Opera News

From Screen to Stage. A surprising number of new operas are being inspired by movies

Spread for the special awards issue

'Power Unleashed'

An account of the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns' visit to the Zoological Society in New York on one of his tours of Amercia. An animal lover he was dismayed at the state of the lions and other large animals and their small enclosures.

Saint-Saëns is most famous for 'The Carnival of the Animals' musical suite

Illustration for the Opera News Awards cover

'Talking Chances'

Opera companies assess how to win back and keep audiences

'California Sound' 

Review of John Adams' new opera The Girls of the Golden West. The opera is inspired by the letters of Louise Clappe, who lived for a year and a half from 1851 in the mining settlement of Rich Bar (now Diamondville, California) during the California Gold Rush

Map of the US showing the locations of the summer's classical music festival

'Progress Report'

Accompanying an article about the strength of the classical recording industry in the face of technological and social changes in the way people listen to music