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- 100 opera houses join in Europe Day celebrations
8-9 May 2010: European Opera Days – ‘Crossing Bridges’ - Plácido Domingo recovering after surgery for cancerTenor given a clean bill of health and will return to the stage in April
- News round-up - 30 January 2010
Today's news from the world of opera - Los Angeles launches citywide Ring Festival LA
Ten weeks of diverse cultural events led by LA Opera - Birmingham Conservatoire to mount opera world premiere
David Blake’s Scoring A Century finally makes it to the stage
Contents for Opera Now
Hannover State Opera's Das Rheingold - a new production by Barrie Kosky
Best of British:
- After revelling in the Classical Opera Company’s performance of Arne’s Artaxerxes, Paul Boucher says it’s time for an English opera revival
- As the Arts Council prepares to publish its report on opera
provision around the UK, Opera Now carries out its own survey on the state of
the UK’s regional companies.
- The UK’s opera entrepreneurs
- London Handel Festival: After the anniversary celebrations of last year, festival director and conductor Laurence Cummings explains why he never tires of Handel
Regulars
- The Opera Now interview: Jason Victor Serinus meets Diana
Damrau, opera’s top-of-the-range coloratura
- Memoirs. Part II: John
Steane is bitten by the collecting bug
- The performing voice: With Italian baritone Ferrucio Furnaletto
- Inspirations: director David Alden on tenor Jon Vickers as Peter Grimes
Features
- Des Moines Metro Opera: company founder Robert L Larsen describes how his operatic dream came true
- A new season of Scottish Opera’s Five:15 commissions
- Michael Stennett on designing Dame Joan Sutherland’s famous frocks
Multimedia
Excerpts from the best DVD reviews featured in the Opera Now November/December 2009 issue
- DVD Reviews
Khovanshchina
UNITEL-Medici Arts 2072428 ★★★★★
(Opera Now page 116)
Zaide
Medici Arts 3078358 ★★★★
(Opera Now page 117)
Cosi fan tutte
Opus Arte OA BD7035 D ★★★★
(Opera Now page 118)
Editorial
In France, the ‘National’ designation in an opera company’s title means that the State takes on a special responsibility for looking after you. National opera companies in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Bordeaux are all favoured with extra funding and strong political connections...
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