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Hattie Butterworth is a writer, journalist and cellist working as the Editor of Opera Now and Choir & Organ magazines. Graduating from the Royal College of Music in 2020, Hattie began freelance investigative work within the arts, launching her podcast Things Musicians Don't Talk About and writing for publications such as Gramophone, Evening Standard and The Strad, as well as programme notes for English National Opera and liner note interviews for Decca Classics.
Since becoming Opera Now's Editor, Hattie has advocated for greater online content awareness within opera, bringing an understanding of SEO and supporting both young opera singers and writers. She has encouraged the inception of news features, reflecting on the opera world as it stands, as well as opinion columns, art and design features and a regular 'young artist' feature. Through editing Choir & Organ, she has established partnerships with the Three Choirs Festival and Trinity College Cambridge, as part of the Choir & Organ New Music scheme for emerging composers
Countertenor Andreas Scholl and lutenist Edin Karamazov return to the music of John Dowland and English folk song in 'In Darkness', a vinyl-only release recorded direct to analogue tape for Berlin's Low Swing Records
Sophie Kauer on how film and fame won't get in the way of practicing
Composer Nico Muhly shares with Hattie Butterworth his thoughts on writing new church music, and discusses his relationship with faith and with the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Hattie Butterworth follows the National Children's Chorus of America as it extends its education to a vocal arts programme at California's Compton High School
Ted Huffman's new production for Glyndebourne's first Tosca is powerfully intimate
For centuries, same-sex desire in opera has been obscured or overlooked. Director Laura Attridge challenges that silence, placing queer love centre stage in works from Gluck to Handel, and inviting audiences to see the canon afresh.
At the Royal Opera's Linbury Theatre, Natalie Abrahami and Michael Levine bring a decade-long collaboration to Britten's haunting opera
Music students are speaking out about their experiences during their studies, many for the first time
Hurt by arts cuts, gender balance criticisms and a post-Brexit lack of musicians from Europe, this year's event is rife with insecurity. But, says Opera Now's editor Hattie Butterworth, there is also defiant innovation...
