Contents List
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
News
- World premieres of Opera Australia’s Bliss and Moby Dick in Dallas
- Istanbul, European City of Culture 2010
- Alison Chitty celebrates 40 years as a theatre designer
Live reviews
- Carmen at La Scala and The Met. Hannover’s new Ring cycle. Jonas Kaufmann’s first Werther. Calixto Bieito’s From the House of the Dead. Golden oldies at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Barry Kosky’s Das Rhinegold. Der Rosenkavalier in Stuttgart
Recordings
- CD Reviews: Alberto Veronesi sheds new light on versimo. Rachmaninov’s Aleko at the Stresa Festival
- DVDs: Domingo’s pick of his own best roles
- Audiofile: dust down your Garrard turntable and put the oomph back into your vinyl collection
- Curtain call: Do looks really matter when it comes to casting in opera?
