Opera Now

The opera lover's essential guide

Opera Now captures the drama, colour and vitality of one of the most powerful of all the performing arts. In our print and digital issues, we showcase the creative spirit of opera, both on stage and behind the scenes, with profiles of opera companies, singers, directors and designers. Our in-depth features reflect how diverse cultural elements have influenced opera, including travel, history, literature, art, architecture, politics and philosophy.

Our lively reviews and opinion pages are a platform for writers and critics drawn from all over the world. Our aim is to inspire our opera-loving readers to broaden their knowledge and deepen their passion for this fascinating and stimulating artform.

Latest issue

American-Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky presents her pièce de resistance as Donizetti’s Tudor Queens, showcasing her brilliant virtuosic and dramatic skills across three epic operas at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples this month. She discusses the contrasts and challenges with Opera Now in our February 2022 issue.

Elsewhere we celebrate the centenary of Renata Tebaldi, queen of the Met and La Scala, by exploring her legacy on stage and on record; Verdi goes Zen in Robert Wilson’s slow-motion Otello at Greek National Opera; librettist and director Tazewell Thompson introduces us to Blue, a new opera exploring racism and brutality in the police force that has been winning acclaim in the US; British tenor Allan Clayton on his Favourite Things; and what makes a ‘Brünnhilde Voice’ so special?