Opera (with Opera News)
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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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- What does a chorus do? Talking to singers from several companies, Henrietta Bredin and Rupert Christiansen dig deeper into how these crucial ensembles operate.
- The tenor Freddie De Tommaso, who sings Macduff in the Met’s season-opening production of Macbeth, is profiled.
- Nigel Simeone looks at Bruno Walter’s Covent Garden career, on what would have been the conductor’s 150th birthday.
- Ken Benson on Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra, 60 years after it opened the new Metropolitan Opera.
- Christopher Ballantine remembers the South African composer Stanley Glasser on his centenary.
- Our rising star is the soprano Ellie Neate, who sings Lisette on Opera Rara’s new recording of Puccini’s La Rondine.
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- First Issue: February 1950
- Latest Issue: September 2026
- Issue Count: 1,007
- Published: Monthly
- ISSN: 2059-6707
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