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Opera
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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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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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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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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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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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
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Essential
The very best opera and ballet to book in this Winter Season at the Royal Opera House
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In the Know
Opera
It caused a sensation when it opened in 1905, and Richard Strauss's drama Salome can still shock today with its ruthless passions
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In the Know
Covent Garden raises the curtain on its new year with two appearances by Michael Fabiano in prime roles written by Puccini and Verdi
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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 the Royal Opera House
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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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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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Opera
There's someone for everyone, but will the birdcatcher Papageno ever find his perfect match, Papagena?
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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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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
Things to do
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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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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Opera
The Italy of Donizetti and Laurent Pelly is a carefree world of lovers, their muses and their ruses
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Opera
The music is ravishing, but Covent Garden's Manon Lescaut is uncompromisingly frank about the brutality of sexual exploitation
