INDEX TO OPERA— VOLUME 58

Four indexes are here compiled:

I General subject index II Index of contributors page15 III Index of works page23 IVIndex of artists (singers, conductors, producers and designers etc) page37

Aphotograph is indicated by (p) after the page number

pages 1-128 January

129-256 February

257-384 March

385-512 April

513-640 May

641-768 June

pages 769-896 July

897-1024 August

1025-1160 September

1161-1292 October

1293-1420 November

1421-1548 December

pages F1-F128 Festivals issue

I. GENERALSUBJECTINDEX

Opera companies are listed under towns (e.g. London: Covent Garden and New York: Metropolitan Opera. Exceptions are: Dorset Opera; Early Opera Company; English Touring Opera; Figaro Opera; Garden Opera; Heritage Opera; Mid Wales Opera; Music Theatre Wales; Opera East; Opera Europe; The Opera Group; Opera South; Opera Theatre Company; Scottish Opera; Welsh National Opera

Aachen: Theater Aachen............................933 Aarhus: Jyske Opera........................1330-2(p) Aberdeen: Opera Garden......................1251-2 Abu Dhabi: Performing Arts Centre....528-9(p) ‘An accidental singer’by Stephen Pettitt 1439-43(p) Adelaide: Adelaide Festival Theatre..........672, 159-60 Singular Productions..............................1210 State Opera of South Australia......672, 1189, 1209-10, 1444 ‘Age is an operatic issue’by John Allison....771 Aix-en-Provence Festival ....1072-3, F31-5(p) Plans ................................................F67-8(p) ‘Alan Blyth, 1929-2007’by Janet Baker and Max Loppert................................1168-71(p) Aldborough: Northern Aldborough Festival Plans........................................................F50 Aldeburgh Festival..................976-7(p), 993-4 Plans......................................................F50-1 Alessandria: Teatro Municipale ................560 ‘Amazing Grace’by Yehuda Shapiro....20-3(p) Amsterdam: Holland Festival ....643, 654-6(p), 1086-8(p) Plans ............................................F68-70(p) Muziektheater ............................................52 Netherlands Opera......289, 322-4(p), 533(p), 564-7(p), 643, 830, 942-4(p), 1470 Plans ......................................................753 Westergasfabriek................................1470-1

Ancona: Teatro delle Muse....................560-1 Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Opera Theatre....................................................950 Annandale-on-Hudson: Bard Summerscape 1475-6 Antwerp: Vlaamse Opera........................1057 Plans ......................................................1012 ‘Around midnight’by Peter Alward....535-7(p) Arts & Business..............................261, 286-8 Arts Council England......389, 394, 404, 1031 Artsworld Plans....................................116-17, 243, 370 Aspen Opera Theater........................1476-8(p) Plans........................................................F70 Athens: Alexandra Trianti Hall........................559-60 Festival Plans ..............................................F70-1(p) Greek National Opera ..179-80(p), 558-9(p), 823-4(p), 937-8(p), 1055-7, 1224 Auckland: NBR New Zealand Opera..........53 Avenches Festival Plans........................................................F71 Avignon: Opééra Thééââtre d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse................................929-30 Les Azuriales Plans......................................................F71-2 Bad Ischl Festival Plans........................................................F73

2 Bad Wildbad Plans........................................................F74 Baden-Baden: Whitsun Festival ..........1076-7 Plans........................................................F72 Bamako..................................................655(p) Bampton Classical Opera Plans........................................................F54 In London....................................466, 1380-1 Plans ............................................623, 1144 Bangkok: Thailand Cultural Center......194-6(p) Barcelona: Gran Teatre del Liceu......57-8(p), 447, 522, 571, 834-6(p), 1088-9, 1359 Plans......................................................753-4 Barga: Festival Opera Barga....................1348 Bartóók International Opera Conducting Competition............................................909 Bath Festival Plans........................................................F54 Baugéé Plans........................................................F75 Bayreuth........656-8, 1031, 1219-21(p), 1303, 1337-40(p), F10-13(p) Plans......................................................F75-6 Interior ................................................F13(p) BBC Cardiff Singer of the World......25, 406, 909(p), 978-80 BBC Philharmonic In Manchester........................................858-9 BBC Radio......................................131, 521-2 Plans................116, 243, 370, 500, 627, 756, 886, 1016, 1150, 1279, 1407, 1536 New Generation Artists Programme......1057 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra........1433 BBC Television............................220-1, 521-2 Beaune Festival Plans......................................................F76-7 Belfast: Belfast Festival at Queen’s Plans ....................................................1276 Opera Theatre Company......................582-3 Belle-Ile en Mer Plans......................................................F77-8 Bergamo: Bergamo Music Festival ......................441-2 Donizetti Prize..........................................151 Bergen International Festival Plans........................................................F78 Berkshire Opera........................................1480 Berlin......................................................172-3 Berlin Philharmonic ................................310 Deutsche Oper..........23-5, 173-5(p), 309-10, 680-2, 1077(p), 1078 Komische Oper........23-5, 41-2(p), 307-9(p), 406, 681(p), 682, 812-13(p) Plans ....................................................1146 Neukööllner Oper....................................175-6 Opera Foundation....................................23-5

Staatsoper Unter den Linden..........23-5, 26, 42-4, 173, 652, 813-14(p), 1077-8, 1182(p), 1186(p), 1203(p) Plans................................................1012-13 Renovation ............................................651 Bern: Stadttheater ....................................1189 Bilbao Opera Friends Association..............571 Birmingham: Birmingham Conservatoire......................710 Birmingham Opera Company....261, 392(p) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1433 Plans ....................................................1534 In London Plans ....................................................882 London Concert Orchestra Plans ....................................................1534 New London Consort Plans ....................................................1403 The Opera Group................................1246-7 Bloomington: Indiana University School of Music ......................................................697 Bologna: Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna........793 Teatro Comunale............25, 182-5(p), 826-7 Bonn Opera Theater..................1078-80, 1456 Book reviews: ‘Australia’s Operatic Phoenix’by Alison Gyger................................................364-5 ‘Con Passione: Antonio Pappano’by Lucrece Maeckelbergh......................................621 ‘Divas and Scholars’by Philip Gossett27-30 ‘Heddle Nash: The Recorded Legacy’by Alan Blyth........................................620-1 ‘Janááˇcek: Years of a Life’by John Tyrrell 280-6 ‘Die Kunst der Oper’by Ulrich Schreiber 153-8 ‘ALife Behind Curtains’by Linda Esther Gray............................................1531-2(p) ‘Lilian Baylis: a Biography’by Elizabeth Schafer............................................1141-2 ‘Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart’s Librettist in the Old and New Worlds’by Rodney Bolt ..............237-8(p) ‘Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness’by Norman Lebrecht..........................535-7(p) ‘Musicking Shakespeare: AConflict of Theatres’by Daniel Albright........1529-30 ‘La Nilsson’by Birgit Nilsson............1530-1 ‘On Opera’by Bernard Williams ............112 ‘The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer’by Robert Ignatius Letellier ..................746-7 ‘The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930’by Susan Rutherford..............................494-5 ‘The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism and Modernity’by Alexandra Wilson 1140-1

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