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Opera
New productions of Handel, Mozart and Poulenc, plus revivals of Donizetti, Stravinsky and Britten in a star-studded summer season
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Monteverdi, Mozart, Dvorák, Britten and Roxanna Panufnik are this year's composers, with singers including Natalya Romaniw and Ed Lyon
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Opera
A four-day festival of live instrumental music and song, featuring top artists and four centuries of composers, in a beautiful setting
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Opera
Go backstage at the Royal Opera House and meet the people that make opera happen, from the costume makers, stage hands and lighting designers to the singers and players
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Opera
The Royal Opera House reveals nine months of music, including five new productions, nine revivals, and discoveries in the Linbury Theatre
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Opera
In dance and song, a spectacular celebration originally created for the coronation of the Queen that knits the 1950s with the reign of Elizabeth I
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Opera
English National Opera got back on its feet, the Proms went from strength to strength, and the Royal Opera House season grew and grew
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Classical Music
Freddie Fox joins forces with the new Britten-Shostakovich Orchestra, making its London debut, with poetry and lines from Shakespeare
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Opera
Book now for Smetana, Mozart, Offenbach and Britten, in a season of romance, drama and comedy
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Opera
Wolfgang Tillmans designs this outstanding operatic staging of a monumental lament for peace
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Opera
Laughter, suspense and great story-telling from Smetana, Mozart, Offenbach and Britten in four new productions
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Opera
English National Opera impresses with a fresh take on Britten's operetta
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Let rip with the tango, be moved by Handel and Britten, then party at the tuneful Last Night
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Prepare to be spooked, like the governess of two unsettling children in Benjamin Britten's spine-chilling opera The Turn of the Screw
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Best of
The world's finest orchestras, conductors, singers and instrumental soloists head for London for the biggest music festival on the planet
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Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Handel and Britten, plus a new work by Nico Muhly, and a Gilbert and Sullivan political satire
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Opera
Love, ambition, envy, spite and reconciliation are shaken into one heady potion in a landmark opera production that only improves with the years
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Classical Music
Celebrations of Shakespeare 400 climax with a star-studded gala concert directed by Simon Callow featuring Dominic West and Anna Chancellor
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Classical Music
Voice, cello and piano are fused in this rare collaboration between three of Britain's pre-eminent musicians