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the arts desk

26 December 2021

reviews, news & interviews

Best of 2021: Opera

Only seven and a half months of live performance, but what riches
under pressure

by David Nice

An innocent caught up in men's scheming: Mané Galoyan as Glyndebourne's Luisa Miller (centre)Richard
Hubert Smith

January to mid-May 2021 were the bleakest Covid months, yielding only the
occasional livestream at least half as good as being there (Barrie Kosky’s magically
reinvented Strauss Der Rosenkavalier from Munich, a film of Britten's The Turn of the
Screw around Wilton’s Music Hall more imaginative than the actual production).
The burden then fell, in England at least, on the country opera houses. It was clear from the
start that the operatic heroes of the year would be the administrations of Glyndebourne,