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Opera
Meet the men and women who pass judgement on first night and the people behind some of the best London opera productions
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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
For a first glimpse of summer plan your nights at London's own country house opera, with much-loved operas by Tchaikovsky and Verdi, plus a comedy and a double-bill
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Opera
Two short operas, by Delius and Puccini, in which the love of ordinary people is tested to breaking point
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Opera
In Franz Lehár's comic opera a wealthy woman turns the tables on the men, but a country's future is at stake...
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Opera
An exciting young cast perform Verdi's tragic opera, set in Mantua and featuring the soprano Anna Patalong as the love-sick Gilda
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Opera
Tchaikovsky's opera of first love, loss and maturity, packed with stirring melodies and powerful choruses, is given a new production with a starry cast
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Opera
Carols and festive music with a surprise line-up of opera stars, and your chance to sing along with the best
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A crafty cigarette underpins an entire opera of its own, and a young woman's eyes are opened by love
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Opera
A country boy's obsession with a city woman poisons the happiness on offer at home in a passionate new production of Cilea's opera
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Opera
Singer Ashley Riches on making music with old friends, working out and trying his hand at writing
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Tremendous new production of Verdi's opera with appeal to both the Brief Encounter and Fleabag generations
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Meet Puccini's first great heroine, the convent girl who is seduced by a more lavish lifestyle, but at a terrible cost
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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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Essential
Opera
Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini and more sung by a host of top artists at London's own country house opera
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Opera
An opera within an opera which both celebrates and makes fun of the most eccentric and exuberant art form
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Opera
When a young woman refuses to accept the hand of any of her competing suitors, she is humiliated in public, but then falls disastrously in love
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Opera
Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Cilea ... and the comical story of a secret vice
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Dance
Students of the Royal Ballet School perform at Opera Holland Park this summer, following a successful display last year
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Mozart's comedy of romantic complications at Opera Holland Park shows the lasting damage of deceipt
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Rising soprano Lauren Fagan sings Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at Opera Holland Park, as part of London's own country house opera season
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Opera
Summer music starts with Opera Holland Park's four striking productions, beginning with Verdi's great La Traviata
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Opera
The soprano made opera-lovers sit up at Opera Holland Park last year, and she's back for a top Verdi role
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Opera
Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Mascagni top the bill at Opera Holland Park 2018
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Opera
Rub shoulders with the top artists of the day and of the future at this prestigious awards ceremony
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Opera
Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out
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Essential
Opera
Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions
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Classical Music
God bless us, every one! Opera Holland Park has a brand-new version of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. A happy ending guaranteed
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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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Tried and Tested
Opera
In the A-Z of opera, Zazà has the last word, with its perceptive insights into women's lives
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Tried and Tested
Opera
The turbulent river Volga has its own role to play in Janacek's powerful and moving opera
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Opera
Verdi's solemn musical act of remembrance is performed in aid of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire and in support of the survivors and others affected