July 2022

Volume 73 No. 7

Editor

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