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Money is no object when Hanna hits town, but affection for the dashing Danilo comes at a different price in Franz Lehár's scintillating comic opera

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Opera 

A mesmerising revival: ENO's award-winning production of Philip Glass's opera set in Ancient Egypt, with a career-defining central performance

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A welcome return for Jonathan Miller's impeccable production of Puccini's tender opera, stylishly set in 1930s Paris

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Opera 

Wolfgang Tillmans designs this outstanding operatic staging of a monumental lament for peace

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Musicals 

Jazz, ragtime, blues and spirituals infuse this grand opera which features ever-popular melodies, including 'Summertime...'

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Opera 

Richard Strauss's turbulent opera opens ENO's woman-focused season 2018/19 with a warning to societies in meltdown

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Opera 

English National Opera impresses with a fresh take on Britten's operetta

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Classical Music 

Brexit, language classes, and hearing in colour are all on the mind of the composer Roxanna Panufnik

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Prepare to be spooked, like the governess of two unsettling children in Benjamin Britten's spine-chilling opera The Turn of the Screw

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

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Opera 

A long-awaited debut ends in disappointment, but the resourceful ENO chorus comes up trumps

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Opera 

Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe gets the One Man, Two Guvnors treatment as director Cal McCrystal takes on the entire House of Lords – and wins

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Opera 

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

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Opera 

Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions

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Opera 

A woman on the run, a man who cottons on ... Nico Muhly's new opera is a great psychological thriller staged with breathtaking style

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Opera 

Deliciously sung but oddly dished-up, Handel's noble Rodelinda gets a slapstick treatment

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Thrill to Tchaikovsky, be amazed by Beethoven, or follow a woman with a secret at English National Opera

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Opera 

Honest casting is the outstanding feature of the new production that opens English National Opera's new year

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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 jealous old guardian with plans to marry his attractive young ward who has a handsome young suitor... What can possibly go wrong?

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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 tyrannical leader who shuns expertise and the newspapers. Shakespeare reads the future, yet again...

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Kids 

Film director Mike Leigh's take on a Victorian favourite that pokes irreverent fun at British society is a treat for half-term, and beyond

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Opera 

There is real menace and loss in this welcome revival of Jonathan Miller's suitably spivvy production

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Opera 

As stunning visually as it is musically, ENO's new Lulu will be talked of for years to come

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Opera 

Puccini's edge-of-the-seat drama of love, envy and deception receives a brilliant revival

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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

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From traditional classics at the Royal Opera House to innovative new commissions, the opera and classical concerts coming up this season in London

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Opera 

When three princes woo the same powerful woman, it looks like a straightforward competition, but the arrival of a fourth changes everything

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Opera 

All eyes are on English National Opera's new artistic director, Daniel Kramer. Can he save the beleaguered company, and will he do so by letting the music do the work?

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Opera 

Puccini's story of love betrayed is vividly revived in a now classic production

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English National Opera reveals new productions and commissions alongside plans to perform in smaller venues