Opera Now | Autumn 2025
The Autumn issue of Opera Now has an American focus, beginning with our cover star, the rising Finnish-American tenor Miles Mykkanen. He speaks to us about his Metropolitan Opera debut in Mason Bates’ world premiere The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Mykkanen shares his journey to singing on the world stage, setting up his music festival and living closely to his beliefs and identity.
Conductor Daniela Candillari speaks to the Editor about her career in new opera, early influences in her native Serbia and Slovenia, debuting in the UK and leading the Opera Theater of Saint Louis.
Gerald Finley speaks about the ruthless and manipulative Scarpia as he takes on the role at the Royal Opera's new production of Tosca. Holly Baker meets Francesca Zambello, Artistic Director of the Kennedy Center to speak about its new season and the realities of running the company following the Trump administration.
Our Young Artist Programme focus looks at the Berlin Staatsoper's International Opera Studio, and as the Halloween season approaches, our small company focus is the London-based Gothic Opera, whose production of De Vampyr last autumn was widely praised.
As opera houses release future plans, we give our top pics of the 2025/26 season and in a new feature looking at the work of opera designers, we go behind the scenes at London-based takis's studio!
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Opera Now Autumn 2025.