Summer Letter to My Subscribers

The highlights on Operalogue June - August

Dear All,

Summer has arrived so it’s high time I gave my valued subscribers an update on performances I plan to write about in coming months.

The summer opera season offers a great variety of repertoire for those who can afford the ticket prices. I’ll be sending dispatches from Garsington, Grange Park Opera, The Grange Festival, Longborough and Waterperry Opera - leavened with highlights from European summer festivals, including Aix-en-Provence, Lerici, Pesaro, and Salzburg.

I welcome all your comments and feedback - even when it’s critical! - and look forward to meeting some of you ‘on the road’ or at the Operalogue anniversary party at the end of the summer.

Wishing you all a happy, music-filled summer.

Hugh

A few upcoming highlights on Operalogue:

Country House Opera The Queen of Spades at Garsington and Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera, Die Fledermaus and Les Indes Galantes at the Grange Festival, Pelléas et Mélisande at Longborough, Semele at Waterperry Opera.

Italy Upcoming visits include Dialogues des Carmelites in Venice, Norma in Milan, Andrea Chénier in Turin, plus new productions of Zelmira and L’italiana in Algeri at Pesaro.

Paris At the Opéra-Bastille Asmik Grigorian in the hat-trick of soprano roles in Christof Loy’s staging of Puccini’s Trittico. At the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Véronique Gens’s first Marschallin in a new Rosenkavalier. There is also a new Faust at the Opéra-Comique which I hope to see in June.

Aix-en-Provence Simon Rattle conducts a new production of Don Giovanni, the festival’s signature opera, in a varied season planned by the late and lamented Pierre Audi.