July 2022
Volume 73 No. 7
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John Allison
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Front cover
Teresa Berganza as Purcell’s Dido
at Aix-en-Provence in 1960
(see pp. 793-800)
(photo: Serge Lido)
789
Great gate of Kyiv
By the Editor
790
Newsdesk
793
Teresa Berganza, 1933-2020
Max Loppert, Plácido Domingo, Joan Matabosch and Christopher Webber pay tribute
801 People 507: Jakub Hrůša
John Allison
808
‘It’s our job to be curious’
Sebastian F. Schwarz talks to John-Pierre Joyce
813
Readers’ letters
814
Built to last
Alexandra Coghlan on 20 years of young artists at Covent Garden
818
Obituaries
823
Opera around the world
869
Opera in the UK
888
Opera on CD
896
Opera on DVD and Blu-ray
900
Opera books
902
Coming events
including plans for the UK houses and the 2022-3 seasons at Scottish Opera and Irish National Opera; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad
911
Classified advertisements
912
For the record
Judith Howarth