Opera (with Opera News)
Archived since
February 1950
Complete Archive
1,008 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:
- The composer Missy Mazzoli talks to Hannah Edgar as her new opera Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Met
- James Gaffigan, Houston Grand Opera’s music director designate, talks to Hugo Shirley
- As the Hungarian State Opera prepares for its centenary staging of Zoltan Kodály’s Háry János, the composer’s widow Sárolta Kodály talks to Tim Bullamore
- Our rising star is the Indian baritone Darwin Prakash, who sings Guglielmo in Klagenfurt this month
- As Greek National Opera makes its New York debut at Carnegie Hall with a programme inspired by Nikos Kazantzakis, John Allison explores operatic responses to the great Greek writer
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