Lise Davidsen is on our front cover, in her role debut as Isolde at the Liceu in Barcelona.
Features inside include:
Kirill Karabits talks to John Allison about his new recording of the opera Esther by the Ukrainian-born composer Thomas de Hartmann
As he prepares to sing the title role in Garsington Opera’s new production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse Ed Lyon discusses singing, mental health and new challenges with Alexandra Coghlan
With El último sueño de Frida y Diego coming up at the Metropolitan Opera, the soprano Gabriella Reyes is proud to be a Latina singing Spanish-language repertoire
The composer Gregory Spears has written a choral opera, Sleepers Awake, opening at Opera Philadelphia in late April – he talks about his artistic development with David Shengold
And our Stage Door emerging artist is Golda Zahra, a soprano who sings Puccini, Chabrier—and songs by Queen.
Productions reviewed around the world include: Tristan und Isolde in Barcelona, Le nozze di Figaro at Opera North, Eugene Onegin in Paris, Requiem for the End of Love in Athens, Salieri’s Falstaff in Chicago, the premiere of Monster’s Paradise in Hamburg, Daphne in Seattle, Mitridate in Frankfurt, Curlew River in Pittsburgh, Nabucco in Naples, My Name is Florence in St Paul, Die Zauberflöte in Salzburg, Die Fledermaus in Liège, The Devil’s Wall in Brno, the premiere of Morgonstjärnan in Helsinki, La clemenza di Tito in Nice, Das Wunder der Heliane in Strasbourg, the premiere of Precipice in New York, Lohengrin in Mannheim, Stiffelio in Modena, Orlando in Ravenna and Servilia in Moscow.