Opera News
The cover of the March 2020 issue, featuring soprano Diana Damrau | |
| Editor-in-Chief | M. Ndimande |
|---|---|
| Categories | Classical music/Opera |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Total circulation (2018) | 51,578 |
| First issue | 1936 |
| Final issue | 2023 |
| Company | Metropolitan Opera Guild |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://operanews.com |
| ISSN | 0030-3607 |
Opera News was an American classical music magazine. It was published from 1936 to 2023 by the Metropolitan Opera Guild—a non-profit organization, located at Lincoln Center, that was founded to promote opera and support the Metropolitan Opera ("the Met") of New York City. Opera News was initially focused almost exclusively on the Met and its activities, providing information for listeners of the Saturday afternoon live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.
Over the years, the magazine broadened its scope to include the larger American and international opera scenes. Published monthly, Opera News offered opera-related feature articles; artist interviews; production profiles; musicological pieces; music-business reportage; reviews of performances in the U.S. and Europe; reviews of recordings, videos, books and audio equipment; and listings of opera performances and recitals in the U.S.
The final Editor-in-Chief was F. Paul Driscoll. Regular contributors to the magazine included its former features editor, Brian Kellow, William Ashbrook, Scott Barnes, Jochen Breiholz, Fred Cohn, Erika Davidson, Justin Davidson, Peter G. Davis, Matthew Gurewitsch, Joel Honig, Tim Page, Judith Malafronte, Mark Thomas Ketterson, Martin Bernheimer, Ira Siff, Joanne Sydney Lessner, Anne Midgette, Drew Minter, William R. Braun, Phillip Kennicott, Joshua Rosenblum, Leslie Rubinstein, Alan Wagner, Steven Jude Tietjen, Adam Wasserman, Oussama Zahr, and William Zakariasen.
The magazine was also available online.
On August 15, 2023, the Metropolitan Opera announced that Opera News would be discontinued in November and incorporated into the British magazine Opera.