Contents
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FRONT OF HOUSE MAIN STAGE
THE CRITICAL VIEW
5 EDITORIAL
How could the
Royal Opera House
get it so wrong?
6 FEEDBACK
8-13 NEWS & NOTES
20 COVER FEATURE
The great bel canto
40 UNDER STUDY
Long and short-
tenor of our time, Juan term courses for the
Diego Fl6rez tells us opera enthusiast
how he keeps on top
50-63 LIVE REVIEWS
Gotterdiimmerung at the Met I
Opera de Lyon's Puccini
Plus Festival I Donizetti,
Massenet and Cavalli in Paris I
of the demands of the 42 LEADER OF THE PACK New productions in London, virtuosic music that he While his school friends Edinburgh, Belfast and Mumbai
sings, and discusses his were watching football,
Barcelona's Liceu reverses work with poor children bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni MULTIMEDIA plans for closure I Cape in his native Peru headed to the opera. Today, Town Opera UK tour he takes starring roles on 64 NEW RELEASES announced I Joyce 28 POSTCARD FROM .. . the international stage Opera on CD, DVD DiDonato wins Grarnmy Benelux - the historic and Blu-ray Award I Star of stage union ofBelgium, 44 OPERA BLUFF and screen turns 100 I the Netherlands and Become an instant 66 BOOKS Technology brings lost Luxembourg: a tiny expert on Franz Lehir's The Opera Cooks: World opera houses back to European region that The Merry Widow Stars at the Stove life I and more ... punches well above
IN THE WINGS
16 TALENT SPOTIING
A focus on emerging
its weight when it
comes to opera
38 FESTIVAL FOCUS
47 SQUILLO
BACK STAGE
Michael White has lunch in Lyon to find out why 68 COMPANY FOCUS
young audiences in
Opera North -leading regional
Selected operatic highlights France's 'southern capital' opera in England since 1978
talent: British conductor in unique festival settings are flocking to the opera Jeremy Carnall I from the summer 78 GRAND FINALE Recent and forthcoming opera season ahead Gounod's Faust finds competitions unexpected resonances in
a South African village
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