June 2008 Volume 59 No 6
Editor John Allison Marketing Director Alice Lindsay Deputy Editor Erica Jeal Subscriptions Manager Megan Jackson Publishing Assistant Susan Randall
Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman Michael Kennedy Fiona Maddocks Rodney Milnes (Chairman) Roger Parker Andrew Porter
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Front cover: Christine Rice as Ariadne in the premiere of Birtwistle’s ‘The Minotaur’ at Covent Garden (see pp. 713-16) (photo: Bill Cooper)
Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes
629 Mutiny at the Monnaie By the Editor
630 He’s the boss Philip Langridge and Stephen Langridge in conversation with Erica Jeal
634 Readers’ letters
636 People 346: Ferruccio Furlanetto Hugh Canning
646 The Cinderella soprano Douglas Smith on the remarkable life of Praskovia Kovalyova
652 Newsdesk
655 Building a tradition Julian Grant writes from Beijing
659 Obituary
660 Opera around the world
701 Opera in Britain
720 Opera on CD
724 Opera on DVD
734 Opera books
735 Coming events including plans for the UK houses (with first nights of the 2008-9 season at ENO), Vienna (Staatsoper), Amsterdam; ‘We hear that ...’; Opera calendar home and abroad
751 Classified advertisements
752 If I came back as ... Hans Sachs Mark Elder
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