April 2019 Volume 70 No. 4 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 Amanda Majeski as Katya Kabanova at the Royal Opera (see pp. 475-7) (photo: Clive Barda)

Opera, April 2019

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal

and Rodney Milnes

391 Friends disunited By the Editor 393 People 472: Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Hugh Canning 398 Readers’ letters 401 Masters at arms

Christopher Gillett gets together with a trio of Claggarts 406 Newsdesk 410 Notes from a small island Alexandra Wilson looks at historical attitudes to

overseas singers on British stages 416 Obituaries 419 Opera around the world 459 Opera in Britain 479 Opera on CD 488 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 492 Opera books 495 Coming events

including plans for the UK houses (with Opera North’s 2019-20 season), Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 51 1 Classified advertisements 512 For the record …

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