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International Export
International star tenor Jonas Kaufmann is grateful for the lessons he’s learned at his artistic home — Zurich Opera. DAVID SHENGOLD reports.

Switzerland: A Photographic Portfolio
Produced and photographed by GREGORY DOWNER

The Silk King
WILLIAM V. MADISON shops at the salons of Zurich’s André Stutz.

High Fidelity
Soprano Malin Hartelius has forged a major career singing Mozart on the stage of Zurich's Opera House. She talks to ADAM WASSERMAN about her abiding love for the company.

Music in the Air
DAVID J. BAKER tours Switzerland for a sampling of what's happening in opera.

Little Big House
DAVID J. BAKER visits Zurich Opera — a small theater with a large international reputation.

Letter from Geneva
WILLIAM V. MADISON discovers the charms of Switzerland's second city.

Festival Magic
Some of the best musicians in Europe tell MATTHEW GUREWITSCH what draws them to the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

The Alpine Muse
JÖRG VON UTHMANN looks at some of the famous musicians who have been inspired by the Swiss landscape.

Recordings
CRITIC'S CHOICE: Francis Xavier's travels inspire Savall's latest release; Harnoncourt leads Salzburg's Le Nozze di Figaro; Rachmaninoff's Francesca da Rimini, led by Noseda; recitals by Villazón, Maltman and Güra; Sutherland and Pears sing Handel; new recordings of Monteverdi's Ulisse and Dyson's Nebuchadnezzar; Bantock's Omar Khayyám. VIDEO: Kaufmann stars in Zurich's Fierrabras; Holten directs a centenary production of Nielsen's Maskarade; Popp and Jerusalem in Vienna's 1982 Bartered Bride; Doyle's production of Mahagonny in L.A.; Del Monaco's Cav/Pag shows arresting contrast; Bondy's Turn of the Screw provides competition; Turnage's Greek is a modern telling of Oedipus Rex.

In Review
NORTH AMERICA: A new Peter Grimes at the Met; world premiere of Heggie’s Last Acts at HGO; Keiser’s King Croesus at Minnesota Opera; Dallas Opera's Porgy and Bess; Il Trovatore in Toledo; Virginia Opera’s Eugene Onegin; New York City Opera's Mark Morris staging of Purcell’s King Arthur; San Diego hears Maria Stuarda. INTERNATIONAL: Christy stars in a new ENO Lucia; Salome dances at Covent Garden; Genoveva sings in Zurich; Schoeck’s Penthesilea in Basel; Genaux sings La Cenerentola in Geneva; López-Cobos leads Tristan und Isolde in Madrid. CONCERTS: Quasthoff sings Schubert in Boston; Smith song cycle premiere stars Blythe; Queler leads OONY’s La Sonnambula.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Broadcast of May 3, 1:30 P.M.

Viewpoint: Master Storyteller
by F. PAUL DRISCOLL

OperaWatch
by F. PAUL DRISCOLL

Sound Bites: Jennifer Holloway
by SCOTT BARNES

Voices of Summer
OUSSAMA ZAHR picks the best of Europe’s summer festivals.

Books
A revisionist biography of diva Lotte Lehmann

Obituaries
Giuseppe di Stefano, peerless tenor of the 1950s, dies at eighty-six; soprano Inga Nielsen; television pioneer Kirk Browning; voice teacher Cornelius L. Reid; conductor Ronald W. Noll

Dateline: United States
by OUSSAMA ZAHR

Dateline: Canada & International

Coda: Separation Anxiety
by BRIAN KELLOW

May 07, 2008
John Cargher, OPERA NEWS's Longtime Correspondent in Australia, Dies at 89

May 02, 2008
Frances Yeend, 95, Mainstay Soprano of New York City Opera in 1940s and '50s

April 29, 2008
Bayreuth Festival Board Weighing Proposal For Joint Leadership by Wolfgang Wagner's Daughters

April 24, 2008
Free Met Summer Concert to Feature Gheorghiu and Alagna Live in Prospect Park on June 20

April 23, 2008
Tenor Matthew Polenzani Named as Third Recipient of Metropolitan Opera's Beverly Sills Artist Award

April 22, 2008
Met's 2008-09 Live in HD Season to Feature Eleven Transmissions to Some 800 Venues Worldwide

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