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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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Essential
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
An opera inspired by a classic novel joins the repertoire at London's own country house opera
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Tried and Tested
Opera
After a massive hit, composer Pietro Mascagni set about his difficult second opera. A new production shows how he fared...
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Enchanting production of Janáček's opera with soprano Jennifer France in the title role outwitting most creatures and humans
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Lauren Fagan returns to the role of Verdi's Violetta in a revival of Rodula Gaitanou's moving production, given added poignancy by the times we live in
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Mozart's comic opera opens a new summer season at the capital's own country house opera
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Opera
The versatile baritone on lockdown gardening, Brexit fears, and breaking through with 'My Way'
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Opera
The soprano on her Brixton childhood, 'silent' music and renewed energy as live music resumes
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Opera
A new-look theatre welcomes audiences safely for Mozart, Verdi, Janacek and romantic Mascagni
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Opera
Monthly music and drama sessions for pre-school children that are fun for all the family
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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
Kathy Lette, Petroc Trelawny and friends welcome music-lovers to an online Christmas party with seasonal favourites and opera highlights
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Opera
The soprano who has reached new heights talks about singing during lockdown, a commemorative performance, and improvising on stage
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Opera
The west London company performs live to audiences again, with programmes for all tastes performed by the country's finest singers and players
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Opera
Welcome chance to revisit the big hit of 2019, a Verdi grand opera with the look of Brief Encounter
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Opera
Join London's own country house opera company from the comfort of home and learn all about the skills it takes to put on an opera, with family events all day
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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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Essential
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
