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The Welsh-born soprano returns to the title role of Tosca, but has a brand new work in her sights
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Britten's magical opera is beautifully sung if oddly staged – and Londoners get a second chance to hear it...
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Humour and heartbreak are side by side in this stylish revival of John Cox's classic production of Mozart's comic opera
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An action-packed production of Rameau's madcap comedy, with a charming performance in the title role
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Country house opera, memorable concerts, and the entire BBC Proms make up a soundtrack for the sun
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Britten, Verdi, Rameau, Mozart and a new lunar opera in a light-filled theatre for the summer
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In a new production of Richard Strauss's backstage opera, Natalya Romaniw sings the title role, with Young Woo Kim as her new love
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A new production of a rarely performed early Mozart opera is better sung than staged
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London's own opera festival opens at Opera Holland Park, Paddington Bear goes classical, and New Yorkers come to town
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The country house opera season begins, London goes baroque, and there's a last chance to catch English National Opera's big hit, Blue
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Opera
Out of town or just up the road, opera from May to August is a perfect fit with gardens, picnics and mingling
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Stirring opera with world-class artists, the powerful music of home and exile, and fun for children
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Opera
Operas to entertain and uplift, by Rossini, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Smetana
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Natalya Romaniw excels in the title role of Dvorak's painful opera. Now to catch her in Tosca...
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Opera
Look out something white or cream. Audiences at Garsington's first new production of the year are asked to match the opera's design....
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Opera
Monteverdi, Mozart, Dvorák, Britten and Roxanna Panufnik are this year's composers, with singers including Natalya Romaniw and Ed Lyon
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Passion, mystery and intrigue are enacted on stage, and the finest concerts feature world-class artists breaking new ground with much-loved works
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Opera
From outstanding singers and thrilling players to imaginative innovations and artists who do things differently. Here are our musical highlights of 2021
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Opera
High-class and sophisticated singing is let down by crude antics in Cal McCrystal's production of Rossini's comedy
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Sumptuously staged, brilliantly sung and played, a lavish new production of Richard Strauss's romantic opera defies all limitations
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Highly charged and ambitious revival of Tchaikovsky's most romantic opera introduces an exciting new soprano in Natalia Tanasii
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Symphony concerts that open up new horizons, operas that take audiences to another realm .... trust music to transport us out of daily life and make a world of difference
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From 10 October, live performance goes back indoors at the Sussex opera house, with a comic opera, a short-form Magic Flute, and Christmas concerts
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Opera
Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Handel and Richard Strauss operas are planned for the summer, with dates and casts to be announced. But keep room in your diary from May to August
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Newly announced broadcast of Fidelio takes Beethoven's only opera to a wider audience, with an all-star cast
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Opera
Six popular singers perform on the stage of Garsington Opera with an orchestra conducted by Douglas Boyd, as live music returns to country house opera
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Sit in on a discussion about music, art and literature as they combine in opera, with images from the great collections
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Opera
Spellbinding production of Benjamin Britten's opera is sung and staged to perfection
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On the eve of a royal wedding, a stranger tries to lighten the sombre mood of the princess bride, in Offenbach's tender opera, being given its first UK staging
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Lover, nobleman, scoundrel, liar, cheat... They all roll into one in the character of Don Giovanni, but morality will win the day in a new production by Michael Boyd
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Young lovers thwart the commercial ambitions of greedy parents when they attempt to put their daughter on the market, in Smetana's lively opera
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The lustrous soprano Natalya Romaniw on playing 'I Spy' in Ukrainian, the great opera heroines, and corsets