Announcement Opera japonica was launched six years ago. The site has now become antique, reflecting the way the internet was in the 1990s before RSS, blogging, podcasting and video-casting came onto the scene. So it's time to re-organize and re-design the site to include new features. An announcement will be posted here when the new site is ready. Thank you to all of you who have read this site in the past. We hope you will like the new one. Robert Murray as Lysander, Tove Dahlberg as Hermia, Grant Doyle as Demetrius and Katie van Kooten as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House Photo: Catherine Ashmore ¶ Final international news for 2005: Maria Nockin describes Ian Judge's Tosca and Robert Wilson's Parsifal both led by Kent Nagano at the Los Angeles Opera, together with Die Zauberflöte at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Aida at the Palm Beach Opera, and Roméo et Juliette at the Virginia Opera. Ruth Elleson reviews Neil Armfield’s Billy Budd with Simon Keenlyside and John Tomlinson at the English National Opera and Olivia Fuchs’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Covent Garden’s studio theatre. Frank Cadenhead covers the Mariinsky Theater performances at the Châtelet of Boris Godunov and Il viaggio a Reims. 15 January 2006 Site Entry and Contents Page Site established 1 January 2000, last updated on 15 January 2006 Designed, edited and published by Simon Holledge This website is copyright Opera japonica and contributors. All rights reserved. In particular, we reserve the right to take legal action should any materials from this website be used inappropriately or in breach of copyright by another publication. Pictures that appear on this website have been assigned to Opera japonica for editorial purposes by specified opera houses and photographers and prepared for publication by Opera japonica. With the exception of certain historical illustrations, they are not in the public domain. Any reproduction of our images deemed to be in breach of copyright will incur substantial Opera japonica usage charges in addition to photographers' fees. Opera japonica will also take appropriate measures against bandwidth theft. The name Opera japonica is also reserved.