Our front cover this month shows Pretty Yende as Semele in the new production of Handel’s opera at Covent Garden.
Features inside include:
The conductor Edward Gardner discusses life and work in Oslo and beyond with John Allison
Britten’s The Turn of the Screw assessed by Yaou Zhang from the viewpoint of female directors
Entente Cordiale, Ethel Smyth’s last opera, is a cause for celebration by Christopher Wiley
David Patrick Stearns profiles the seemingly tireless Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking is 25—we mark that anniversary with recollections from those who know it best
Our Stage Door emerging artist is the tenor Miles Mykkanen, singing in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera
Productions reviewed around the world include: Semele at Covent Garden and in Atlanta, Boris Godunov in Amsterdam, Rodelinda at Garsington Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos in Tel Aviv, Don Giovanni in Munich, new operas She Who Dared in Chicago and This House in St Louis, Faust in Lille, Der junge Lord in Florence, Wahnfried and Pelléas et Mélisande at Longborough Festival Opera, Carmen in Seville, The Fairy Queen in Sydney, Wozzeck in Antwerp, The Dark Side of the Moon in Hamburg, Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne