Jenu˚fa

ENO’s five-star, double Olivier Award-winning JANÁCˇEK sensation returns

Directed by DAVID ALDEN AMANDA ROOCROFT as Jenu˚fa

12 – 21 Mar 2009 5 performances only

Tickets from £16

ENO LIVE AT THE LONDON COLISEUM Book on 0871 911 0200 or at www.eno.org Illustrations by Steve Rawlings.

UK premiere of JOHN ADAMS’s major new work

Directed by PENNY WOOLCOCK GERALD FINLEY as Oppenheimer

25 Feb – 20 Mar 2009 9 performances only

‘A must-see’ The Times

A co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, New York March 2009 Volume 60 No 3

Editor John Allison Deputy Editor Erica Jeal Publisher Fletcher Dhew Subscriptions Manager Megan Jackson

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Front cover: Jessye Norman (see pp. 260-4) (photo: Carol Friedman)

259 Economy class By the Editor

Founded in 1950 by the Earl of Harewood Past Editors Harold Rosenthal and Rodney Milnes

260 Honor in our time Jessye Norman in conversation with David Shengold

265 Readers’ letters

269 Concerted efforts Michael Tanner weighs up staged opera vs concert performance

275 People 355: Véronique Gens John Allison

282 Newsdesk

285 Thirty years young ETO’s James Conway talks to Stephen Pettitt

290 Opera around the world

340 Opera in Britain

349 Opera on CD

359 Opera on DVD

364 Opera books

368 Coming events including plans for the UK houses, Los Angeles, Palermo, San Francisco, Toronto; ‘We hear that …’; Opera calendar home and abroad

383 Classified advertisements

384 If I came back as … Cleopatra Laurence Cummings

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