Olivier Keegel

Editor-in-Chief

Chief Editor. Does not need much more than Verdi, Bellini and Donizetti. Wishes to resuscitate Tito Schipa and Fritz Wunderlich. Certified unmasker of directors' humbug.

Esther Chayes

Reviewer

Esther Chayes received her soloist diploma at the Utrecht Conservatory. Specialization in the opera profession followed in New York, Milan and Turin. She sang with the choir of the Teatro Regio Torino and made her debut in the leading role in La Molinara by Paisiello. After performing several smaller to medium roles, Chayes turned to teaching.

Mauricio Fernandez

REVIEWER

Opera has played a major role since my childhood in Mexico. In Holland responsable for the casting of all sorts of vocal works with an accent on opera concerts in the Concertgebouw organized by the Dutch Radio.

Vincent Lombardo

REVIEWER

Vincent Lombardo graduated in Opera Studies from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. While on the stage directing staff of the New York City Opera, he collaborated with the Metropolitan Opera. In 1978, Maestro Claudio Abbado invited him to Teatro alla Scala as an Assistant Stage Director, for which he was awarded a Fulbright Grant.

Marco Aranowicz

Reviewer

MARCO ARANOWICZ IS BASED IN ZURICH. HE IS GOING TO THE OPERA SINCE THE AGE OF TEN, AND HE LIVES FOR THE GREAT ITALIAN OPERA REPERTORY.

Hugo Delava

REVIEWER

Favourite composers: Bellini, Braunfels, Donizetti, Mercadante, Meyerbeer, Rossini and Schreker. "Tenor-minded": Michael Spyres, Andreas Schager, Rockwell Blake.

Robert Levine

REVIEWER

Robert Levine is music writer and editor. He initiated Amazon.com's classical CD store. Author of "Weep, Shudder, Die - A Guide to Loving Opera," "Maria Callas - A Musical Biography," and "A Child's Guide to the Orchestra".

Palmyre Timmermans

DESK EDITOR

First prize in diction, singing and music history at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. Enthusiastic admirer of Richard Strauss and Wagner.

Guillaume Maijeur

REVIEWER

Founder of Opera Gazet (1999). Prefers the German repertoire, particularly the composers Wagner, Richard Strauss and Mozart.

Marina Boagno

REVIEWER

Marina Boagno acted for many years as an amateur talent scout, organizing concerts, and creating and directing events. Author of "Franco Corelli – Un uomo, una voce" (1990) and a biography of Ettore Bastianini’s, “Una Voce di Bronzo e di Velluto” (2003).

Stéphane Gilbart

REVIEWER

Based in Luxembourg, but lyrically nomadic . With eclectic tastes, and always happy with the surprises that opera continues to offer him : other soloists, another conductor, another director, just a new one, etc. Happy also to share what he lived here, there or elsewhere.

Hugo Delava

REVIEWER

Favourite composers: Bellini, Braunfels, Donizetti, Mercadante, Meyerbeer, Rossini and Schreker. "Tenor-minded": Michael Spyres, Andreas Schager, Rockwell Blake.

Jean Jordy

REVIEWER

Jean Jordy, professeur de Lettres Classiques, amateur d'opéra et de chant lyrique depuis l'enfance. Critique musical sur plusieurs sites français, il aime Mozart, Debussy, Rameau, Verdi, Britten, Debussy, et tout le spectacle vivant.

Olivier Rouvière

REVIEWER

Diplômé en Histoire de l’Art et docteur en Lettres, Olivier Rouvière est journaliste musical, spécialisé en dramaturgie de l’opéra. Ancien producteur délégué à France Musique. Répertoires de prédilection : baroque et slave, au sens large.

David Meadows

Reviewer

David is a career performing arts practitioner based in Melbourne. He aspires to transcendence in his artistic endeavours. When it comes to opera, he has very little patience with those in professional practice who attempt anything but the same.

Corinne Romijn

COLUMNIST

Corinne Romijn is a Dutch opera singer. She has sung many mezzo-soprano roles in the major opera houses in Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Strasbourg, Nancy, Amsterdam and Vienna. She lives in Greece, on the beautiful island of Crete.

Tiziano Virgili

REVIEWER

Physicist, professor at Salerno’s University. Opera fan for more than fifty years, with special interest for Russian, Czech, and in general less performed operas. Strongly believes that Great Art doesn’t need updates, and that operas work perfectly just as they were originally conceived.

Andreas Rey

REVIEWER

Opera critic since 4 years. I love opera since I heard Zauberflöte and Callas as a child, and I love BACH as well, since my first listening of the Goldberg variations with Gould. I have listened to classical music since I know how to use my ears. Callas fan at heart.

Federico Rota

REVIEWER

Federico Rota was a member of the local opera choir, the Teatro Regio di Parma, from 1980 to 2000. He then served on the Teatro Regio's artistic committee as a freelance consultant. He was co-author of the biographies of Ettore Bastianini and Franco Corelli and published in various magazines.

Christian Jaeger

REVIEWER

Christian Jaeger has a passion for the operas of 19th-century Italian composers, is always amazed at how innovative Gluck and Cherubini sound, and loves repertoire companies.

Christoph G. Molitor

Christoph graduated from the Mozarteum University of Music and Performing Arts in Salzburg. He is areviewer, an illustrator, author and puppeteer.