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Opera
A water nymph falls for a mortal prince but can only live on land if she forsakes her beautiful voice in Dvorak's poignant opera
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Best of
A bumper year for opera in both city and country houses, concerts marking 250 years of Beethoven's legacy and a chance to catch the biggest names in music today
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Opera
English National Opera got back on its feet, the Proms went from strength to strength, and the Royal Opera House season grew and grew
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Netia Jones's outstanding staging of Philip Glass's filmic opera reveals a company on top form
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Opera
A family favourite for more than 30 years, Jonathan Miller's fast, funny and satirical production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta returns for an incredible 15th time...
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Offenbach's cheerful operetta turns sour in a well-sung but skewed production, with Emma Rice making her debut as opera director
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Choreographer Wayne McGregor directs the first of ENO's four operas on the Orpheus myth, spanning three centuries. Gluck's version stars Alice Coote, Sarah Tynan and Soraya Mafi
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Welcome new production of Harrison Birtwistle's instant classic, a complex retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story
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Opera
The classic fairy tale is told in song and dance in a traditional German opera rethought for a modern audience in a suitably outdoor setting
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Opera
The lustrous soprano Natalya Romaniw on playing 'I Spy' in Ukrainian, the great opera heroines, and corsets
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Opera
Seven new productions, four based on the Orpheus myth, and revivals of Bizet, Puccini and G&S
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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
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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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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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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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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Tried and Tested
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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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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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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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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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
