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June 2023 - A profile of the tenor Brenden Gunnell, as he sings Peter Grimes in Leipzig; Adventures in Baroque opera — Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg talk to Brian Robins; To cancel or be cancelled? As the Royal Opera’s Il trovatore goes ahead without Anna Netrebko, Warwick Thompson looks at issues surrounding artists connected with Russia; John-Pierre Joyce traces the history of British operatic censorship; Josephine Barstow chooses a favourite recording, La Bohème with Victoria de los Ángeles and Jussi Björling, conducted by Thomas Beecham; and Obituary of the ground-breaking countertenor James Bowman.