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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
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
Tried and Tested
Opera
Tremendous new production of Verdi's opera with appeal to both the Brief Encounter and Fleabag generations
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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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
Tried and Tested
Opera
Mozart's comedy of romantic complications at Opera Holland Park shows the lasting damage of deceipt
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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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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Opera
In the A-Z of opera, Zazà has the last word, with its perceptive insights into women's lives
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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
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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