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A new-look theatre welcomes audiences safely for Mozart, Verdi, Janacek and romantic Mascagni
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Classic productions with the world's finest singers, a new title streamed every 24 hours and joining a growing library of fine music
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Verdi, Mozart, Rossini and Janacek welcome back live audiences for the summer festival – and the gardens should be lovelier than ever
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The Royal Opera House has unveiled its autumn/winter programme of ballet and opera to be screened in cinemas worldwide
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The stars of the future light up the stage of the Royal Opera House in the third live concert, streamed to subscribers
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Welcome chance to revisit the big hit of 2019, a Verdi grand opera with the look of Brief Encounter
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Richard Eyre's evergreen production of Verdi's tragic opera celebrates 25 years in Covent Garden this year. This performance has an especially starry cast
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Beethoven, Verdi and Mozart, of course, but also minimalist Steve Reich and a new work about climate crisis, with many concerts perfect for young music-makers. Booking is open now...
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Verdi's opera about love, ambition and hypocrisy comes up to date at the Coliseum where a magnificent cast rescues a dire production
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Opera
The baritone on playing an interfering father, farming in Wales and life after Brexit
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Opera
English National Opera got back on its feet, the Proms went from strength to strength, and the Royal Opera House season grew and grew
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Opera
Celebrating 25 years at Covent Garden, a classic production of Verdi's tragic opera returns
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Heavy-weight production by Keith Warner of Verdi's tragedy based on Shakespeare, with Gregory Kunde in the title role and Ermonela Jaho as Desdemona
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For a first glimpse of summer plan your nights at London's own country house opera, with much-loved operas by Tchaikovsky and Verdi, plus a comedy and a double-bill
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An exciting young cast perform Verdi's tragic opera, set in Mantua and featuring the soprano Anna Patalong as the love-sick Gilda
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Traditional and innovative ballet alternates with Verdi, Beethoven and a new family opera
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Tremendous new production of Verdi's opera with appeal to both the Brief Encounter and Fleabag generations
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Verdi's unflinching opera shows a society intolerant of other lands and other religions
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Jonas Kaufmann returns to Covent Garden as a young woman's lover at war with her vengeful brother
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Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini and more sung by a host of top artists at London's own country house opera
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Gershwin, Verdi and an opera for all the family, all at the Theatre in the Woods
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The welcome return to Covent Garden of a moving Verdi grand opera staged in the grandest style, wonderfully sung
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A 21st-century take on Verdi's masterpiece shines the spotlight on the powerful and the powerless
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Bach, Verdi, Stravinsky ... and a Gilbert and Sullivan satire on the law
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The symphonies and concertos no music-lover should be without, played live at the Royal Albert Hall
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Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Cilea ... and the comical story of a secret vice
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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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Oh what a beautiful opera house... Oklahoma! opens the season, plus a Verdi spectacle and Gounod's response to Shakespeare
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Rising soprano Lauren Fagan sings Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at Opera Holland Park, as part of London's own country house opera season
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Summer music starts with Opera Holland Park's four striking productions, beginning with Verdi's great La Traviata