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Tried and Tested
Opera
A stylish new production of Handel's pastoral opera is enhanced by spirited choreography and singing
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An exciting new production of Carmen, an evening with author Kate Atkinson, and musical fun for the family
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It's a great year for beguiling women at the Sussex country opera house, with Carmen and Cleopatra among those weaving their seductive spells
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Our top 10 artists and events in a challenging year for music and musicians
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Classical Music
All the great tunes and choruses, but funkier than you can imagine: Handel's ever-popular work in a jazzy new version gets its London debut
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Opera
Handel's Messiah dominates the month's great music, but there is also Bach, passionate Italian opera and a German fairy tale
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Jennifer France shines as a daughter lost to her father's dangerous pledge in a new staging of Handel's oratorio
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Healing music for a troubled world, a new symphony by Joan Armatrading and an opera film night
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Opera
Top-flight soloists and instrumentalists join community singers and players in one of the most joyous productions of the year
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Opera
Puccini, Rossini and Handel operas, plus a marital double-bill and Gilbert and Sullivan's Tower of London tragicomedy
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Opera
Booking opens on Wed 2 Aug for operas by Wagner, Verdi, Donizetti, Handel and more
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A new production by director Adele Thomas of Handel's fable of gods and mortals
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Opera
In the Linbury Theatre, rising Jette Parker Artists bring Handel into the modern world
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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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Classical Music
A highlight of its Christmas programme, the Royal Albert Hall stages a traditional performance of Handel's Messiah, with an exciting array of names performing
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Opera
The Christmas story is told in grand choruses and virtuosic solos, sung by the finest artists and with thrilling instrumental playing
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Opera
A glamorous and witty new production of Handel's opera is a great all-round theatrical experience
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Immersive
A highly dramatic new approach to this much-loved work has dance, movement and lighting to bring the Christmas story to life
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Handel's opera of magic and transformation is staged with showbiz dazzle-dazzle
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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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London premieres, much-loved classics and a host of big-name performers in the world's largest music festival. Booking opens 9AM, Sat 21 May
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Opera
Puccini, Handel, Poulenc, Mozart, Donizetti and a Cornish-set opera by a 20th-century pioneering British woman composer
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Tried and Tested
Opera
An all-star cast and spectacular debut rescue a warped reading of Handel's work of faith
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Opera
Messiah makes an impact however it is sung. But what's so special about an oratorio written in a rush and using recycled material? Claudia Pritchard explains
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Booking opens 16 Nov for two three-act ballets, a new family opera, plus Mozart, Handel and Puccini
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Opera
Handel's evergreen oratorio tells the Easter story in song, interpreted by eight soloists, chorus and orchestra
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Opera
The soprano on her Brixton childhood, 'silent' music and renewed energy as live music resumes
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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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The Easter story told in song, JS Bach and Handel's Messiah, performed by top artists and streamed from London churches and concert halls
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Celebrate the musical giants who transformed British music-making with 10 of our favourite musical influencers
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Long-awaited return to Covent Garden of Handel's fine opera, streamed with an all-star cast
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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
