Opera (with Opera News)
Archived since
February 1950
Complete Archive
998 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:
- In December we celebrate the 2025 INTERNATIONAL OPERA AWARDS, taking place in Athens this year, in an issue that includes all the shortlists and a spotlight on the operatic repertoire of Greece. Plus:
- Mary Ann Smart revisits Bellini’s I puritani ahead of its new Metropolitan Opera production
- We celebrate the centenary of Berg’s seminal opera Wozzeck
- In the first of a series about producing opera, Anthony Freud – the former head of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera – talks to conductors
- Alexandra Wilson explores TV’s effect on the democratisation of opera
- Our rising star is the UK bass-baritone Ossian Huskinson, who sings in the Royal Opera’s Turandot this month
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