June 2015 Volume 66 No 6 Editor John Allison Deputy Editors Erica Jeal Henrietta Bredin Commercial Director Megan Jackson Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman George Hall Fiona Maddocks Rodney Milnes (Chairman) Roger Parker 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, 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 Aleksandra Kurzak (photo: Andrzej Swietlik)

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693 How can one not love him? By the Editor 694 International Opera Awards 2015 The winners 698 Readers’ letters 700 Flying high The composer Jonathan Dove talks to Nick Kimberley 706 Newsdesk 707 Where the simoon blows John Purser on the operas of Erik Chisholm 714 Andrew Porter, 1928-2015 Max Loppert 718 Obituaries 722 Opera around the world 769 Opera in Britain 788 Opera on CD 795 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 797 Opera books 801 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, (with 2015-16 seasons for the Royal Opera and ENO); ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 816 My opera city … John Allison

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