Opera (with Opera News)
Archived since
February 1950
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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:
- In addition to a 2026 Festivals Directory and Festivals Spotlight, with information about opera festivals around the world between May and October, this Festivals Preview issue includes:
- The Bavarian State Opera’s Intendant Serge Dorny in conversation with the editor about the Munich Opera Festival and his vision for it in the house’s wider season
- Bayreuth symposium: as the Wagner Festival marks its 150th anniversary, we invite luminaries from the Wagnerian world to share their vision for its future
- Will Crutchfield, the founding artistic and general director of Teatro Nuovo, celebrates 200 years of Italian opera in the United States
- Interview with Michael Egel, the artistic and general director of the innovative Des Moines Metro Opera
- Garsington Opera’s artistic director Douglas Boyd on his plans for the festival
- Profile of the tenor SeokJong Baek ahead of appearances at Covent Garden and in Munich
- The artist emerging through our Stage Door this month is the tenor Liam Bonthorne, who sings Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos at Glyndebourne
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