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Essential
Opera
Women conductors make waves, the classics are refreshed by our leading orchestras, and opera goes from strength to strength
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A welcome return for Jonathan Miller's impeccable production of Puccini's tender opera, stylishly set in 1930s Paris
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Wolfgang Tillmans designs this outstanding operatic staging of a monumental lament for peace
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Opera
Mozart's comic and heroic opera sparkles with the enchantment it promises in a welcome spring revival
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Opera
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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Tried and Tested
Musicals
Jazz, ragtime, blues and spirituals infuse this grand opera which features ever-popular melodies, including 'Summertime...'
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Tried and Tested
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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Essential
Best of
Curtain up on the productions that will get the music world talking. Stand by for amazing music from Bizet to Britten, with lots of tuneful Verdi too
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Tried and Tested
Opera
English National Opera impresses with a fresh take on Britten's operetta
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In the Know
Classical Music
Brexit, language classes, and hearing in colour are all on the mind of the composer Roxanna Panufnik
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Opera
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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Opera
The women whose lives are threatened or taken are at the forefront of an opera based on crimes in the East End
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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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In the Know
Opera
A long-awaited debut ends in disappointment, but the resourceful ENO chorus comes up trumps
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We love
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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Essential
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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Tried and Tested
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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Tried and Tested
Opera
Honest casting is the outstanding feature of the new production that opens English National Opera's new year
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Essential
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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We love
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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In The Know
Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Handel and Britten, plus a new work by Nico Muhly, and a Gilbert and Sullivan political satire
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A tyrannical leader who shuns expertise and the newspapers. Shakespeare reads the future, yet again...
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Tried and Tested
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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We love
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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Tried and Tested
Opera
Puccini's edge-of-the-seat drama of love, envy and deception receives a brilliant revival
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Tried and Tested
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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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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Opera
When three princes woo the same powerful woman, it looks like a straightforward competition, but the arrival of a fourth changes everything