Opera Now Magazine February 2019 Edição anterior

Soprano Venera Gimadieva, a rising star of bel canto, talks to Opera Now about her well-plotted journey from exotic Tatarstan to the great stages of the opera world; the fascinating career of soprano Lisa Della Casa; and Parma’s Verdi Festival celebrates the composer’s operatic genius.

Plus, Rosemary Joshua takes the helm of Amsterdam’s new Dutch National Opera; tackling the prejudice of an age at Helsinki’s Mirjam Helin Competition; composer Gavin Higgins introduces his new score for Covent Garden; Japanese contemporary opera at Tokyo’s New National Theatre; how Vilnius City Opera is changing the face of opera in Lithuania; the social impact of opera; and Wagnerian soprano Cornelia Beskow.