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We Culture Whisper editors get to enjoy the best of London life in normal times. Here’s where we’re most looking forward to going after lockdown
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As the capital reawakens, we round up the brand new plays, exhibitions, concerts, dance shows and festivals to book now (or soon!) and enjoy later
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Opera
A mouth-watering selection of ballet and opera for autumn at the Royal Opera House
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Opera
The larger-than-life character of Luciano Pavarotti came to define and transcend his operatic world. Director Ron Howard is bringing his story to the screen
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Karlheinz Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) is a must for devotees of either electronic avant-garde or mammoth opera
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Opera
The Little Orchestra is celebrating classic music and bringing back 'the relaxed, social context that used to belong to music historically'. Next up, Handel's Messiah
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The China National Peking Opera Company returns to Sadler's Wells with two new productions
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Essential
Opera
Exciting new productions and some old stalwarts make up a varied Autumn of opera and dance at the Royal Opera House. Here are the highlights in chronological order
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Opera
From Ed Sheeran to Hamilton, and from Monteverdi to Mozart and Tchaikovsky, singer and composer Roderick Williams draws no boundaries in music
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Opera
Everything you need to know about booking the Royal Opera House spring 2018 season: from operas to ballets
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Tried and Tested
Opera
400 years, 7 operas, and a display spanning geography, history and art: the V&A and Royal Opera House collaborate to stage the first blockbuster exhibition on opera
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We love
Opera
In a triumphant Royal Opera production of Monteverdi's setting of the Odyssey, an exhausted traveller's marriage is put to the test
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Classical Music
Coraline transformed: follow the blue-haired heroine from book to film to opera-house this March in a magical musical adaptation at the Barbican Theatre
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Essential
Classical Music
It starts with nursery rhymes, says the soprano in demand all over the world after picking up award after award. Happily, there are London area performances in store...
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Opera
It caused a sensation when it opened in 1905, and Richard Strauss's drama Salome can still shock today with its ruthless passions
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Classical Music
Seventy talented musicians flood to London from abroad – the Hong Kong Music Series promises a jam-packed musical itinerary this month
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Opera
London opera houses and singers take on the world at the Oscars of opera
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In The Know
A short hop from Waterloo is the new home of an established opera company with an ambitious season in its sights
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Features
Everything you need to know about the Royal Opera House Spring 2017 season operas and ballets
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Things To Do
The festive season is upon us, and we know pantomimes aren't for everyone. So from opera and carols to midnight mass, here's how to celebrate in song this winter
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In The Know
Operas, symphonies, concertos .... music poured out of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and it's all being celebrated in London
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A bright star at Covent Garden eclipses the shortcomings of a new production – and the ROH has opera director
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Must See
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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Tried and Tested
Opera
Addicted to gambling and to love, Pushkin's tragic antihero risks all, in a brilliantly staged production of Tchaikovsky's opera
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Tried and Tested
Opera
It's sparkling music rather than magic with mice that does the trick in Rossini's Cinderella opera
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Classical Music
The Great Fire of London is remembered in an opera inspired by the small blaze in September 1666 that went on to change the face of the capital for ever
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Garsington Opera opens with a thrilling and full-blooded production of Eugene Onegin that gets to the heart of its conflicting and conflicted characters
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In The Know
London's only international opera recital series unveils the hottest names in singing from around the world
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Glyndebourne unveils its productions for 2017, including a new opera by Brett Dean, a neglected work by Cavalli, plus Mozart, Verdi and much more
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Bellini's novel take on the famous Romeo and Juliet story: a highly accessible and enjoyable opera for those in the know
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Essential
Opera
Figaro, the resourceful barber and fixer, makes things go his way in Rossini's sparkling comedy
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Essential
Opera
Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart's most dazzling opera returns in the guise of a lavish 1970s house party at Glyndebourne Opera Festival
