson’s new recording of Berlioz’s choral symphony www.operanow.co.uk
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