November 2014 Volume 65 No 11 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 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 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 Ana María Martínez as Carmen in Santa Fe (see pp. 1406-7) (photo: Ken Howard)

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1349 The domino effect By the Editor 1350 People 427: Marie-Jeanne Lecca Nick Kimberley 1357 Readers’ letters 1360 Staging the Secession Hugo Shirley 1366 Newsdesk 1370 Two for one Rupert Christiansen on an emerging breed of designer-directors 1376 Paintings that sing John Allison explores artists’ responses to 1383 Obituary 1387 Opera around the world 1412 Opera in Britain 1442 Opera on CD 1452 Opera books 1456 Coming events including plans for the UK houses; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 1472 Largo al factotum … Douglas Lebrecht

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