A view over the rooftops of Paris is on our front cover this month, from the new production of Charpentier’s Louise at the Aix Festival.
Features inside include:
John Allison celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Lviv National Opera in western Ukraine, presenting performances against a backdrop of air-raid alerts and power outages.
The director Christopher Luscombe in conversation with David Benedict as he prepares to stage Delius’s The Magic Fountain at the Wexford Festival.
Nadine Sierra sings the title role in a new production of La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera and talks about her career so far and her plans for the future with Roger Pines.
Simon Banks assesses shifting attitudes towards colonialism as reflected in operas from Carl Graun’s Montezuma to Philip Glass’s The Voyage.
Reginald Smith, Jr is our emerging artist, coming through the Stage Door, singing the Pirate King in Seattle Opera’s The Pirates of Penzance in October.
Productions reviewed around the world include: Salome in Sopot, Dalibor at Bard Summerscape, Pénélope in Munich, Billy Budd in Buenos Aires, Oedipe in Bregenz, The Last Temptations at Savonlinna, Katya Kabanová at Glyndebourne, La Calisto and Louise in Aix, Faust in Paris, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Bayreuth, Die Walküre at Santa Fe, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Berlin, Un re in ascolto in Mexico City, Carmen in Sydney, The Rake’s Progress in Des Moines, Das grosse Feuer in Zurich, Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Holland Park.