Mozart

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Opera 

Mozart's comedy of romantic complications at Opera Holland Park shows the lasting damage of deceipt

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Opera 

Summer music starts with Opera Holland Park's four striking productions, beginning with Verdi's great La Traviata

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Opera 

Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and more ... Top singers head for London for a rollcall of outstanding productions

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Classical Music 

Beautified and more comfortable, two premier concert venues reopen with a new look and a celebratory month of music. We pick the best concerts:

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Opera 

Masterpieces by Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi bring to a close a spectacular year at Covent Garden

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Opera 

Fiona Shaw's theatrical take on Mozart's comic opera proposes a new outcome for a neglected wife

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Opera 

In an idyllic setting a short ride out of London, Garsington Opera presents Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss – and an opera on ice!

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Opera 

Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Mascagni top the bill at Opera Holland Park 2018

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Opera 

Opera's elder statesman, the baritone Willard White, on Mozart, Janáček, and 40 years at Covent Garden

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Opera 

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is English Touring Opera's elegant season opener

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Opera 

Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out

Tried and Tested

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Michael Longhurst's spirited, sell-out 2016 revival of Amadeus is still superlative

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Opera 

An overbearing mother, a birdcatcher in search of a mate and a pair of young lovers sing their way through trials and tribulations

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Opera 

Can't live with him, can't live without him ... or can they? The lascivious don meets his match in Donna Anna and Donna Elvira

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Classical Music 

Mozart, Verdi and Richard Strauss are in light-hearted mood at the country opera house that resembles a castle in the air

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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

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Opera 

A Verdi drama, a Mozart comedy and a backstage romp by Richard Strauss are joined by an Italian rarity in the Opera Holland Park programme for June – July 2018

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Opera 

Would you kill for the person you love? Would a true lover ask this of you? These are the dilemmas in Mozart's morally complex, musically delectable opera

Things To Do

Reach for your skinny black dress and pour an Aperol spritz: there is a distinctly Italian feel to the first productions of the season at the Royal Opera House

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Opera 

There's someone for everyone, but will the birdcatcher Papageno ever find his perfect match, Papagena?

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Opera 

A favourite production of a favourite opera puts Mozart centre stage at Garsington Opera

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Opera 

An elegant voyage through seduction and deception finds the humour as well as the immorality in Mozart's opera of many colours

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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 

A man and woman made for each other go badly wrong without a little magical intervention. But then there's the mother-in-law from hell...

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Summer is only a few beats away: enjoy open air music of the highest quality as Garsington Opera booking opens

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Operas, symphonies, concertos .... music poured out of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and it's all being celebrated in London

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Opera 

Director Richard Jones turns Mozart's opera on its head in a well-sung curtain-raiser to a new season at the Coliseum

Interview

Things to do 

With one of the hardest roles in the operatic repertoire ahead, US-born soprano Corinne Winters considers what happens when couples swap partners

Preview

Classical Music 

A fascinating insight into the mind of the prodigious composer through six of his piano concertos, explained and performed

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Classical Music 

The musicians of Aurora orchestra recreate the ambitious journeys of classical musicians who toured the whole of Europe with great compositions and performances

Tried and Tested

Opera 

Love and war meet on the beach in a Mozart opera with modern relevance

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Opera Holland Park continues to build on its growing reputation for both giving fresh interpretation to the classics and to unearthing operas that have been unfairly overlooked