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Contents 20 FRONT OF HOUSE MAIN STAGE THE CRITICAL VIEW 5 EDITORIAL How could the Royal Opera House get it so wrong? 6 FEEDBACK 8-13 NEWS & NOTES 20 COVER FEATURE The great bel canto 40 UNDER STUDY Long and short- tenor of our time, Juan term courses for the Diego Fl6rez tells us opera enthusiast how he keeps on top 50-63 LIVE REVIEWS Gotterdiimmerung at the Met I Opera de Lyon's Puccini Plus Festival I Donizetti, Massenet and Cavalli in Paris I of the demands of the 42 LEADER OF THE PACK New productions in London, virtuosic music that he While his school friends Edinburgh, Belfast and Mumbai sings, and discusses his were watching football, Barcelona's Liceu reverses work with poor children bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni MULTIMEDIA plans for closure I Cape in his native Peru headed to the opera. Today, Town Opera UK tour he takes starring roles on 64 NEW RELEASES announced I Joyce 28 POSTCARD FROM .. . the international stage Opera on CD, DVD DiDonato wins Grarnmy Benelux - the historic and Blu-ray Award I Star of stage union ofBelgium, 44 OPERA BLUFF and screen turns 100 I the Netherlands and Become an instant 66 BOOKS Technology brings lost Luxembourg: a tiny expert on Franz Lehir's The Opera Cooks: World opera houses back to European region that The Merry Widow Stars at the Stove life I and more ... punches well above IN THE WINGS 16 TALENT SPOTIING A focus on emerging its weight when it comes to opera 38 FESTIVAL FOCUS 47 SQUILLO BACK STAGE Michael White has lunch in Lyon to find out why 68 COMPANY FOCUS young audiences in Opera North -leading regional Selected operatic highlights France's 'southern capital' opera in England since 1978 talent: British conductor in unique festival settings are flocking to the opera Jeremy Carnall I from the summer 78 GRAND FINALE Recent and forthcoming opera season ahead Gounod's Faust finds competitions unexpected resonances in a South African village 4 www. opera now. eo. u k

Contents

20

FRONT OF HOUSE MAIN STAGE

THE CRITICAL VIEW

5 EDITORIAL

How could the

Royal Opera House get it so wrong?

6 FEEDBACK

8-13 NEWS & NOTES

20 COVER FEATURE

The great bel canto

40 UNDER STUDY

Long and short-

tenor of our time, Juan term courses for the

Diego Fl6rez tells us opera enthusiast how he keeps on top

50-63 LIVE REVIEWS

Gotterdiimmerung at the Met I

Opera de Lyon's Puccini

Plus Festival I Donizetti,

Massenet and Cavalli in Paris I

of the demands of the 42 LEADER OF THE PACK New productions in London, virtuosic music that he While his school friends Edinburgh, Belfast and Mumbai sings, and discusses his were watching football,

Barcelona's Liceu reverses work with poor children bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni MULTIMEDIA plans for closure I Cape in his native Peru headed to the opera. Today, Town Opera UK tour he takes starring roles on 64 NEW RELEASES announced I Joyce 28 POSTCARD FROM .. . the international stage Opera on CD, DVD DiDonato wins Grarnmy Benelux - the historic and Blu-ray Award I Star of stage union ofBelgium, 44 OPERA BLUFF and screen turns 100 I the Netherlands and Become an instant 66 BOOKS Technology brings lost Luxembourg: a tiny expert on Franz Lehir's The Opera Cooks: World opera houses back to European region that The Merry Widow Stars at the Stove life I and more ... punches well above

IN THE WINGS

16 TALENT SPOTIING

A focus on emerging its weight when it comes to opera

38 FESTIVAL FOCUS

47 SQUILLO

BACK STAGE

Michael White has lunch in Lyon to find out why 68 COMPANY FOCUS

young audiences in

Opera North -leading regional

Selected operatic highlights France's 'southern capital' opera in England since 1978

talent: British conductor in unique festival settings are flocking to the opera Jeremy Carnall I from the summer 78 GRAND FINALE Recent and forthcoming opera season ahead Gounod's Faust finds competitions unexpected resonances in a South African village

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