eptember 2001 Volume 52 No 9

era Founded by the Earl of Harewood

Past Ediwrs Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

Editor John Allison Marketing Director Alice Lind ay ssistant Editor Erica Jeal ub criptions Manager Angela Kipling

Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer

Ian Blyth Hugh anning Rupert hri tian en Andrew Clark Andrew lements Richard Fairman Michael Kennedy Fiona Madd cks Rodney Milne (Chairman) Roger Parker Andrew Porter

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Front cover: Placido Domingo (photo: Richard Haughton)

1035 Russian roulette By "/1-, e Editor

I 036 Domingo at th cro road

The ten r talk to Martin Bemheimer l 042 Readers' Letters I 046 Pop go s the opera? Rupert Chris1iansen

1053 ew de k 1055 Fifty year at the front line Edward Downes talks to Rodney Milnes 1062 People 276: Janis Kelly Hugh Canning

!067 ' r hak ll'-Adr am fu lfi lled Gerald

Papa ion

1074 Opera Around the World 1081 Coming Events Supplement including plan for the Khou es, Sydney, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Munich (Staat th ater am Gartnerplatz), Am terdam, eville, Bo ton; 'We hear that ... '; Opera calendar home and abroad

J 095 Opera on disc 1114 Briti h Opera Diary

1144 Opera on the fringe

J 15 l Cla ifi d advertisement l 152 I can't live without ... mi tak Barry Emslie

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