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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  • The soprano Gabriella Reyes talks to Mark Thomas Ketterson as she prepares to sing in El ultimo sueño di Frida y Diego at the Met 
  • The composer Gregory Spears, whose new opera Sleepers Wake is premiered at Opera Philadelphia, talks to David Shengold
  • We profile the tenor Ed Lyon, who sings Handel at Opera di Roma in April and the title role in Monteverdi’s Ritorno d’Ulisse at Garsington in June
  • Kirill Karabits tells the Editor about conducting Pentatone’s premiere recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s lost opera Esther
  • Our rising star is the soprano Golda Zahra
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  • First Issue: February 1950
  • Latest Issue: April 2026
  • Issue Count: 1,002
  • Published: Monthly
  • ISSN: 2059-6707
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