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Opera 

A Verdi drama, a Mozart comedy and a backstage romp by Richard Strauss are joined by an Italian rarity in the Opera Holland Park programme for June – July 2018

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Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Mascagni top the bill at Opera Holland Park 2018

Tried and Tested

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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Reach for your skinny black dress and pour an Aperol spritz: there is a distinctly Italian feel to the first productions of the season at the Royal Opera House

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Opera 

There's someone for everyone, but will the birdcatcher Papageno ever find his perfect match, Papagena?

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Theatre 

Michael Longhurst's spirited, sell-out 2016 revival of the late Peter Shaffer's Amadeus returns to the National Theatre in 2018

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Opera 

Figaro loves Susanna. So does the Count. But he doesn't love the Countess. And Cherubino loves all women. Only Mozart can make it all come right

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Opera 

A favourite production of a favourite opera puts Mozart centre stage at Garsington Opera

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Opera 

An elegant voyage through seduction and deception finds the humour as well as the immorality in Mozart's opera of many colours

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Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Handel and Britten, plus a new work by Nico Muhly, and a Gilbert and Sullivan political satire

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Opera 

A man and woman made for each other go badly wrong without a little magical intervention. But then there's the mother-in-law from hell...

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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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Operas, symphonies, concertos .... music poured out of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and it's all being celebrated in London

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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Opera 

Youthful casting helps make perfect sense of an opera where nothing is as it seems

Interview

With one of the hardest roles in the operatic repertoire ahead, US-born soprano Corinne Winters considers what happens when couples swap partners

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Classical Music 

A fascinating insight into the mind of the prodigious composer through six of his piano concertos, explained and performed

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Classical Music 

The musicians of Aurora orchestra recreate the ambitious journeys of classical musicians who toured the whole of Europe with great compositions and performances

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Opera 

Love and war meet on the beach in a Mozart opera with modern relevance

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Opera Holland Park continues to build on its growing reputation for both giving fresh interpretation to the classics and to unearthing operas that have been unfairly overlooked

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English National Opera reveals new productions and commissions alongside plans to perform in smaller venues

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Classical Music 

Celebrating 75 years, Martha Argerich duets with Alberto Portugheis

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Classical Music 

Storm and stress from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

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Glyndebourne unveils its productions for 2017, including a new opera by Brett Dean, a neglected work by Cavalli, plus Mozart, Verdi and much more

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Bellini's masterpiece is joined by new productions of Cosi fan tutte, Der Rosenkavalier, and Die Meistersinger

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Classical Music 

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor makes his conducting debut with the Britten Sinfonia, and Elena Langer unveils a new work

Essential

The legendary pianist leads the ensemble in masterpieces by Mozart and Bartok

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Classical Music 

The virtuoso violinist showcases her range in a diverse, century-spanning recital

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Classical Music 

The leading pianist performs the final three piano sonatas by four of the genre's greatest exponents

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Classical Music 

Violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved opens his international Mozart series in the atmospheric East End venue

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Opera 

English Touring Opera close their Spring 2016 season with a new production of Mozart's classic

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Classical Music 

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists play some of Mozart's most emotionally affecting work