April 2025

An important premiere is featured on our cover this month: Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera Festen at Covent Garden, with Allan Clayton and Gerald Finley.

Features inside include:

• Opera photographer Monika Rittershaus describes her work to Nicholas Blanmont

• Clémentine Margaine, the French mezzo-soprano, in conversation with Roger Pines

• Stephen Hastings shines a spotlight on the great Polish tenor Jean de Reszke

• Elza van den Heever talks to Eric Myers as she prepares to sing Salome at the Met

• The director Yuval Sharon shares his plans and ideas with James C. Taylor

• Our emerging artist of the month is the contralto Jasmin White, heading to London in May and Bergen in June

Productions reviewed this month around the world include Festen at Covent Garden, Love Life and Der fliegende Holländer at Opera North, Un ballo in maschera in Zurich, Vanessa in Moscow, Giulio Cesare in Ravenna, La forza del destino in Athens, Norma in Leipzig, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in Dijon, Pohjalaisia in Helsinki, Maria Stuarda in Copenhagen, Salome in Antwerp, Les Troyens in Graz, Primero Sueño in New York, La scuola de’ gelosi in Los Angeles