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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
A monumental lament for the losses in war is given an operatic staging
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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
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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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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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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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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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
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Tried and Tested
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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Preview
Opera
Puccini's story of love betrayed is vividly revived in a now classic production
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In The Know
English National Opera reveals new productions and commissions alongside plans to perform in smaller venues
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Opera
Edward Gardner conducts a new production of Wagner's masterpiece, with set designs by Anish Kapoor
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Opera
A welcome return for David Alden's classic production of Janacek's shockingly powerful human drama