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Opera Now captures the drama, colour and vitality of one of the most powerful of all the performing arts, showcasing the creative spirit of opera both on stage and behind the scenes. In addition, our 32-year magazine archive is now available to subscribers to our ‘digital’ and ‘print & digital’ packages, allowing you to explore more than 270 issues of opera history.

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Looking after an artist’s mental health

TOBY HESSION Composer and pianist

NEWS & NOTES Ralph Fiennes to direct new Paris production of Onegin

Six new productions for Met Opera 2025-26 season

News in Brief

The Royal Ballet and Opera announces 2025-26 season

IN OperaNow AUTUMN 2025

WNO chorus votes in favour of further industrial action

John Nelson, 1941-2025

Streetwise Opera • An RPS Award-winning company tackling homelessness and challenging established hierarchies in opera

NEWS & NOTES This year in opera history • Four hundred years ago… the first known opera written by a woman, Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero, was performed in Florence on 3 February 1625

What I would like to change… • We ask opera lovers what they would change about the industry, if they could

Opera’s online champions • Babatunde Akinboboye

Have your say • Readers tell us about an opera production that has stayed with them

Why are song recitals so difficult to sell? • Despite their emotional depth and artistic brilliance, song recitals struggle to attract audiences – it’s time to ask why

Prompter • Opera isn’t dead. It’s fighting back

Opera UCT • At Opera University of Cape Town, Jeremy Silver leads the next generation of vocal talent, with a commitment to preparing students for every aspect of a professional operatic career

A voice of her own • As Welsh-Ukrainian soprano Natalya Romaniw prepares to step into the role of Sieglinde last-minute in the Royal Opera’s new Die Walküre, she talks to Jessica Duchen about self-doubt, stage fright, and the power of perseverance

Birds eye view • After 35 years at the helm of Opera America, Marc A Scorca is stepping down. From the rise of new American opera to championing diverse voices, he reflects on the past, present, and future of the art form and why creative renewal is essential to opera’s survival

Voice for change • Bass Brindley Sherratt speaks about his gala at The Grange, fundraising for the Meath Epilepsy Charity – the specialist care home that transformed life for his daughter, Amy, who lives with complex epilepsy

Letter from Istanbul • Currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra boasts an average age of 35 and multiple collaborations with renowned opera soloists

A fight for legacy • As Longborough Festival stages the UK premiere of Avner Dorman’s Wahnfried, conductor Justin Brown and soprano Susan Bullock explore the opera’s bold retelling of the Wagner family’s turbulent history

Fauré reawakened • As the Bayerische Staatsoper prepares to stage Gabriel Fauré’s Pénélope, we explore the history of the work with director Andrea Breth and conductor Susanna Mälkki

Raising the bar • At 27, conductor Charlotte Corderoy is making waves in the opera world, with debuts at English National Opera, Glyndebourne, and beyond. We meet the rising star whose journey has taken her from cathedral choirs to the international stage

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