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Mascagni’s Hybrid Flower by Ditlev Rindom

Innocence and modernity collide in a fantasy of Japan from the fin-de-siècle, Iris, writes Ditlev Rindom.

Alice relaxed

Verdi’s Daughters by Adrian Mourby

Fathers and their missing daughters is a theme that runs readily through Verdi's operas, writes Adrian Mourby.

Orientalism and the triumph of the coloratura by Antony Lias

Antony Lias discusses the omnipresent orientalism in Delibes's Lakmé

Strange Harmony of Contrasts

George Hall delves into the contrasting harmonies and themes in Puccini's triptych Il trittico

Looking from within

'Il trittico, and particularly its middle opera Suor Angelica, have accompanied me throughout my professional journey', writes mezzo soprano Rosalind Plowright OBE