J une 2023 Vol ume 74 No. 6 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 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE editor@opera.co.uk www.opera.co.uk operamagazine @operamagazine @opera_magazine S ubscriptions and customer services Esco, Trinity House, Braintree CM7 4AY opera@escosubs.co.uk Digital edition Exact Editions support@exacteditions.com www.exacteditions.com/opera Advertising Russell Bass, Cabbells Ltd russell@cabbells.uk Front cover Hadley Dean Randerson and Myrtò Papatanasiu in ‘Bastarda’ at

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By the Editor 646 Newsdesk 650 People 517: Brenden Gunnell

Hugh Canning 656 Readers’ letters 659 Cancellation: an account

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John-Pierre Joyce on British operatic censorship 672

Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg talk to Brian Robins 675 Obituaries 679 734 747 Opera on CD 754 Opera books 756 Coming events season at the Royal Opera; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 767 768

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