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Look out something white or cream. Audiences at Garsington's first new production of the year are asked to match the opera's design....
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Monteverdi, Mozart, Dvorák, Britten and Roxanna Panufnik are this year's composers, with singers including Natalya Romaniw and Ed Lyon
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Passion, mystery and intrigue are enacted on stage, and the finest concerts feature world-class artists breaking new ground with much-loved works
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Opera
From outstanding singers and thrilling players to imaginative innovations and artists who do things differently. Here are our musical highlights of 2021
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Opera
High-class and sophisticated singing is let down by crude antics in Cal McCrystal's production of Rossini's comedy
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Opera
Sumptuously staged, brilliantly sung and played, a lavish new production of Richard Strauss's romantic opera defies all limitations
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Opera
Highly charged and ambitious revival of Tchaikovsky's most romantic opera introduces an exciting new soprano in Natalia Tanasii
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Symphony concerts that open up new horizons, operas that take audiences to another realm .... trust music to transport us out of daily life and make a world of difference
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Opera
From 10 October, live performance goes back indoors at the Sussex opera house, with a comic opera, a short-form Magic Flute, and Christmas concerts
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Opera
Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Handel and Richard Strauss operas are planned for the summer, with dates and casts to be announced. But keep room in your diary from May to August
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Opera
Newly announced broadcast of Fidelio takes Beethoven's only opera to a wider audience, with an all-star cast
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Opera
Six popular singers perform on the stage of Garsington Opera with an orchestra conducted by Douglas Boyd, as live music returns to country house opera
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Talks
Sit in on a discussion about music, art and literature as they combine in opera, with images from the great collections
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Opera
Spellbinding production of Benjamin Britten's opera is sung and staged to perfection
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Opera
On the eve of a royal wedding, a stranger tries to lighten the sombre mood of the princess bride, in Offenbach's tender opera, being given its first UK staging
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Opera
Lover, nobleman, scoundrel, liar, cheat... They all roll into one in the character of Don Giovanni, but morality will win the day in a new production by Michael Boyd
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Opera
Young lovers thwart the commercial ambitions of greedy parents when they attempt to put their daughter on the market, in Smetana's lively opera
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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
Book now for Smetana, Mozart, Offenbach and Britten, in a season of romance, drama and comedy
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Opera
The soprano on composer Barbara Strozzi, keeping fit on stage, and her fantasy opera roles
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Opera
Laughter, suspense and great story-telling from Smetana, Mozart, Offenbach and Britten in four new productions
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Opera
World premiere of a tale of love, jealousy and murder – with real skating!
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A poet and composer compete for supremacy, until they collaborate and produce an opera
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In an idyllic setting a short ride out of London, Garsington Opera presents Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss – and an opera on ice!
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The rumbustious Falstaff of Shakespeare's history plays becomes a comic – and tragic – character in his own right in Verdi's opera
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Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions
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An overbearing mother, a birdcatcher in search of a mate and a pair of young lovers sing their way through trials and tribulations
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Classical Music
Mozart, Verdi and Richard Strauss are in light-hearted mood at the country opera house that resembles a castle in the air
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Opera
Prosecco all round! Opera doesn't come bubblier than this
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A favourite production of a favourite opera puts Mozart centre stage at Garsington Opera
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Summer is only a few beats away: enjoy open air music of the highest quality as Garsington Opera booking opens
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Glorious Mozart and stirring Verdi are served with smoked salmon and a big helping of ingenuity when the evenings lighten and the opera scene heads for the great outdoors