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Opera Now provides a unique and all-encompassing perspective on the international opera scene through its lively and colourful mix of news, reviews, interviews, travel articles and commentary.

Read about new productions, festivals, performance previews and world premieres, as well as reviews of all the latest opera CDs, DVDs, books, websites and films.

With our mixture of celebrity interviews, leadership profiles and behind-the-scenes features, you'll appreciate the diversity, passion and dynamism of the people who make opera happen. It is the global platform for opera, reaching out to opera lovers worldwide, but also into the heart of the industry from the grassroots to the glamorous.

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?

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