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Thrilling world premiere after 180 years of a tragic opera by Donizetti
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The scheming wife becomes a central character in her own right in Shostakovich's opera about frustration and infidelity
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Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and more ... Top singers head for London for a rollcall of outstanding productions
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Masterpieces by Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi bring to a close a spectacular year at Covent Garden
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Everything you need to know about booking the Royal Opera House spring 2018 season: from operas to ballets
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Go behind the scenes with the Royal Ballet’s Insights programme for an illuminating look at what goes into making memorable performances
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400 years, 7 operas, and a display spanning geography, history and art: the V&A and Royal Opera House collaborate to stage the first blockbuster exhibition on opera
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The Royal Ballet’s last mixed bill of the current season consists of three strongly contrasting works with something for everyone
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In a triumphant Royal Opera production of Monteverdi's setting of the Odyssey, an exhausted traveller's marriage is put to the test
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Ridicule and revenge prove a fatal combination when an innocent girl is seduced by a reckless and powerful rake
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Angela Gheorghiu, queen of the great 19th-century Italian repertoire with its passionate arias and often heartbreaking tales, talks to Claudia Pritchard
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Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions
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A queen who murders one man, is in love with another, and in an affair with a third, is heading for disaster on all fronts
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Flirtation races towards tragedy in an 80-minute version of Bizet's Carmen that gets to the heart of its colourful characters
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A highly theatrical treatment of a searing opera pulls no punches in Katie Mitchell's hard-hitting production, with eight performances in store
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