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Essential
Opera
The most popular of Wagner's four Ring cycle operas is staged at Covent Garden, and screened across the capital
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Essential
Opera
Exciting new productions and some old stalwarts make up a varied Autumn of opera and dance at the Royal Opera House. Here are the highlights in chronological order
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Best of
After a somnolent summer, the autumn sees London dance come alive with a myriad of unmissable events. Here are some of the highlights
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Last Chance
Classical Music
Thrilling world premiere after 180 years of a tragic opera by Donizetti
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In the Know
Classical Music
The international opera star talks about singing in secret, her breakthrough as an understudy, and a world premiere, 180 years on
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Book Now
Opera
An immersive opera inspired by ancient cave paintings, and set in a dystopian future
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In the Know
Immersive
A leading composer of her generation, Tansy Davies ranks a healthy lifestyle with harmonic skills in her working life
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Opera
Maverick director Richard Jones salutes tradition in a spirited and moving reading of Puccini's heart-breaker
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Tried and Tested
Opera
George Benjamin's latest opera, Lessons in Love and Violence, has had its triumphant premiere at the Royal Opera House
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Tried and Tested
Opera
The scheming wife becomes a central character in her own right in Shostakovich's opera about frustration and infidelity
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In the Know
Opera
Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and more ... Top singers head for London for a rollcall of outstanding productions
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We love
Opera
The devil wears tartan in Shakespeare's murderous Macbeth bewitched by Verdi's music
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Essential
Opera
Masterpieces by Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi bring to a close a spectacular year at Covent Garden
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Last Chance
Opera
Janáček's last opera is rarely staged. Will this new production bring it to the fore?
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In the Know
Opera
Opera's elder statesman, the baritone Willard White, on Mozart, Janáček, and 40 years at Covent Garden
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In the Know
Opera
From Ed Sheeran to Hamilton, and from Monteverdi to Mozart and Tchaikovsky, singer and composer Roderick Williams draws no boundaries in music
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We love
Opera
Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out
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Dance
As they prepare to debut in a principal ballet role in The Winter’s Tale, Reece Clarke and Matthew Ball talk to Culture Whisper about the complex figure of Polixenes
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Book Now
Opera
Everything you need to know about booking the Royal Opera House spring 2018 season: from operas to ballets
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Preview
Dance
The Royal Ballet revives a masterpiece of modern ballet as Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon returns to the Royal Opera House stage
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Preview
Dance
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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Tried and Tested
Opera
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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Preview
Dance
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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We love
Opera
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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We love
Opera
Ridicule and revenge prove a fatal combination when an innocent girl is seduced by a reckless and powerful rake
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In the Know
Opera
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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Essential
Opera
Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions
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Opera
Swap winter blues for the sun with this heat-soaked double-bill. But beware: passions will run high in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
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Tried and Tested
Opera
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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Book Now
Opera
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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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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Thrill to Tchaikovsky, be amazed by Beethoven, or follow a woman with a secret at English National Opera
