April 2009 Volume 60 No 4
Editor John Allison Deputy Editor Erica Jeal Publisher Fletcher Dhew Subscriptions Manager 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
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Front cover: Nadja Michael in ‘Die tote Stadt’at Covent Garden (see pp. 460-1) (photo: Bill Cooper)
387 Finding Purcell By the Editor
Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes
388 Loving the big tunes André Previn talks to Rebecca Paller
393 Readers’letters
396 Between two wars, between two worlds James Conlon
403 Newsdesk
406 People 356: Katie Mitchell Rupert Christiansen
413 Obituary
417 Opera around the world
458 Opera in Britain
482 Opera on CD
490 Opera on DVD
494 Opera books
496 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis/St Paul, New York (Met), Seattle; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad
511 Classified advertisements
512 If I came back as … Benoit &Alcindoro George Hall
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