SELECTED ARTICLES
from Opera Magazine
The one I’ve always wanted
Amanda Holden on compiling The Viking Opera Guide,
Opera, October 1993, pp.1172-6
A librettist’s view
Amanda Holden on working with Turnage
Opera, February 2000, pp.175-9
Viennese School – Amanda Holden remembers Egon Wellesz
Opera, Festivals 2003, pp.50-3
Garden of Eden Opera
Garden Opera’s Cinderella tour in Kenya, 2006
Opera, May 2006, pp.540-4
My first opera: Carmen, Royal Opera House, 1955
Opera, April 2004, p.512
I can’t live without: Rehearsals
Opera, August 2002, p.1028
Mark Wigglesworth
Opera, May 2003, p.530
If I came back as…: The Queen of the Night
Opera, August 2007, p.1024
I wish I’d been there
Opera, January 2013, p.144
LARGO AL FACTOTUM – The Translator
Opera, May 2015, p.688
from other publications
Opera in English
The Stage, 12 April 2019
Opera’s new voices: 10 composers making overtures to greatness
The Guardian, February 2016
Amanda Holden ‘From where I sit.’ re. Opera Guides
Gramophone, February 2002
The Birth of the Third
Boosey & Hawkes Music Diary 1996
Cinderella goes to Kenya
The Guardian, 2006
Bliss
Librettist’s note in the world premiere programme
Opera Australia, 2010
Falstaff, on translating him
Mid Wales opera programme, 2010
L’occasione fa il maestro – Rossini’s early operas
GSMD programme, 1994
Mozart’s First Munich Opera – La finta giardiniera
WNO programme 1994
Translating Opera
Coliseum, Issue 18, spring/summer 2003
Words for Music
Magma Poetry, issue 58, spring 2014
selected interviews
Mark Elder
on Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust
Coliseum, Issue 3, March 1997 ENO magazine
Josephine Barstow
on Britten’s Gloriana
Opera North magazine, Spring 2005
all articles are reproduced with permission from their original publishers
BROADCASTS
Amanda has appeared regularly on BBC radio 3: Private Passions; In Tune; interval interviews & talks, and BBC radio 4; Front Row, Woman’s Hour, etc.
Listen to Amanda Holden talk about writing the Bliss libretto on Australia’s The Book Show,March 2010
Listen to Amanda Holden discuss Bliss on Deutsche Welle just before its Hamburg premiere, September 2010
LECTURES
Amanda has lectured on a wide variety of musical, mostly operatic, subjects. Some were written for her lectures for travel companies, hence their site-specific titles….
sample titles:
Beethoven in Bonn
Translating Opera
Handel, a 21st century dramatist
Love duets, a subversive look at Valentine’s Day
Piazzola; a great Argentinian composer
Villa-Lobos, Brazil’s musical voice
Mozart in Italy
La finta giardiniera: Mozart’s `coming of age’ opera
Mozart and the sea: Idomeneo
Mozart’s last two operas: The Magic Flute & La clemenza di Tito
Composers on the Rhine: Mozart and Wagner
Composers on the Rhine: Schumann and Brahms
The Rhine in Myth and Music
Tosca: the diva, the play, the opera
British composers at sea: Elgar’s Sea Pictures & Vaughan-Williams’ Sea Symphony