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    Opera at Covent Garden 2018/19

    Opera at Covent Garden 2018/19: Royal Opera House must-sees

    Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and more ... Top singers head for London for a rollcall of outstanding productions

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  • We love

    Opera 

    Verdi's Macbeth review, Royal Opera House

    Verdi's Macbeth review ★★★★★, Royal Opera House

    25 Mar 18 – 10 Apr 18

    The devil wears tartan in Shakespeare's murderous Macbeth bewitched by Verdi's music

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  • Essential

    Opera 

    Summer at the Royal Opera House

    Summer at the Royal Opera House

    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 From The House of the Dead review

    Janáček's From The House of the Dead review ★★★★★, Royal Opera House

    07 Mar 18 – 24 Mar 18

    Janáček's last opera is rarely staged. Will this new production bring it to the fore?

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  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Willard White interview: 'I'm still learning new roles'

    Willard White interview: 'I'm still learning new roles'

    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 

    Roderick Williams: 'Opera is for everyone'

    Roderick Williams interview: 'Opera is for everyone – we all love stories'

    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 see the world's best female sopranos

    Five Opera Heroines: hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out

    Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out

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    Dance 

    Becoming Polixenes...

    Becoming Polixenes...

    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 

    Royal Opera House Spring Season Booking Guide

    Booking opens at the Royal Opera House

    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 Insights, Royal Opera House

    The Royal Ballet Insights, Royal Opera House

    06 Mar 18 – 10 Apr 18

    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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  • We love

    Tried and Tested

    Opera 

    See opera as never before

    Opera: Passion, Power and Politics ★★★★★

    30 Sep 17 – 25 Feb 18

    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, Obsidian Tear Triple Bill

    The Royal Ballet, Obsidian Tear Triple Bill

    14 Apr 18 – 11 May 18

    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 

    Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses review , Roundhouse

    Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses review ★★★★★, Roundhouse

    10 Jan 18 – 19 Jan 18

    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 

    Verdi's Rigoletto returns to Covent Garden in a lavish production

    Verdi's Rigoletto review ★★★★★, Royal Opera House

    14 Dec 17 – 16 Jan 18

    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 

    Superstar soprano Angela Gheorghiu reflects on love, tradition and healing

    Angela Gheorghiu interview: the superstar soprano on love, tradition and the healing power of music

    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 

    The most glittering opera nights at houses in and around London in 2018

    Best Opera 2018: divas, dramas and dates for your diary

    Puccini, Mozart and Verdi are in the front row of the year's outstanding opera productions

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  • Tried and Tested

    Opera 

    Joyce DiDonato is outstanding as Rossini's ruthless queen Semiramide

    Rossini's Semiramide review ★★★★★, Royal Opera House

    19 Nov 17 – 16 Dec 17

    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 

    La Tragédie de Carmen review, Royal Opera at Wilton's Music Hall

    La Tragédie de Carmen review ★★★★★, Wilton's Music Hall

    03 Nov 17 – 14 Nov 17

    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 

    Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor review , Royal Opera House

    Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor review ★★★★★, Royal Opera House

    30 Oct 17 – 27 Nov 17

    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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    Best Classical and Opera nights in November

    Best Classical and Opera nights in November

    Thrill to Tchaikovsky, be amazed by Beethoven, or follow a woman with a secret at English National Opera

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  • Essential

     

    Royal Opera House Winter Season booking guide

    Royal Opera House Winter Season booking guide

    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 

    Covent Garden revives its powerful production of Strauss's Salome

    Richard Strauss's Salome, Royal Opera House

    08 Jan 18 – 30 Jan 18

    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 the US singer in prime roles written by Puccini and Verdi

    Michael Fabiano interview: the Royal Opera House's tenor on a mission

    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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    The five top must-see operas at Covent Garden this autumn

    The five top must-see operas at Covent Garden this autumn

    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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  • Book Now

    Opera 

    The Royal Opera House heads for the East End with a new look at an old favourite

    Bizet's La Tragédie de Carmen, Wilton's Music Hall

    03 Nov 17 – 14 Nov 17

    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 

    Vast and imposing historical tale told in song and in dance

    Verdi's Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Royal Opera House

    12 Oct 17 – 04 Nov 17

    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 

    Mysticism and romance collide in an opera about hope and loyalty

    Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Royal Opera House

    12 Sep 17 – 14 Oct 17

    There's someone for everyone, but will the birdcatcher Papageno ever find his perfect match, Papagena?

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  • Interview

     

    The London-based rising star would drop everything if the dance show came calling...

    Nicky Spence interview: the go-to tenor on opera, gardening and 'Strictly'

    The London-based rising star would drop everything if the dance show came calling...

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  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Luis Buñuel's film gets an operative makeover on a massive scale

    The Exterminating Angel review ★★★★★, Royal Opera House

    24 Apr 17 – 08 May 17

    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

     

    Iestyn Davies interview: king of the counter-tenors

    Iestyn Davies interview: king of the counter-tenors

    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 

    Landmark production of Puccini's tragic opera boasts a matchless cast

    Madama Butterfly ★★★★★ review, Royal Opera House

    23 Mar 17 – 25 Apr 17

    Star soprano Ermonela Jaho may just be the finest Butterfly you ever see

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  • Tried and Tested

    Opera 

    Germany's got talent in Wagner's joyful opera

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ★★★★★ review, Royal Opera House

    11 Mar 17 – 31 Mar 17

    Kasper Holten bows out of Covent Garden in style with the ultimate talent show

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