August 2013 Volume 64 No 8 Editor John Allison Deputy Editors Erica Jeal Hugo Shirley Commercial Director Megan Jackson Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman George Hall Michael Kennedy Fiona Maddocks Rodney Milnes (Chairman) Roger Parker Andrew Porter Editorial Offices 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE Telephone: 020 8563 8893 Fax: 020 8563 8635 email: editor@opera.co.uk Website: www.opera.co.uk operamagazine @operamagazine Subscriptions Esco, Trinity House, Sculpins Lane, Wethersfield, Braintree CM7 4AY Telephone: 01371 851804 Fax: 01371 851808 email: opera@escosubs.co.uk Advertising Jane Stoggles Cabbell Publishing Ltd Telephone: 020 3603 7940 email: jane@cabbell.co.uk Front cover Susan Bullock as Gloriana at Covent Garden (see pp. 1059-61) (photo: Clive Barda)

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

965 Deckchair arranging

By the Editor 966 People 413: André Heller-Lopes

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

John Allison 973 Readers’ letters 976 The complete singer

Carol Neblett talks to Jon Tolansky 984 Newsdesk 988 Guilty pleasures?

Christopher Webber makes the case for Malcolm Williamson 991 Obituary 995 Opera around the world 1034 Opera in Britain 1061 Opera on CD 1074 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 1077 Opera books 1079 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Opéra National du Rhin; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 1087 Classified advertisements 1088 Largo al factotum …

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