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AT THE HEART OF THE OPERA WORLD

A YEAR IN ITALY Drama and passion from La Scala to Sicily

BRING IN THE NEW Young artists in Amsterdam

CELEBRATING A LEGEND Lisa della Casa’s powers of attraction

CITY SLICKERS The rising fortunes of

Vilnius City Opera

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Cornelia Beskow’s sensational Senta in Malmö Monstrous Child at the

Royal Opera House Asters – the flowering of a new era for Japanese opera

VENERA GIMADIEVAThe soprano from Tatarstan who’s making all the right choices

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