Staging trauma: the culture of fear in opera
Many operas hold traumatic themes, but how does this affect the singers on stage? Rosie Middleton investigates the staging of opera with intimate and traumatic scenes and the wider culture around...
News & Features
Resurrecting an English rarity: Stanford’s The Critic at Wexford Festival Opera
As Wexford Festival Opera prepares to stage Stanford’s English satire The Critic, we explore the work’s history and its place in the composer’s operatic output
A Puccini Century: 10 defining moments
Looking back on 10 key operatic moments in 100 years since Puccini’s death
Rising Star: mezzo-soprano Lea Shaw
‘My wish is that folk feel empowered to use their voice as an extension of their authentic self, and to revel in the small magic that makes them, and their voice, unique’
Introducing the Winter 2024 issue of Opera Now, featuring Nadine Sierra
Nadine Sierra: redefining the modern diva | Huw Montague Rendall: the young baritone on his debut album
Meeting Nadine Sierra: ‘I don’t take my career for granted ... It can very easily be taken away from me’
This September, soprano Nadine Sierra returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, nearly a decade after her debut in the role. She speaks about her early life, frustrations with...
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Reviews
Verdi: Don Carlo at the Vienna State Opera | Live Review
Serebrennikov conducts a controversial history lesson in Vienna
Pergolesi: L’Olympiade at Vache Baroque Festival | Live Review
The Buckinghamshire-based festival presents Pergolesi’s dramma per musica in a newly-created English script
Opinion
'Although it requires elite performers, French Baroque opera is for all' - Laurence Cummings
Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music Laurence Cummings looks back on the history of French Baroque opera and considers why it is so neglected in the UK
Excellence and relevance in opera are not mutually exclusive | Andrew Mellor opinion
The traditional operatic canon can still profoundly speak to us today
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