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- Verdi's Falstaff at the Royal Opera House, London
Ambrogio Maestri rules the stage in this fun new production - Toby Spence wins RPS Music Award
British tenor praised for his 'vocal beauty and dramatic maturity' - English National Opera 2012/13 season announced
Highlights include world premieres by Philip Glass and Michel van der Aa - Pulitzer Prize for Music goes to Great War opera
Kevin Puts' 'stirring' Silent Night praised by Pulitzer jury - COMPETITION | Win a 10-CD set of Sumi Jo's The Erato Recitals
'Experience a superb artist at the height of her powers' Opera Now
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Sumi Jo © Decca Classics / Hyungwon Ryoo
MAY ISSUE
- Cover feature
The indefatigable Korean soprano, Sumi Jo, lunches with Opera Now in Paris, discussing her hard-won rise to stardom, the quest for perfectionism that keeps her at the top of her profession, and a growing interest in Bach - Postcard from...
Australia – a survey of opera’s history and all the latest trends Down Under - Playing away
From Cape Town Opera to St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, overseas opera companies add to the variety of opera on offer in the UK each year. What do these visitors bring to the mix? - Rings around the world
Opera Now’s pick of the best Ring cycles being staged to celebrate Wagner’s birth bicentenary in 2013. Plus Wagner highlights on the immediate horizon… - Life with my voice
Meet the formidable Wagnerian soprano Iréne Theorin as she prepares to sing Isolde at Bayreuth - Curtain call
Lee Connolly, executive producer of ITV’s Popstar to Operastar, explains how the making of the show has turned him from an opera sceptic into an avid fan
PLUS
- Become an instant expert on Verdi's Falstaff
- Classics to treasure or productions that have outstayed their welcome? Michael White explores the pros and cons of revivals that hang around for decades
Editorial
After Channel 4’s Operatunity and ITV’s Popstar to Operastar, the BBC joins the love-in between reality TV and opera with its new series of Maestro, screened in three one-hour episodes on BBC2 beginning at the end of April. There are already rumblings about dumbing down, but does this type of television really debase or merely demystify opera?
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