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Dance
The State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake is a traditional production with luscious sets and costumes and variable dancing
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Opera
Inventiveness and enchantment meet unadulterated joy in Simon McBurney's uplifting production
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Dance
Tamara Rojo's remake of Petipa's Raymonda for English National Ballet has opened at the London Coliseum, revealing a company in exhilarating form
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Dance
Nutcracker, Little Prince and Snowman
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Dance
The Russian superstar ballerina Svetlana Zakharova’s Modanse, now showing at Coliseum, is a double bill where high fashion meets dance and often supplants it
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Dance
The second ballet company from Kazakhstan to hit London in as many months, the Abay Kazakh State Ballet Theatre, brought a double bill of classic crowd pleasers to the Coliseum
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Dance
Ivan Putrov’s Against the Stream Gala Night at the Coliseum, was a highly enjoyable show that transcended most of the limitations of the format
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Dance
Dancer and entrepreneur Ivan Putrov talks to Culture Whisper about his forthcoming project, Against the Stream, and explains why he doesn’t really call it ‘a gala’
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Opera
The women whose lives are threatened or taken are at the forefront of an opera based on crimes in the East End
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Opera
Money is no object when Hanna hits town, but affection for the dashing Danilo comes at a different price in Franz Lehár's scintillating comic opera
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Opera
A welcome return for Jonathan Miller's impeccable production of Puccini's tender opera, stylishly set in 1930s Paris
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Opera
Wolfgang Tillmans designs this outstanding operatic staging of a monumental lament for peace
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Musicals
Jazz, ragtime, blues and spirituals infuse this grand opera which features ever-popular melodies, including 'Summertime...'
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Best of
After a somnolent summer, the autumn sees London dance come alive with a myriad of unmissable events. Here are some of the highlights
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Opera
Fiona Shaw's theatrical take on Mozart's comic opera proposes a new outcome for a neglected wife
In the Know
Opera
A long-awaited debut ends in disappointment, but the resourceful ENO chorus comes up trumps
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Opera
Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe gets the One Man, Two Guvnors treatment as director Cal McCrystal takes on the entire House of Lords – and wins
Tried and Tested
Dance
Svetlana Zakharova’s supreme quality and technique rise above the mixed bag of works in her new triple bill, Amore
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Opera
A woman on the run, a man who cottons on ... Nico Muhly's new opera is a great psychological thriller staged with breathtaking style
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Opera
Deliciously sung but oddly dished-up, Handel's noble Rodelinda gets a slapstick treatment
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Opera
Honest casting is the outstanding feature of the new production that opens English National Opera's new year
Essential
Passion, heroism and pure knockabout comedy are the stars of a year of Coliseum highlights, launching 28 September, and all the operas are sung in English
In The Know
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
There is real menace and loss in this welcome revival of Jonathan Miller's suitably spivvy production
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Opera
As stunning visually as it is musically, ENO's new Lulu will be talked of for years to come
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Opera
All eyes are on English National Opera's new artistic director, Daniel Kramer. Can he save the beleaguered company, and will he do so by letting the music do the work?