January 2014 Volume 65 No 1 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 Luca Pisaroni (photo: Marco Borggreve)

5 Calm after the storm

By the Editor   6 People 418: Luca Pisaroni

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

Anna Picard   13 Readers’ letters   18 ‘Brokeback’: the opera

Charles Wuorinen and Annie Proulx talk to David Shengold   22 Newsdesk   26 L’Histoire de Manon …

Christopher Webber on the operatic afterlife of Prévost’s heroine   31 Obituary   34 Opera around the world   81 Opera in Britain   98 Opera on CD 108 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 110 Opera books 113 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Palermo; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 127 Classified advertisements 128 Largo al factotum …

Terry King

Opera, January 2014

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