Handel

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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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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 

The stars of the future light up the stage of the Royal Opera House in the third live concert, streamed to subscribers

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Opera 

It's not all solemnity at the first live streaming from the Royal Opera House: a cluster of songs about pets lightens the mood

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Opera 

Young singing stars and a glittering orchestra put a shine on a dull modern-dress staging of a rarely heard oratorio by Handel

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The Easter story told in song, a Handel rarity and Messiah, performed by top artists in churches and concert halls

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Opera 

Composer Gerald Barry on discovering books and music, and two forthcoming Royal Opera House productions

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Opera 

Beethoven, Handel and Poulenc operas are given new productions, plus revivals

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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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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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Dance 

The Russian superstar ballerina Svetlana Zakharova’s Modanse, now showing at Coliseum, is a double bill where high fashion meets dance and often supplants it

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Opera 

The 10 best performances that herald Christmas with compelling story-telling, grand choruses and spectacular solos sung by the finest artists

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Opera 

The Royal Opera House tenor talks to Stephen Pritchard about the Messiah season, perpetual youth and getting lost backstage at Covent Garden

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Opera 

Joyce DiDonato leads an all-star cast in Barrie Kosky's thrilling production of Handel's opera of ambition and revenge

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Opera 

Mozart, Handel, Britten, Donizetti – and a new opera for all the family

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The triumphant return of a Handel opera to Covent Garden, after 280 years, is a tremendous curtain-raiser for the London Handel Festival

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Opera 

Dvorak, Mozart, Rossini and more, plus a rarity directed by Fiona Shaw in a season that opens with a big Berlioz bang

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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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Tongue-in-cheek interpretation of Handel's heroic opera stars counter-tenor Tim Mead and Elizabeth DeShong

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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 

London's greatest composer was born in Germany, and given British citizenship. This month of concerts, walks and talks celebrates the enduring impact of George Frideric Handel on the capital

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Classical Music 

Where else would Schumann, Purcell and Handel rub shoulders with Joy Division and Arcade Fire? Musical barriers come down at this sparky winter fixture

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Opera 

A complex tale of tyranny, lust and betrayal is simply told through music in a stylish new production

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Dance 

Vivaldi and Handel provide the score to two contrasting new works brought to the Peacock Theatre by New English Ballet Theatre.

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Opera 

Handel and Purcell weave tales of love and duty into ethereal works staged in style by the country's premier touring company

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Classical Music 

A fortnight of world-class performances in small-scale venues, featuring music from Bach and Beethoven to Dixieland and Jerome Kern

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Let rip with the tango, be moved by Handel and Britten, then party at the tuneful Last Night

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Classical Music 

Composer of film, TV soundtracks and concert works talks to Claudia Pritchard about music in schools, a brand new work, and the cost to creativity of leaving the EU

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Classical Music 

Sacred music by JS Bach and Handel preside over Easter music programmes throughout London. Here are the best works performed by the best musicians

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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 

Deliciously sung but oddly dished-up, Handel's noble Rodelinda gets a slapstick treatment