LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
2 Our Autobiography…in its Way
CENTENNIAL SPECIAL
4 Puccini’s Operas
5 Essays in Remembrance
6 Singing like Wayne
8 Emma Destinn aka Minnie: A Courageous Girl
10 The mistery of Turandot
12 The Unfathomable Heart of Turandot
13 The Moon and the Other Side of the Moon
15 Magda for the First Time
17 Magda: Between the Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle
18 Fox, Tango, and Ragtime
20 Sour Angelica: love denied. The Silence. The Peace
21 Suor Angelica born Geraldine Farrar
23 La Zia Principessa: The Other Puccini and Contralto Voice
25 The Divine Claudia (Muzio): Giorgetta and Puccini
28 Giorgetta: the Drama of Denied Happiness
29 Lauretta: Born Florence Easton
31 Gianni Schicchi and Lauretta: a Family of Rascals
35 Scarpia’s Challenge
37 The Face of Tosca: From Angelica Catalani to Hariclèa Darclè
39 Tosca: the Theater of Deception in the Shadow of Castel Sant’Angelo
CURRENT EVENTS
41 TORRE DEL LAGO Pier luigi invents a Festival full of important proposals
REVIEWS
47 Reviews
THEATRES OF ITALY
50 VENETO The Arena – The Magical World of Opera
63 THE GRAND THEATER LA FENICE The art of Rising Again
FESTIVALS
56 BAYREUTH The Many Reasons to go to Bayreuth
58 SALZBURG FESTSPIELE Great Music in the City of Mozart
60 The Mystery of Being from Friedrich to Contemporary Work
61 GLYNDEBOURNE Glyndebourne Festiva: An Oasis of Music
68 AIX-EN PROVENCE A Festival Between Innovation and Tradition
INTERVIEWS
71 MARINA REBEKA The Power of Music and Voice
FROM ABROAD
75 Tirana Madama Butterfly
77 Paris Don Quichotte
79 Muscat Homage to Maria Callas, La Bohème
81 Barcelona Cinderella
82 Dresden Dresden Festspiele
83 Madrid Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Tenorio
85 Madrid La verbena della paloma
86 Las Palmas di Gran Canaria Roberto Devereux
87 Liège I Capuleti and i Montecchi
89 Zurich Der Ring des Nibelungen
91 Zurich L’Orfeo
92 Leizpig Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
94 Halle Amadigi di Gaula
95 Malaga Manon Lescaut
CENTENNIAL SPECIAL
96 A Remembrance by Steve Acunto
CALENDAR
102 Program by Aurora Alba
