September 2016 Volume 67 No 9 Editor John Allison Deputy Editors Erica Jeal Henrietta Bredin Commercial Director Megan Jackson Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman George Hall Fiona Maddocks Roger Parker 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 Digital edition Exact Editions www.exacteditions.com/opera Advertising Jane Stoggles Cabbell Publishing Ltd Telephone: 020 3603 7940 email: jane@cabbell.co.uk Front cover Louis Andriessen’ s ‘Theatre of the World’ at Dutch National Opera (see pp. 1148-9) (photo: Ruth Walz)

Opera, September 2016

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

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By the Editor 1077 People 446: Mariusz Treliński

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

George Loomis 1084 Readers’ letters 1086 A never-ending story

Giancarlo Landini on the singers of Norma 1094 Newsdesk 1098 L’amico Fritz Half a century after Fritz Wunderlich’s untimely death, Gerhard Persché recalls the tenor ’s impact 1104 Obituaries 1106 Opera around the world 1163 Opera in Britain 1193 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 1197 Opera on CD 1206 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Geneva; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 1215 Classified advertisements 1216 My opera city …

Daniela Barcellona

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