Opera (with Opera News)
Archived since
February 1950
Complete Archive
1,007 issues
JISC Collection
Opera is the world’s leading magazine devoted to the operatic artform. Founded in 1950 it provides an extensive range of feature articles, interviews, listings and reviews – of live performances, books and recordings. Now incorporating the US publication Opera News, this range extends yet further, offering unrivalled worldwide coverage of events.
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Latest Issue:
- What does a chorus do? Talking to singers from several companies, Henrietta Bredin and Rupert Christiansen dig deeper into how these crucial ensembles operate.
- The tenor Freddie De Tommaso, who sings Macduff in the Met’s season-opening production of Macbeth, is profiled.
- Nigel Simeone looks at Bruno Walter’s Covent Garden career, on what would have been the conductor’s 150th birthday.
- Ken Benson on Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra, 60 years after it opened the new Metropolitan Opera.
- Christopher Ballantine remembers the South African composer Stanley Glasser on his centenary.
- Our rising star is the soprano Ellie Neate, who sings Lisette on Opera Rara’s new recording of Puccini’s La Rondine.
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