Spring Operas AT ENO

Tosca Puccini Cat herine Malfitano’s staging starring Cla ire Rutter 26 Nov – 29 Jan

DER ROSENKAVALIER Str auss Sta rring Sar ah Con noly and John Tomlinson 28 Jan – 27 Feb the tales of hofman Off enbach Richard Jones directs this fantastical opera 10 Feb – 10 Mar the DEATH OF KLINGHOFER Ada ms The much-anticipated London stage premiere 25 Feb – 9 Mar Co ming T his Su mer J akob Lenz The Flying Dutchman Madam Butterfly Cal igula Billy Budd Dr Dee

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Front cover: Bryn Terfel as the Wanderer and Patricia Bardon as Erda in the Met’s new ‘Siegfried’ (see pp. 64-6) (photo: Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera)

Opera, January 2012

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood

Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

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By the Editor 4 That Broadway sound

Roger Pines looks at how vocalism in musical theatre has evolved over the decades 11 Readers’ letters 14 Americans in Versailles

George Loomis salutes Opera Lafayette’s rediscovery of Monsigny 17 People 397: Sophie Koch

Jon Tolansky 24 Newsdesk 28 Sparkle restored

George Loomis sees ‘Ruslan and Lyudmila’ in Moscow’s renovated Bolshoy Theatre 31 Obituary 32 Opera around the world

77 Opera in Britain

95 Opera on CD 102 Opera on DVD and Blu-ray 107 Opera books 114 Coming events including plans for the UK houses; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad 127 Classified advertisements 128 Wish I’d been there …

Horst Koegler

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