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Essential
Opera
Modern masterpieces take their place alongside much-loved classics in stupendous screenings from London's and New York's top houses, with stars from all over the world.
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Classic production by David McVicar of Mozart's last opera returns to Covent Garden with a new cast
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Bryn Terfel makes a big-hearted role debut at Covent Garden in the comic opera by Donizetti in an otherwise disappointing production
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In the Know
Opera
The Italian director on discovering opera, slipping on banana skins and introducing children to the best
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Tried and Tested
Dance
The Royal Ballet joins the commemorations of Merce Cunningham’s centenary with the fascinating Cross Currents triple bill at the Linbury Theatre
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Best of
Traditional and innovative ballet alternates with Verdi, Beethoven and a new family opera
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Jonas Kaufmann stars in Beethoven's heroic opera, in the year that marks 250 years since the composer's birth
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Celebrating 25 years at Covent Garden, a classic production of Verdi's tragic opera returns
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Dance
Acosta Danza, the Cuban troupe created by the former Royal Ballet star dancer Carlos Acosta, takes up a 10-day residency at the Linbury Theatre
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Opera
Welcome return of Verdi's tragedy based on Shakespeare, with Gregory Kunde in the title role and Ermonela Jaho as Desdemona
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Opera
It's a helter-skelter ride in music for Lewis Carroll's Alice with Gerald Barry's breakneck opera based on adventures down the rabbit hole
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Tried and Tested
Dance
Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, an engrossing tale of love, greed and tragedy, is as fresh and cogent as ever, and a powerful opener to The Royal Ballet’s new season
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Joyce DiDonato leads an all-star cast in Barrie Kosky's thrilling production of Handel's opera of ambition and revenge
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Essential
Opera
Women conductors make waves, the classics are refreshed by our leading orchestras, and opera goes from strength to strength
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Life off-stage in Gerald Barry's comic opera is more dramatic than anything the principal character, himself a composer, can dream up
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In the Know
Opera
Composer Gerald Barry on discovering books and music, and two forthcoming Royal Opera House productions
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A powerful man who uses his status to seduce women looks as topical as ever, but he has met his match in Donna Anna
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Mozart, Handel, Britten, Donizetti – and a new opera for all the family
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Covent Garden's Christmas show is based on Shaun Tan's enchanting book about a boy who finds a curio on the beach
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Opera
A mouth-watering selection of ballet and opera for autumn at the Royal Opera House
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New production of Benjamin Britten's opera about the infatuation with a young boy of a dying man
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Dance
A new children’s dance work by Northern Ballet, Little Red Riding Hood, has its London premiere at the Linbury theatre in the autumn
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In the Know
Opera
Massenet's romantic story of the doomed love of a passionate poet for a virtuous woman returns to Covent Garden in a visually arresting production
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Opera
Donizetti's comedy returns to Covent Garden in a production packed with visual humour as well as musical hi-jinks, and with a great comedic guest star
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Opera
Mozart's comic opera returns to Covent Garden in the David McVicar production that has become a modern classic. The starry cast is led by Christian Gerhaher and Simon Keenlyside
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Power, overweening ambition and the inevitable fall are at the heart of Mussorgsky's epic opera, returning to Covent Garden with Bryn Terfel in the title role
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Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel on villains and buffoons, an impending marriage, and hanging up his Hans Sachs boots
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Packed with soaring music and with a devastating ending, Puccini's opera is a profoundly moving celebration of art, music and courageous love
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Tried and Tested
Opera
Tenor superstar Roberto Alagna returns to Covent Garden to lead an outstanding cast in the title role of an heroic opera
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Tried and Tested
Opera
The hottest ticket in opera: an all-star cast in the London debut of a tried and tested production of Britten's searing opera, directed by Deborah Warner
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In the Know
Opera
Two stories from South African history. An orphaned boy makes his own way in a tough world, and a First World War disaster is turned into one last dance
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Opera
The lavish and spectacular return of Gounod's operatic take on a classic story in which a man sells his soul to the devil