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Soprano Natalya Romaniw takes the title role in Janáček's opera, playing a neglected and bullied young wife
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A double bill starring Bryn Terfel swings from tragedy to comedy
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A hilarious new production of Donizetti's comedy is as musical as it is funny
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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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Life in the convent has never been so glitzy. Dress to the nines for Puccini's one-act opera, filmed on location
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A stylish and powerfully sung production of Puccini's most nail biting opera
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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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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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Impressive singing by the chorus and soloists cannot rescue a difficult opera given an overblown new production
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A new production of Verdi's opera based on Shakespeare's play defies racial stereotyping and puts marvellous singing to the fore
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An Italian rarity calls for great singing – and a production that makes sense of its sprawling plot
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Joseph Calleja, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside and Elizabeth Llewellyn in operas by Verdi, Wagner, Janáček and Ponchielli. And booking is open now...
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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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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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The Russian secret service officer poisoned in his adopted home of London is at the heart of a new opera inspired by his career, marriage and assassination
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The versatile baritone on lockdown gardening, Brexit fears, and breaking through with 'My Way'
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Kensington Church Street is the location for a hilarious production of Ravel's comic opera, set in a clockmaker's
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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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Thrills and chills abound in a ghostly tale in music filmed on location in haunted houses, where a family's dark past is revealed
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Puccini, Verdi and Rimsky-Korsakov operas are joined by a daring new commission as the Surrey country house sets its sights on a full summer season next year
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The first live opera to be staged since lockdown – and it's a new commission with a topical theme and a starry cast
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Fifteen events streamed from the Surrey house and from artists' homes: dance, song and an orchestral finale
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Booking is open for one of London's favourite summer opera seasons. This year, Ponchielli, Puccini and a world premiere, plus a tune-packed musical
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Verdi's unflinching opera shows a society intolerant of other lands and other religions
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Gershwin, Verdi and an opera for all the family, all at the Theatre in the Woods
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Oh what a beautiful opera house... Oklahoma! opens the season, plus a Verdi spectacle and Gounod's response to Shakespeare
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Rub shoulders with the top artists of the day and of the future at this prestigious awards ceremony
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Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions
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It sounds so glamorous: a masked ball with the cream of society. But not all the lives behind the disguises are safe and anonymity may prove fatal
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Shakespeare's tragedy of lovers from enemy families unfolds in song in Gounod's beautiful opera, staged in the countryside
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At the Theatre in the Woods, a suitably rural drama unfolds, and the audience is at the heart of the action