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2013 / 14 richard strauss 150th birthday yOu Can lOOk FOrward tO: Renée Fleming, Anja Harteros, Evelyn Herlitzius, Sophie Koch, Waltraud Meier, Camilla Nylund, Marjorie Owens, Romy Petrick, Anne Schwanewilms, Barbara Senator, Nina Stemme, Erika Sunnegårdh, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Rudolf Buchbinder, Gautier Capuçon, Adrian Eröd, Burkhard Fritz, Thomas Hampson, Jürgen Müller, René Pape, Peter Rose, Tómas Tómasson, Georg Zeppenfeld ElEktra Christian Thielemann, Barbara Frey Premiere 19 January 2014 22, 25, 31 January & 22, 29 June 2014 Guntram (OPEra COnCErt) Omer Meir Wellber Premiere 23 February 2014 28 February & 2 march 2014 ariadnE auF naxOs Omer Meir Wellber, Marco Arturo Marelli 9, 16 march & 15, 18 april 2014 salOmE Cornelius Meister, Peter Mussbach 21, 25, 27 march 2014 FEuErsnOt (OPEn air) Stefan Klingele Premiere 7 June 2014 9, 10 June 2014 lEGEndEn – HOmmaGE an riCHard strauss (BallEt) Paul Connelly, Stijn Celis, Alexei Ratmansky Premiere 28 June 2014 30 June & 5, 9, 11 July 2014 Salzburg Easter Festival 2014 araBElla Christian Thielemann, Florentine Klepper coproduction with Salzburg Easter Festival Premiere 12 april 2014 21 april 2014 The focus on Richard Strauss will continue in the programme for the season 2014 / 15. In addition to this the RICHARD-STRAUSS-DAYS will be held from 6 to 20 November 2014 at the Semperoper Dresden with performances of CAPRICCIO, DAPHNE, ARABELLA and the ballet LEGENDEN amongst others. For more information please visit semperoper.de. Reservations for the RICHARD-STRAUSS-DAYS can be made as early as December 2013. 7. symPHOny COnCErt Christian Thielemann 2, 3, 4 march 2014 8. symPHOny COnCErt Christoph Eschenbach 30, 31 march & 1 april 2014 4. EvEninG rECital Christian Thielemann 15 may 2014 11. symPHOny COnCErt Christian Thielemann 8, 9 June 2014 BirtHday COnCErt Christian Thielemann 11 June 2014 klassik PiCkniCkt Christian Thielemann 12 July 2014 Information and Tickets T +49 (0) 351 49 11 705 bestellung@semperoper.de semperoper.de Opera, January 2014 1
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January 2014 Volume 65 No 1 Editor John Allison Deputy Editors Erica Jeal Hugo Shirley Commercial Director Megan Jackson Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman George Hall Michael Kennedy Fiona Maddocks Rodney Milnes (Chairman) Roger Parker Andrew Porter Editorial Offices 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE Telephone: 020 8563 8893 Fax: 020 8563 8635 email: editor@opera.co.uk Website: www.opera.co.uk operamagazine @operamagazine Subscriptions Esco, Trinity House, Sculpins Lane, Wethersfield Braintree CM7 4AY Telephone: 01371 851804 Fax: 01371 851808 email: opera@escosubs.co.uk Advertising Jane Stoggles Cabbell Publishing Ltd Telephone: 020 3603 7940 email: jane@cabbell.co.uk Front cover Luca Pisaroni (photo: Marco Borggreve) 5 Calm after the storm By the Editor   6 People 418: Luca Pisaroni Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes Anna Picard   13 Readers’ letters   18 ‘Brokeback’: the opera Charles Wuorinen and Annie Proulx talk to David Shengold   22 Newsdesk   26 L’Histoire de Manon … Christopher Webber on the operatic afterlife of Prévost’s heroine   31 Obituary   34 Opera around the world   81 Opera in Britain   98 Opera on CD 108 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 110 Opera books 113 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Palermo; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 127 Classified advertisements 128 Largo al factotum … Terry King Opera, January 2014 1

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January 2014 Volume 65 No 1 Editor John Allison Deputy Editors Erica Jeal Hugo Shirley Commercial Director Megan Jackson Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman George Hall Michael Kennedy Fiona Maddocks Rodney Milnes (Chairman) Roger Parker Andrew Porter Editorial Offices 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE Telephone: 020 8563 8893 Fax: 020 8563 8635 email: editor@opera.co.uk Website: www.opera.co.uk operamagazine @operamagazine Subscriptions Esco, Trinity House, Sculpins Lane, Wethersfield Braintree CM7 4AY Telephone: 01371 851804 Fax: 01371 851808 email: opera@escosubs.co.uk Advertising Jane Stoggles Cabbell Publishing Ltd Telephone: 020 3603 7940 email: jane@cabbell.co.uk Front cover Luca Pisaroni (photo: Marco Borggreve)

5 Calm after the storm

By the Editor   6 People 418: Luca Pisaroni

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

Anna Picard   13 Readers’ letters   18 ‘Brokeback’: the opera

Charles Wuorinen and Annie Proulx talk to David Shengold   22 Newsdesk   26 L’Histoire de Manon …

Christopher Webber on the operatic afterlife of Prévost’s heroine   31 Obituary   34 Opera around the world   81 Opera in Britain   98 Opera on CD 108 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 110 Opera books 113 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Palermo; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 127 Classified advertisements 128 Largo al factotum …

Terry King

Opera, January 2014

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