Opera (with Opera News)
Archived since
February 1950
Complete Archive
Perpetual Access Available
987 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.
A subscription to the online edition of Opera magazine provides fully searchable access to the contents of every issue—beginning with the first, published in February 1950. The site provides IP-authenticated remote web access, with no requirement to log in with username and password, and access is seamless, crossing iOS and Android platforms.
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Latest Issue:
In our 75th birthday issue, we look back at three quarters of a century of OPERA as captured in our covers. Plus …
- Mark-Anthony Turnage talks to Jonathan Cross about his new opera Festen, which is to be premiered by the Royal Opera this month
- Laura Canning talks to Henrietta Bredin about her plans for Opera North
- We profile Keri-Lynn Wilson, opera conductor and founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
- Shawna Lucey talks to Lisa Hirsch about running Opera San José, as the company prepares for her new production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Our rising star is the bass William Guanbo Su, who sings Colline in the Dallas Opera’s La Bohème this month
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- First Issue: February 1950
- Latest Issue: February 2025
- Issue Count: 987
- Published: Monthly
- ISSN: 2059-6707
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