Opera Now

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.

Opera Now

Rediscovery and renewal

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Cumbria Opera Group • As it celebrates its 10th anniversary, Cumbria Opera Group reflects on the importance of opera in the county

Washington National Opera sues Kennedy Center for $17 million

News in Brief

Teatro La Fenice dismisses Music Director Beatrice Venezi

King’s Birthday Honours recognise leading figures in opera

The Royal Ballet and Opera to cut workforce by 5.5%

Metropolitan Opera receives $2 million grant from New York State

WINTER 2026

Dame Felicity Lott 1947-2026 • Following her death at age 79 in May, we look back on the career-defining moments of soprano Dame Felicity Lott

Prompter • ‘Unlikely’ opera plots have surely never had it better

Avoiding the uncomfortable • As opera companies grapple with the politics of the past, are today’s productions confronting difficult ideas, or quietly steering around them?

The next step • The British countertenor Hugh Cutting is pushing for opera to prioritise character, risk and emotional impact over spectacle alone

Perspectives of belief • As director Evgeny Titov prepares to stage Wagner’s Parsifal at the Royal Opera, he speaks about politics, perspective and criticism when it comes to the artform

Bayreuth beginnings • As the Bayreuth Festival marks its 150th anniversary, we explore its origins, tracing Wagner’s achievements back to the theatrical world of the 19th century that enabled them

New horizons • As Hilary Cronin brings experience, warmth and quiet charisma to Errollyn Wallen’s new opera A Christmas Miracle, she discusses the role, music and the journey that led her there

The Greatest Tenors • Their music, their lives and their legacies

Lone Star revolution • Through artistic continuity and its dedication to the next generation, Houston Grand Opera has become the creative powerhouse of American opera

Must-see new opera productions in the 2026-27 season • Raising the curtain on the 2026-27 season, we highlight some key new productions to hit the world’s biggest stages

Letter from Athens • Celebrating operatic legends and Greek history, the 2025 International Opera Awards at Greek National Opera gave an insight into the workings of a remarkable company

LIVE REVIEWS

Katya in Katya Kabanova • Corinne Winters shares her insights into the impassioned character of Katya in Janáček’s 1921 opera

Giordano before Chénier • Long before Andrea Chénier made him famous, a young Umberto Giordano wrote an ambitious one-act opera that vanished without trace. A new recording reveals the remarkable work that almost disappeared from operatic history

New releases

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Spotlight Aug-Oct 2026 • Production Highlights • World Premieres • Exceptional Casts

The Opera Now Quiz • Do you know your Verdi from your Wagner? Test your wits in this month’s set of fiendish questions for the dedicated opera buff (with a clue or two in the pictures)

Andrew Edwards • In a series highlighting the work of opera designers and makers, Holly Baker and Georgia Keeley visit the designer’s home studio

The opera lover’s essential guide

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