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Things To Do
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 Covent Garden
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Essential
Opera
Swop winter blues for the sun with this heat-soaked double-bill. But beware: passions will run high
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Book Now
Opera
Carmen loves the men who don't love her. But when one of them weakens, disaster ensues for all involved
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Tried and Tested
Opera
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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In the Know
Opera
The opulent Paris Opera is re-created at Covent Garden in a spectacular production of a Verdi grand opera
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We love
Opera
There's someone for everyone, but will the birdcatcher Papageno ever find his perfect match, Papagena?
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Essential
Opera
Her tiny hand is frozen ...Rodolfo warms Mimì with a kiss in this most romantic and rumbustious of Italian operas
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Essential
Visual Arts
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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Tried and Tested
Opera
The opera world turns out for Kaufmann's Otello, but it is his Iago who steals the show
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Interview
The London-based rising star would drop everything if the dance show came calling...
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In the Know
Opera
A cultivated, glamorous in-crowd gathers in an elegant setting, but the evening takes a terrible turn, in Thomas Ades's new opera
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Interview
The singing star of Farinelli and the King talks about working with Mark Rylance, a new opera based on a surreal film, recreating musical history, and marriage
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We love
Opera
Star soprano Ermonela Jaho may just be the finest Butterfly you ever see
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Kasper Holten bows out of Covent Garden in style with the ultimate talent show
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Interview
Meet the opera singer who defies the stereotype with the simple life off-stage – but on stage gets through tenors five at a time
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We love
Opera
Human vanity, creativity and passion collide in an opera that has become an instant modern classic
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Tried and Tested
Opera
There is dazzling singing from the first of three new casts in a timeless production of Verdi's tragic opera
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Interview
The star of the Royal Opera House's highly-acclaimed new opera Written on Skin talks to Claudia Pritchard about finding – and mislaying – his voice
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We love
Opera
The Italy of Donizetti and Laurent Pelly is a carefree world of lovers, their muses and their ruses
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Book Now
Opera
The music is ravishing, but Covent Garden's Manon Lescaut is uncompromisingly frank about the brutality of sexual exploitation
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A Royal Opera directorial debut finds parallels between the classical world and a modern dictatorship
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Things To Do
The festive season is upon us, and we know pantomimes aren't for everyone. So from opera and carols to midnight mass, here's how to celebrate in song this winter
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Things To Do
Immerse yourself in the Nutcracker, lace up your Red Shoes and lull yourself into the Beauty of ballet this winter in London
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A new Royal Opera House dream team creates an evening of surreal comedy and satire
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Interview
As a child he begged his parents to play an opera video. Now Gerard Jones is directing a production for the Royal Opera House
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Youthful casting helps make perfect sense of an opera where nothing is as it seems
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A bright star at Covent Garden eclipses the shortcomings of a new production – and the ROH has opera director
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Preview
Opera
A bored princess, a neglectful older husband, a handsome young soldier ... what can possibly go right? Strauss's romantic opera can, for a start
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Tried and Tested
Opera
A highly acclaimed new production of Verdi's tragic opera returns with a new cast. This was our review of the original production in July
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Preview
Opera
An extravagant operatic rarity floods the stage with glamour
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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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Must See
From traditional classics at the Royal Opera House to innovative new commissions, the opera and classical concerts coming up this season in London
