February 2009 Volume 60 No 2
Editor John Allison Deputy Editor Erica Jeal Publisher Fletcher Dhew Subscriptions Manager Megan Jackson
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Front cover: Marlis Petersen as Lulu in Chicago (see pp. 196-8) (photo: Dan Rest)
Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes
131 More than an opera house By the Editor
132 Readers’letters
136 People 354: Vivica Genaux George Hall
144 Lyric misgivings Colin Eatock on the operas Mendelssohn didn’t write
151 Newsdesk
153 Overgrown paths Dennis Marks reports from Brno
159 Richard Hickox, 1948-2008 Michael Kennedy
161 Richard Van Allan, 1935-2008 George Christie
162 Obituary
168 Opera around the world
202 Opera in Britain
220 Opera on CD
232 Opera on DVD
236 Opera books
241 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Catania, Santiago; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad
255 Classified advertisements
256 If I came back as … (the young)Siegfried John Rockwell
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