Opera Now Magazine July August 2020 Edizione posteriore

Following the triumph of her starring role in Welsh National Opera’s Sicilian Vespers earlier this year, Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan talks to Opera Now about focusing her attentions on helping a new generation of opera singers to negotiate the storms and upheavals that have transformed the opera world in recent times.
Plus, how opera companies are preparing to re-open their doors to live performances; Carlo Bergonzi on the secret of great Verdi singing; seven female opera directors defy tradition to give us their contemporary view of opera’s heroines; the role of comic opera in tragic times; a tribute to Sir Peter Jonas; Scottish soprano Lee Bissett; the legacy of Janine Reiss, one of the great voice coaches of our time; and your chance to win a Limited Edition box set of ‘Carlo Bergonzi – The Verdi Tenor’ on CD from DECCA Classics.