December 2019

• Tributes to the great Jessye Norman
• We profile the soprano Barbara Hannigan as she prepares to sing in Hans Abrahamsen’s new opera The Snow Queen at Munich’s Bayerisches Staatsoper
• John Allison takes stock of Stanisław Moniuszko’s bicentenary as the Polish composer’s Halka is staged at in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien
• Chris Walton on the intertwining careers of Mahler and the Wagnerian tenor Adolf Wallnöfer, who once ‘boxed his ears’ backstage
• David Shengold on his favourite recording: Carmen, with Solange Michel, conducted by André Cluytens and released in 1950 

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