Opera Now - June 2023

This month’s cover artist is countertenor Iestyn Davies, who sings Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto at Garsington Opera this summer.

Other in-depth features include talking to Voice of Black Opera Award-winner, South African tenor Thando Mjandana about managing a life on stage.

Elsewhere, a new column about opera’s industry is launched by Andrew Mellor, we present the best of European Opera Festivals, Véronique Gens speaks about her recital at Leeds Lieder Festival and designer Hannah Postlethwaite is our Young Artist of the Month.

Reviews include a focus on the English National Opera, the Met Opera’s production of Falstaff and Tales of Hofmann from La Scala. Julie Fuchs’s new album Amadè is Album of the Month.