2002 Annual Festivals Issue

Editor John Allison Marketing Director Alice Lindsay Assistant Editor Erica Jeal Subscriptions Manager Angela Kipling Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Alan Blyth Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman 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 e-mail: editor@operamag.clara.co.uk Website: http://www.opera.co.uk Advertising orders and copy to Jane Stoggles Cabbell Publishing Ltd Woodman Works 204 Durnsford Road London SW19 8DR Tel: 020 8971 8450 Fax: 020 8971 8480 Front cover: Phyllis Pancella as Offenbach’s Grand Duchess at Saint Louis last year (photo: Ken Howard)

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

13 Festive cheer

By the Editor 15 In the south

Jonathan Keates 21 People 283: Stephane Lissner

Alan Riding 26 Original principles

John Allison meets the new Glyndebourne triumvirate 32 ‘Juha’renewed

Rodney Milnes on Merikanto’s return to Savonlinna 36 Aldeburgh and Almeida: a music-theatre axis

Jonathan Reekie talks to Tom Service 41 A quarter-century of Saint Louis

Andrew Porter 45 Nigel Osborne’s ‘Soviet Union’revisited

Stephen Johnson 49 Out of the trunk and onto the gyre

Gavin Plumley on Janacek’s ‘Sarka’ 112 Tour operators Festival listings: Aix-en-Provence (64), Aldeburgh (53), Almeida (54), Ambronay (65), Aspen (65), Athens (66), Baden-Baden (67), Bad Ischl (67), Bad Wildbad (68), Barga (69), Bayreuth (69), Beaune (70), Bregenz (71), Brighton (54), Buxton (55), Charleston (72), Cheltenham (56), Cincinnati (73), Dalhalla (74), Dartington (57), Dresden (75), Drottningholm (76), Dublin (77), Edinburgh (57), Eisenstadt (78), Erfurt (78), Eutin (79), Florence (80), Garsington (59), Glimmerglass (80), Glyndebourne (60), Gottingen (81), Granada (82), Grange Park (61), Graz (83), Halle (83), Holland (84), Innsbruck (84), Ljubljana (85), Longborough (62), Lucerne (85), Macerata (86), Mananan (62), Martina Franca (86), Mikkeli (87), Montpellier (87), Munich Bienniale (88), Munich (89), New Jersey (91), Orange (91), Peralada (92), Pesaro (92), Ravenna (93), Ravinia (94), Rheingau (94), Riga (96), Saint Louis (97), St Margarethen (98), St Petersburg (100), Salzburg Whitsun (100), Salzburg (101), Santa Fe (103), Savonlinna (104), Schwetzingen (105), Spoleto (106), Torre del Lago (106), Vadstena (107), Verona (108), Vienna (109), Wexford (110), Zurich (111)

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