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Carols and seasonal favourites, Handel's Messiah and operas to raise the spirits add up to a bumper package this year
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Opera
Revival of a layered production of Beethoven's only opera, in which inaction is as visible as action itself
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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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Booking opens 16 Nov for two three-act ballets, a new family opera, plus Mozart, Handel and Puccini
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Opera
Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the Royal Opera House's first full season of ballet and opera since the start of the pandemic
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Return of the award-winning musical interpretation by Philip Venables of Sarah Kane's moving and darkly comic last play
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Kids
Birdsong, bongo drums and Brazilian beats: the Polka Theatre’s latest production is a multi-sensory experience for our tiniest theatregoers
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Bellini's masterpiece is joined by new productions of Cosi fan tutte, Der Rosenkavalier, and Die Meistersinger
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Opera
Verdi's Biblical breakthrough returns for the Royal Opera House's Summer season
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Opera
Massenet's sensitive adaptation of Goethe's great romantic novel returns to Covent Garden
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Opera
The WNO bring their bold new adaptation of David Jones' Great War epic to Covent Garden
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Opera
German director David Bösch makes his Covent Garden debut with Verdi's sensational mid-career masterpiece
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Booking is now open for the Royal Opera's winningly fresh Spring 2016. Here is our essential guide to the best shows
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Opera
Katie Mitchell directs a new production of Donizetti's great tragedy, starring two great bel canto sopranos
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Opera
Richard Jones brings a new production of Mussorgsky's masterpiece to the Royal Opera, starring Bryn Terfel
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Opera
A welcome return for Tim Albery's excellent production, with the masterful Christian Gerhaher playing Wolfram
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Opera
The Royal Opera premieres rising composer Mark Simpson's first opera, set in a gay club
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Opera
Gerald Barry's madcap operatic adaptation of the Oscar Wilde farce returns to London
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The new Royal Opera House Winter 2016 season is open for booking. Here is our guide to the best shows
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Opera
Puccini's triptych returns, with three exquisite micro-operas that demonstrate opera's range
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Opera
Richard Eyre's acclaimed 1994 production of Verdi's classic tearjerker returns with a starry cast, including Rolando Villazon
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Opera
Puccini's shocking melodrama returns to Covent Garden, with Angela Gheorghiu as the doomed heroine
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Opera
A second run for Kasper Holten's eccentric, inspired take on Tchaikovsky's greatest opera