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21 NORMA Vincenzo Bellini – C: Gaetano d’Espinosa / D: Peter Konwitschny – 2 October 2021 DON CARLO Giuseppe Verdi – C: Ivan Repušić / D: Vera Nemirova – 22 October 2021 LA CENERENTOLA Gioachino Rossini – C: Allessandro De Marchi / D: Damiano Michieletto – 6 November 2021 S e m p e r o p e r THE OTHER WOMAN Torsten Rasch – C: Michael Wendeberg / D: Immo Karaman – 22 January 2022 AIDA Giuseppe Verdi – C: Christian Thielemann / D: Katharina Thalbach – 5 March 2022 MADAMA BUTTERFLY Giacomo Puccini – C: Omer Meir Wellber / D: Amon Miyamoto – 2 April 2022 RUSALKA Antonín Dvořák – C: Joana Mallwitz / D: Christof Loy – 7 May 2022 THE NOSE Dmitri Schostakowitsch – C: Petr Popelka / D: Peter Konwitschny – 2 July 2022 A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES Ch: William Forsythe, Aaron S. Watkin, David Dawson, Jorma Elo, Nicholas Palmquist – 15 October 2021 PEER GYNT Ch: Johan Inger – C: Thomas Herzog – 5 June 2022 THE BALD SOPRANO Luciano Chailly – C: Pietro Borgonovo / D: Barbora Horáková – 14 January 2022 BLUES BROTHERS C: Max Renne / D: Manfred Weiß – 8 April 2022 subject to change. information & tickets T +49 351 49 11 705 semperoper.de INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim – C: Max Renne / D: Manfred Weiß – 21 May 2022 THREE MEAN, NASTY GUYS Zad Moultaka – C: Ilya Ram / D: Annika Nitsch – 15 October 2021 WEISSE ROSE Udo Zimmermann – C: Johannes Wulff-Woesten / D: Stephan Grögler – 11 March 2022 22 D r e s d e n
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Contents FRONT OF HOUSE EDITORIAL Business as usual? LETTERS Your thoughts and suggestions M U S S A C C H I O& I A N N I E L L O ESSAY Can opera be environmentally friendly? NEWS & NOTES A new dating App for voice-lovers; hyperreality at the Royal Opera LETTER FROM… Atlanta, Georgia, where Atlanta Opera has been thinking up innovative ways of keeping audiences entertained in a pandemic 18 REVIEWS - LIVE REVIEWS La clemenza di Tito at The Royal Opera House (50), Highlights from the New National Theatre Tokyo (52), Le soulier de Satin (world premiere) at Paris Opera (56), Andrea Chénier at the Greek National Opera, Athens (58) Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival (60) ‡- RECORDINGS New releases (62-64) including Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera, Handel’s Ariodante, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Verdi’s Falstaff and Leoncavallo/Mascagni Cav & Pag (Opera Now Choice); Mascagni’s Iris (65); Solos discs of early music with William Towers, Kate Lindsey and Emilio Gonzales Toro (66); Chandos’ English Song Collection (68); Natalie Dessay –The Opera Singer (70) - SPOTLIGHT UK Festivals and End-of-Season guide COVER PHOTO: MUSSACCHIO & IANNIELLO ‘In order to work well with singers you need to be not just a good musician but also a good psychologist’ CONTENTS MAESTRO CON MOTO The Royal Opera’s resident knight Sir Antonio Pappano prepares to take up the baton in a new season which includes a few firsts even for him. ‡ CAPE CRUSADERS In its 21st season, Cape Town Opera comes of age ‰ BIRGIT NILSSON Celebrating Birgit Nilsson Days, streamed live from the Swedish diva’s birthplace ‰ GREEK REVOLUTION The role of art, music and opera in the birth of the modern Greek‡state N I C O L A R O S S ‰ IN PROFILE ENO’s new boss Annilese Miskimmon sets out her post-pandemic vision for the company www.operanow.co.uk 26 38 52 ‡ DANCE STEPS The Buxton International Festival gives the first professional production of Arnold’s 1950s comic opera, The Dancing Master ARIADNE ONLINE English Touring Opera’s online season features a poignant take on one of opera’s most ancient tales COST EFFECTIVE Why does cost so much to stage? Ambra Sorrentino of Opera CoPro explains OperaNow July/August 2021 3

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Contents

FRONT OF HOUSE EDITORIAL Business as usual?

LETTERS Your thoughts and suggestions

M U S S A C C H I

O& I

A N N I

E L L O

ESSAY Can opera be environmentally friendly?

NEWS & NOTES A new dating App for voice-lovers; hyperreality at the Royal Opera

LETTER FROM… Atlanta, Georgia, where Atlanta Opera has been thinking up innovative ways of keeping audiences entertained in a pandemic

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REVIEWS - LIVE REVIEWS La clemenza di Tito at The Royal Opera House (50), Highlights from the New National Theatre Tokyo (52), Le soulier de Satin (world premiere) at Paris Opera (56), Andrea Chénier at the Greek National Opera, Athens (58) Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival (60)

‡- RECORDINGS New releases (62-64) including Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera, Handel’s Ariodante, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Verdi’s Falstaff and Leoncavallo/Mascagni Cav & Pag (Opera Now Choice); Mascagni’s Iris (65); Solos discs of early music with William Towers, Kate Lindsey and Emilio Gonzales Toro (66); Chandos’ English Song Collection (68); Natalie Dessay –The Opera Singer (70)

- SPOTLIGHT UK Festivals and End-of-Season guide

COVER PHOTO: MUSSACCHIO & IANNIELLO

‘In order to work well with singers you need to be not just a good musician but also a good psychologist’

CONTENTS

MAESTRO CON MOTO The Royal Opera’s resident knight Sir Antonio Pappano prepares to take up the baton in a new season which includes a few firsts even for him. ‡ CAPE CRUSADERS In its 21st season, Cape Town Opera comes of age ‰ BIRGIT NILSSON Celebrating Birgit Nilsson Days, streamed live from the Swedish diva’s birthplace ‰ GREEK REVOLUTION The role of art, music and opera in the birth of the modern Greek‡state

N I

C O L A

R O S S

‰ IN PROFILE ENO’s new boss Annilese Miskimmon sets out her post-pandemic vision for the company www.operanow.co.uk

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38

52

‡ DANCE STEPS The Buxton International Festival gives the first professional production of Arnold’s 1950s comic opera, The Dancing Master ARIADNE ONLINE English Touring Opera’s online season features a poignant take on one of opera’s most ancient tales COST EFFECTIVE Why does cost so much to stage? Ambra Sorrentino of Opera CoPro explains

OperaNow July/August 2021 3

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