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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  • Patrick Summers looks back on his 15 years as artistic and music director of Houston Grand Opera, in conversation with Rebecca Paller
  • Davide Livermore, who directs Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Zurich this month, talks to John-Pierre Joyce
  • Sophie de Lint talks to the Editor about Amsterdam’s Opera Forward Festival as it celebrates its first decade
  • We profile Christian Gerhaher as he prepares to sing his first Wotan in Salzburg
  • Eric Myers rediscovers Robert Ward’s 1961 opera The Crucible, which is staged by Washington National Opera this month
Our rising star is the baritone Ricardo José Rivera, who sings Di Luna at Sarasota Opera this month
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  • First Issue: February 1950
  • Latest Issue: March 2026
  • Issue Count: 1,001
  • Published: Monthly
  • ISSN: 2059-6707
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