INDEX TO OPERA— VOLUME 59

Four indexes are here compiled:

I. General subject index II. Index of contributors page 15 III. Index of works page 22 IV. Index of artists (singers, conductors, producers and designers etc) page 36

Aphotograph is indicated by (p) after the page number

pages 1-112 January

113-240 February

241-368 March

369-496 April

497-624 May

625-752 June

pages 753-880 July

881-1008 August

1009-1136 September

1137-1272 October

1273-1408 November

1409-1544 December

pages F1-F128Festivals issue

I. GENERALSUBJECTINDEX

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

Abbiati (Franco) Award..............................775 Abu Dhabi: Dresden Staatskapelle............524 Adelaide: Adelaide Festival............................909-10(p) Co-Opera..................................................515 State Opera of South Australia..........32-4(p), 141, 775 Plans....................................................225-6 Aix-en-Provence..................902(p), 1050-2(p) Plans......................................................F70-1 Grand Théâtre de Provence Exterior..............................................F71(p) Aldborough: Northern Aldborough Festival Plans........................................................F54 Aldeburgh Festival........141, 373(p), 972-3(p) Plans................................................F54-5(p) American Academy of Arts & Sciences....775 Amsterdam: Concertgebouw........................................558 Holland Festival ............................1063-4(p) Plans....................................................F71-2 Nationale Reisopera ..............................1201 Netherlands Opera............52-3(p), 300-1(p), 426-7(p), 556-8, 686-7, 930-2(p), 1063-4(p), 1465-6(p) Plans ......................................................739 In London Plans ....................................................606 Angers Nantes Opera ................................160 ‘An Anglo-Irish Rossini?’by Basil Walsh 142-8(p)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan School of Music ..............................................938-9(p) Annandale-on-Hudson: Summerscape Festival ......................................................1470-1(p) ‘Anthony Minghella, 1954-2008’by David Parry................................................505-6(p) Antwerp: Royal Flemish Philharmonic..................1296 Vlaamse Opera............404-5(p), 662-3, 789, 1192-3(p) Plans..................................................1123-4 ‘Arabian opera nights’by John Allison 26-30(p) ‘Around the operatic edge’by Michael Kennedy......................................394-400(p) ‘The art of noise’by William Germano 271-7(p) Arts Council England........117, 245, 391, 772, 1426 Arts Council of Northern Ireland............1277 Asian Women of Achievement Awards......775 Aspen Music Festival ................................270 Plans......................................................F72-3 Athens: Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall................799-800 Greek National Opera ..415-16(p), 550-1(p), 923-5(p) Auckland: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra........1331 New Zealand Opera................................1331 Plans ......................................................226

2 Augsburg................................................39-40 Avenches: Festival d’Opéra Avenches Plans........................................................F73 Les Azuriales Plans......................................................F73-4 Bad Ischl: Lehár Festival Plans......................................................F74-6 Bad Wildbad Plans........................................................F76 Baden-Baden Festspielhaus......................40-2 Plans........................................................F74 Baghdad Opera House........................26-30(p) Bamberg Symphony Orchestra..................524 Bampton Classical Opera....1207-9(p), F51(p) Plans......................................................F55-6 Bangkok Opera ......................................691-2 Barcelona: Gran Teatre del Liceu............54-5, 271(p), 393, 558-9(p), 932-3(p), 1333-4 Plans ........................................................869 Bard SummerScape Plans........................................................F77 Bärenreiter................................................1038 Barga Opera Festival................................1456 Plans........................................................F77 Basel: Basle Chamber Orchestra In Birmingham Plans ....................................................736 Theater Basel....................................561-3(p) Basingstoke: The Opera Group........1362-4(p) Bath Festival Plans........................................................F56 Baugé Plans......................................................F77-8 Bayreuth..5, 652, 1167-81(p), 1286-8, F79(p) Plans......................................................F78-9 Internet performances..............................906 Wolfgang Wagner’s retirement ..........1164-5 BBC Radio..........................................1412-13 Plans........101, 227, 355, 483, 611, 740, 871, 1000, 1127, 1259, 1395, 1532 New Generation Artists’Scheme..........1428 Beaune: Festival International d’Opéra Baroque Plans....................................................F79-80 Beijing: National Centre for Performing Arts 655-9(p), 1045-6 Interior ................................................656(p) Belfast: Castleward Opera..................................1277 Opera Northern Ireland..........................1277 Belle-Ile en Mer Plans........................................................F80 Bergen: Bergen International Festival Plans....................................................F80-1 Bergen Philharmonic................................908 Den Nye Opera................................173-4(p)

Berlin: Deutsche Oper..11(p), 25, 44-6(p), 290-1(p), 547, 671-2(p), 919-20(p), 1317(p), 1318-19 Plans....................................................867-9 Festtage ................................................672-3 Hebbel Theater........................................43-4 Komische Oper....43(p), 293, 546-7(p), 906, 918(p), 1317 Plans..................................................1393-4 Philharmonic............................................653 Staatsoper Unter den Linden........42-3, 141, 292-3(p), 546, 652-3, 671-3(p), 772-5, 917-18(p), 1317-18 Plans..................................................1253-4 Bilbao: Asociación Bilbaína de Amigos de la Opera (ABAO) ....................175, 812, 934 Birmingham: Basle Chamber Orchestra Plans ......................................................736 Birmingham Conservatoire..................701-2 Birmingham Opera Company..64-6(p), 117, 245, 391, 775, 1227-8(p) Plans ......................................................996 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra In London..........................................712-13 Plans ....................................................480 Rostov State Opera....................................63 Symphony Hall Plans ......................................................736 ‘Birtwistle’s labyrinth’by David Beard 372-81(p) Bloomington: Jacobs School of Music......939 Bologna: Teatro Comunale552-5(p), 1197-9(p) Book reviews: ‘The Autumn of Italian Opera’by Alan Mallach................................................734 ‘Beethoven’s Century’by Hugh Macdonald 1526-7 ‘Boosey & Hawkes’by Helen Wallace..96-7 ‘Challenges: AMemoir of My Life in Opera’ by Sarah Caldwell ........................1389-90 ‘Constance Shacklock’by Ian Thompson 478(p) ‘Culture and sacrifice’by Derek Hughes 349-50 ‘Enchantress of Nations: Pauline Viardot’by Michael Steen....................................862-3 ‘Encyclopedia of American Opera’by Ken Wlaschin..............................................864 ‘Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880’by Jennifer Hall-Witt 221-2 ‘Herrin des Hügels: Das Leben der Cosima Wagner’by Oliver Hilmes..................93-4 ‘I am Melba’by Ann Blainey..........1117-21 ‘An Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Giacomo Meyerbeer’by Robert Ignatius Letellier................................................863

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