January 2019 Volume 70 No. 1 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 Roger Parker Editorial Offices 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE Telephone: 020 8563 8893 editor@opera.co.uk www.opera.co.uk operamagazine @operamagazine @opera_magazine Subscriptions and customer services Esco, Trinity House, Sculpins Lane, Wethersfield, Braintree CM7 4AY Telephone: 01371 851804 Fax: 01371 851808 opera@escosubs.co.uk Digital edition Exact Editions support@exacteditions.com www.exacteditions.com/opera Advertising Jane Stoggles, Cabbells Ltd T elephone: 020 3603 7940 jane@cabbell.co.uk Front cover Hilary Summers and Leonardo Cortellazzi in Kurtág’ s Fin de partie in Milan (see pp. 54-6) (photo: Ruth Walz)

Opera, January 2019

5 After the Endgame

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal

and Rodney Milnes

By the Editor   6 People 469: Christopher Maltman George Loomis   11 Readers’ letters   17 Italian intrigue

Nico de Villiers explores the Oscar -winning composer Richard Hageman’s only opera   21 Newsdesk   25 Learning to sing

In the second of three articles, Stephen A. Brown looks at vocal training in colleges, conservatoir es and music schools   32 Opera around the world   76 Opera in Britain   92 Opera on CD 106 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 11 1 Opera books 116 Coming events

including plans for the UK houses, and the 2019 Salzburg Festival; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 127 Classified advertisements 128 For the record …

Stuart MacRae

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