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2001 Annual Festivals Issue

O p e r a Editor 15 John Allison Marketing Director \ g Alice Lindsay Assistant Editor 25 Erica Jeal Editorial Board , , Martin Bernheimer J Alan Blyth Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen 45 Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman Michael Kennedy 51 Fiona Maddocks Rodney Milnes (Chairman) ^5 Roger Parker Andrew Porter

What’s in a festival? By the Editor Escape routes Rodney Milnes People 273: Richard Gaddes Andrew Clark Japanese whispers Alexander Goehr talks to Fiona Maddocks Now for the news Richard Osborne on Rossini’s ‘La gazzetta’ Shakespeare into opera Peter Hall talks to John Allison ‘Verter’—a Masonic discovery Luca Bianchini and Anna Trombetta Staff director at Bayreuth Mike Ashman The Mortier decade Michael Kennedy Tour operators

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Front cover: Richard Jones’s production of ‘Un hallo in maschera’at Bregenz (photo: Richard Hormann) Festival listings: Aix-en-Provence (60), Aldeburgh (32), Almeida (37), Ambronay (62), Aspen (62), Baden-Baden (63), Bad Wildbad (63), Barga (71), Bayreuth (71), Beaune (77), Bregenz (78), Brighton (38), Buxton (38), Caesarea (79), Caramoor (81), Charleston (81), Cheltenham (40), Cincinnati (82), Covent Garden (40), Dartington (41), Dresden (82), Drottningholm (84), Dublin (85), Edinburgh (42), Eisenstadt (86), Eutin (86), Florence (87), Garsington (49), Glimmerglass (88), Glyndebourne (49), Gottingen (89), Granada (90), Grange Park (57), Graz (91), Halle (92), Hampton Court (58), Holland (92), Innsbruck (93), Linz (93), Ljubljana (94), Longborough (59), Macerata (96), Madrid (96), Mananan (59), Martina Franca (98), Montpellier (98), Munich (100), New Jersey (102), Orange (102), Pesaro (103), Ravenna (104), Rheingau (105), Riga (105), Saint Louis (106), St Petersburg (107), Salzburg Whitsun (118), Salzburg (119), San Francisco (120), Santa Fe (120), Savonlinna (121), Schwetzingen (122), Seattle (122), Spoleto (123), Torre del Lago (123), Vadstena (124), Verona (125), Vienna (125), Wexford (126), Zurich (127) Advertising orders and copy to Grafnne Gillis, Cabbell Publishing Ltd, Woodman Works, 204 Durnsford Road, London SW19 8DR Tel: 020 8971 8450 Fax: 020 8971 8480 Opera, Festivals 2001