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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
Behind the scenes at an opera born out of a crisis, and a fairy tale in music for all the family
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Opera
Verdi, Mozart, Rossini and Janacek welcome back live audiences for the summer festival – and the gardens should be lovelier than ever
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Opera
Glamorous, sexy and funny, a Glyndebourne classic takes a traditional love story to new places, thanks to a scintillating production by David McVicar
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Opera
Live music returns to Glyndebourne with a mini-festival of orchestral pieces and opera, an Offenbach comedy at its heart. And an important new fund helps rising artists
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Opera
Unmissable screening of Benjamin Britten's finest opera with an all-star cast, in Michael Grandage's matchless production
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Opera
Three Mozart operas raise the curtain on a new season from the Sussex house that is keeping its doors closed this summer and streaming classic productions instead
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Armchair travel to Verona or St Petersburg with the world's greatest singers, players and dancers. Free for one month, Marquee TV has seats in every house
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Opera
Beethoven, Handel and Poulenc operas are given new productions, plus revivals
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Opera
Handel's opera of magic and transformation is staged at the summer opera house for the first time, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the pit
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Opera
Poulenc's heart-breaking opera is staged for the first time ever at Glyndebourne, with Danielle de Niese as a young aristocratic who makes a courageous choice
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Mozart's magical opera of love, adventure and revenge is set in a grand hotel
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Opera
If the offer is too good to be true, it's a con. But when Faust is down on his luck, he falls for such a deal, in Berlioz's timeless opera.
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Opera
Stand by for the hottest tickets in opera: this season's Glyndebourne booking opens to the public on 3 March. Here are the shows to catch
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Opera
Tongue-in-cheek interpretation of Handel's heroic opera stars counter-tenor Tim Mead and Elizabeth DeShong
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Opera
How much do you give up for love? So much that you are no longer the beloved person? That is the dilemma for the water nymph in Dvorák's traditional tale
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Opera
The Cinderella fairy tale goes on a magical musical tour, with composer Jules Massenet and director Fiona Shaw
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Opera
A welcome return of the stylish and genuinely funny production of Rossini's sparkling comedy, where youthful love triumphs over jealous old age
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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
Like an Impressionist painting in music, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande tells the story of a forbidden love
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Opera
A Bollywood version of Handel's opera is an all-singing, all-dancing treat. Giulio Cesare makes Glyndebourne Festival Opera the home of hot rhythm
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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
Would you kill for the person you love? Would a true lover ask this of you? These are the dilemmas in Mozart's morally complex, musically delectable opera
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Opera
A Shakespeare adaptation and new commission opens at the Sussex country opera house
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Opera
With 20 performances of this classic opera, there has never been a better time to try the complete Glyndebourne experience
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Opera
Sharp suits and battle fatigues signal the 21st-century relevance of an ancient myth
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Puccini, Strauss and Handel top the bill in an attractive new season
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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
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Opera
A delectable and worldly-wise romp through sexual politics comes with a string of high-wire arias and witty ensemble numbers
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Opera
Melodious, richly textured and carried off with panache, this is a double-decker entertainment