Easter Festival ...................................... 854-5(p) Baltimore Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ................. 1224 Lyric Opera Baltimore ................................. 327 Bampton Classical Opera ............. 434, 1308-9(p) Young Singers’ Competition ........................ 152 Bangkok: Opera Siam .......................... 610-11(p) Barcelona Barcelona Symphony Orchestra ........ 290, 1401 Cape Town Opera ....................................... 1401 Gran Teatre del Liceu .....324, 728-9, 910-11(p),

937(p), 1122-3, 1401

Finances ................................................... 1081 Bard College see Annandale-on-Hudson Barga: Opera Barga .................................. 1523-4 Bari: Teatro Petruzzelli ......443-5(p), 1349, 1366 Finances ............................................. 133, 1223 ‘Bartolissima!’ by Hugh Canning .......... 391-6(p) Basel: Theater Basel...........604-5(p), 1280, 1500 Baugé Festival ................................................ 430 Bayreuth ......................... 16, 389, 405, 430, 1084 BBC Music Magazine Awards ....................... 684 BBC Radio 3 ................................ 542, 554, 1349 Plans .................... 115, 242, 368, 515, 657, 786,

918, 1048, 1189, 1329, 1458,

1595

Beaune: Festival International d’Opéra Baroque et Romantique ................ 430, 1390-1 Beijing: National Centre for the Performing Arts ..................................................... 1516-17 Belfast: NI Opera ............... 617-18(p), 1427-8(p) Plans ............................................................. 828 Bergamo: Teatro Donizetti ............................. 318 Bergen Bergen International Festival ....................... 433 Bergen National Opera............. 197-8, 727-8(p) Berlin Berlin Philharmonic ..................................... 554 Deutsche Oper ........180-1(p), 235-6, 310-11(p),

350-1, 683, 717-18(p), 975-8(p),

1070, 1264-5

Plans ......................................................... 1188 In London ......................................... 1421-3(p) Komische Oper ............... 179-80(p), 311-13(p),

1262-5(p), 1500

Plans ..................................................... 1047-8 Konzerthaus ................................................. 313 Krolloper ............................................... 1379(p) Philharmonie .......................................... 1265-6 Staatsoper ......... 178-9(p), 309-10, 406, 717-18,

1109-10

Plans ......................................................... 1048 Bern ................................................................ 983 Birmingham Birmingham Conservatoire ................ 627, 1368 Birmingham Opera Company .............. 760-1(p) Cape Town Opera ....................................1153-4 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

998-9

Midland Opera ........................................... 1153 Summer Festival Opera .............................. 1017 Blu-ray reviews see DVD reviews

Bologna: Teatro Comunale ............... 598-600(p),

861-3(p), 1488(p)

Bonn: Theater Bonn ....... 45-6(p), 855-6(p), 1110 Book reviews ‘Americans on Italo Montemezzi’ edited by David Chandler ..............................1454-5(p) ‘Blackness in Opera’ edited by Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan and Eric Saylor .......... 154-9 ‘Britten in Pictures’ by Lucy Walker ......110-11 ‘Building the Operatic Museum’ by William Gibbons ................................................ 506-9 ‘The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia’

1452-4

‘Conversations with Ann Howard’ by Susan Higgins ............................................... 1185-6 ‘Essays on the Montemezzi-D’Annunzio Nave’ edited by David Chandler ....1454-5(p) ‘50 Years of Scottish Opera’ edited by Ian Brooke ................................................ 509-10 ‘Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis’ by Michael Haas

362-4(p)

‘Hope and Glory: A Life of Dame Clara Butt’ by Maurice Leonard ......................... 652-3(p) ‘Isaiah Berlin: Building: Letters 1960-75’ edited by Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle

111-12(p)

‘Josephine’s Composer’ by Andrew Everett

‘Milka Trnina’ edited by Zdenka Weber

239-40

782(p)

‘Not without Madness’ by Fabrizio Della Seta ....................................................... 238-9 ‘Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918’ by Paul Rodmell ........................................ 506-9 ‘Overture Opera Guides: Carmen’ edited by Gary Kahn ............................................ 780-1 ‘Overture Opera Guides: La traviata’ edited by Gary Kahn .........................................1326 ‘The Politics of Opera in Handel’s Britain’ by Thomas McGeary ............................... 914-15 ‘Readying Cavalli’s Operas for the Stage’ edited by Ellen Rosand ........................ 653-4 ‘The Rival Sirens’ by Suzanne Aspden .. 914-15 ‘Il teatro di Verdi in scena e in DVD’ by Elvio Giudici ...................................... 1045-6 ‘Walter Widdop’ edited by Michael Letchford

364

Bordeaux: Grand Théàtre ................... 1259-61(p) Borletti-Buitoni Trust Awards ........................ 290 Boston Boston Baroque .......................................... 1405 Boston Lyric Opera .................... 327-8(p), 1405 Braunschweig Internationaler Opernpreis Braunschweig ...954 Staatstheater Braunschweig ..... 594-5(p), 689(p) Exterior ................................................. 687(p) Bregenz Festival ................ 430, 777-8, 1084, 1246-8(p),

1353(p), 1355(p), 1587-9(p) Plans ........................................................... 428 Voralberger Landestheater ........................... 954

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