June 2007 Volume 58 No 6

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Front cover: Anna Netrebko (see pp. 644-51) (photo: Kasskara/DG)

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643 Dream on By the Editor 644 People 336:Anna Netrebko Hugh Canning 651 Newsdesk 654 Dutch courage Pierre Audi discusses his Holland Festival plans with Willem Bruls 656 Readers’letters 659 First principles Will Crutchfield talks to George Loomis about his work at Caramoor 664 Colin Graham, 1931-2007 Steuart Bedford, Keith Grant and Rodney Milnes 668 Edmund Tracey, 1927-2007 Rodney Milnes and David Cairns 672 Opera around the world 709 Opera in Britain 731 Opera on CD 737 Opera on DVD 746 Opera books 748 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, new season plans for Covent Garden and ENO, Munich (Staatsoper), Amsterdam, Barcelona, Geneva; ‘We hear that ...’; Opera calendar home and abroad 767 Classified advertisements 768 If I came back as ... Scarpia Yehuda Shapiro

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