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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  • Maria-Cristina Necula looks forward to The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, the new opera by Kamala Sankaram and Minita Gandhi, to be premiered at Minnesota Opera 
  • The veteran baritone Rod Gilfry, who sings in Floyd’s Susannah in Houston this month, talks to Roger Pines
  • Christopher Webber goes on a Halloween-inspired hunt for operatic ghosts 
  • Scott Hendricks is in conversation as he prepares to sing Berg’s Wozzeck at La Monnaie
  • Stephen Hastings celebrates the centenary of the great soprano Joan Sutherland
  • Our rising star is the baritone Ian Rucker, who sings Malatesta at Lyric Opera of Chicago this month

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  • First Issue: February 1950
  • Latest Issue: November 2026
  • Issue Count: 1,009
  • Published: Monthly
  • ISSN: 2059-6707
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