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Sir Neville Marriner

This past spring, the noted conductor and founder of the chamber orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields celebrated his 90th birthday. In this interview with Kai Luehrs-Kaiser, Sir Neville looks back over his career, including his pioneering efforts in the revival of Baroque music and the numerous recordings he made with his orchestra.
- He isn’t bothered by the fact that the Early Music specialists of the late 20th/early 21st centuries have “appropriated” (my ...

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Joyce Di Donato: The Interview

This month’s cover girl, the “Diva next door” (as the headline titles her) talks about her new CD and career plans, and shares her thoughts on the opera “business” (my quotation marks) today.
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Anja Harteros – The Interview

The first German winner of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition and the youngest artist (at age 30) to be awarded the title of Kammersängerin, Harteros has become one of the ...

Feature Stories

“Perm: Am Tor zu Sibirien” (Perm: At the Gate to Siberia)

Europe’s easternmost city, Perm sits at the foot of the Ural ...

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Jonas Kaufmann: The Interview

In this year of the Wagner and Verdi bicentennials, during which he had new recital albums devoted to each composer released on the market, the superstar tenor talks about the ...

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Diana Damrau: The Interview

This month, the soprano sang the title role in the world premiere of Iain Bell’s opera, The Harlot’s Progress, at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien. Based on the etchings ...

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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

In this interview with Kai Luehrs-Kaiser, Dame Kiri looks back at her career, including the noted conductors with whom she worked, talks about the retirement that wasn’t supposed to happen, and offers some observations on ...

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Plácido Domingo: The Interview

The release of his new CD of Verdi baritone arias (also reviewed in this issue) is just the first installment in Domingo’s latest ...

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Luca Pisaroni

The Italian bass-baritone is a man who knows his own mind. In fact, he knew his own mind as a child, ...

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Anna Netrebko: The Interview

With Giovanna d’Arco in concert performances at this summer’s Salzburg Festival, Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Berlin State Opera in November and December, and Lady Macbeth at the Bavarian State Opera in June and July, 2014, La Bellissima has started adding some of Verdi’s spinto roles to her repertoire. She acknowledges that Verdi is difficult to sing, and particularly in his earlier operas, demands a secure upper register, precise coloratura, and the ability to sing piano well. She has been working intensively on her technique in preparation for these roles – ...

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Dame Janet Baker – Interview

This year, the great British mezzo celebrates her 80th birthday. In this interview with Kai Luehrs-Kaiser, she looks back at her career and shares ...

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In his commentary for this issue, Ralf Tiedemann, editor-in-chief of Das Opernglas, takes on the issues that his Opernwelt counterpart apparently preferred to ignore. They are, of course, related to the notorious Düsseldorf ...

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There are no interviews in this issue, aside from the brief one-page discussion with operetta diva Dagmar Schellenberger in the regular “Magazine” section. Instead, there are feature stories on the new Mariinsky II Theater in St. Petersburg and new opera house in Linz, Austria; as well as a feature review of six recent productions of Eugene Onegin.
The scandalous Düsseldorf Tannhäuser doesn’t receive any sort of special coverage, but is ...

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Amanda Roocroft – The Interview

The soprano, who recently sang the title role in Britten’s Gloriana, shares her thought about Elizabeth I and discusses working with director Richard ...

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In addition to the regular monthly sections and features, this issue contains excerpts from the writings of Otto Iro (1890-1971), one of Germany’s leading voice teachers and musicologists in the first two-thirds of the 20th century. Iro argued (among other things) ...

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Grace Bumbry

Calling her earlier decision to retire a mistake, the international star has returned to the opera ...

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In addition to the regular monthly features, this issue also contains a special section on this year’s St. Gallen Festival.

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Ian Bostridge – The Interview

April’s cover artist talks ...

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Hartmut Haenchen

The former head of the Netherlands Philharmonic and General Music Director of the Netherlands Opera turns 70 this ...

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Max Emanuel Cencic

This month’s featured artist is the former Vienna Choirboy who is now one of the world’s leading countertenors. He grew up in a musical family, where he sang and took piano lessons. He describes his ...