Our front cover this month shows Elza van den Heever in the title role of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera.
Features inside include:
A celebration of the life and work of Pierre Audi (1957-2025) by Nicholas Payne
The soprano Corinne Winters in conversation with Roger Pines
Daniel Oren conducts Aida at the Arena di Verona this summer and talks about his career and artistic philosophy with Stephen Hastings
Singing and teaching – an overview by Jon Tolansky of the busy and fulfilling career of the baritone Thomas Hampson, who turns 70 this summer
Renée Fleming looks back at her long association with the Aspen Music Festival, where she sang her first Mozart role back in 1984 and is now preparing to direct Così fan tutte
Coming through the Stage Door is emerging artist Isabelle Peters as she prepares to sing Marzelline in Fidelio with Garsington Opera
Productions reviewed around the world include: Die Walküre at Covent Garden, Ariadne auf Naxos in Warsaw, Siegfried in Atlanta, Norma in Florence, The Greek Passion in Bielefeld and Hanover, Ariodante in Boston, Khovanshchina in Geneva, Die Liebe der Danae in Genoa, Salome at the Met, Werther in Liège, Woman With Eyes Closed in Pittsburgh, Parsifal in Erl, Pelléas et Mélisande in Paris, Kleider machen Leute in Cottbus, The Merry Widow at Scottish Opera