Opera Now Magazine September 2022 Retour à l'édition précédente

In the September edition of Opera Now, Marina Viotti – one of the most distinctive, unaffected mezzo sopranos of her generation – discusses her unconventional route into opera via symphonic metal and jazz.
Plus, the coming season’s highlights from the Royal Opera in Versailles, and operatic offerings around Paris; John Adams discusses his latest opera, the Shakespeare-inspired Antony and Cleopatra, receiving its world premiere in San Francisco; Sir Bryn Terfel embarks on a major national tour around the United Kingdom taking in venues from Scotland to the south coast of England; Opera Rara revives Offenbach’s La Princesse de Trébizonde, in a new critical edition pieced together by way of some intriguing musicological detective work; Francesco Cilluffo conducts Fromental Halévy’s long-lost Shakespearean opera La tempesta at this year’s Wexford Festival Opera; Francis Muzzu chooses his favourite recordings of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann on record and on film; Barbara Hannigan discusses her Favourite Things; reviews of summer festivals and the best new releases; and our Worldwide Opera Guide.