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May 2019 • £5.99

THE OPERA LOVER’S ESSENTIAL GUIDE

IRINA LUNGU From the Steppes to La Scala in six months

DRAMATIC TWIST Screen legend Fanny Ardant

directs her first opera HEROIC FEAT

Stuart Skelton on singing Siegmund

PLUS Glyndebourne’s opera house goes green Wagner’s legacy in Leipzig

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