Verdi

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Opera 

A 21st-century take on Verdi's masterpiece shines the spotlight on the powerful and the powerless

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Opera 

Welcome return to Covent Garden of a moving Verdi grand opera staged in the grandest style

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Curtain up on the productions that will get the music world talking. Stand by for amazing music from Bizet to Britten, with lots of tuneful Verdi too

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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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Opera 

Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Cilea ... and the comical story of a secret vice

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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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Opera 

Oh what a beautiful opera house... Oklahoma! opens the season, plus a Verdi spectacle and Gounod's response to Shakespeare

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Opera 

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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Opera 

Summer music starts with Opera Holland Park's four striking productions, beginning with Verdi's great La Traviata

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Opera 

The soprano made opera-lovers sit up at Opera Holland Park last year, and she's back for a top Verdi role

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Opera 

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

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Opera 

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

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Opera 

Masterpieces by Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi bring to a close a spectacular year at Covent Garden

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Opera 

In an idyllic setting a short ride out of London, Garsington Opera presents Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss – and an opera on ice!

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Opera 

A long-awaited debut ends in disappointment, but the resourceful ENO chorus comes up trumps

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Opera 

The rumbustious Falstaff of Shakespeare's history plays becomes a comic – and tragic – character in his own right in Verdi's opera

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Opera 

Verdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Mascagni top the bill at Opera Holland Park 2018

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Opera 

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

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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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Opera 

It sounds so glamorous: a masked ball with the cream of society. But not all the lives behind the disguises are safe and anonymity may prove fatal

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The very best opera and ballet to book in this Winter Season at the Royal Opera House

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Opera 

Honest casting is the outstanding feature of the new production that opens English National Opera's new year

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Classical Music 

Mozart, Verdi and Richard Strauss are in light-hearted mood at the country opera house that resembles a castle in the air

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Passion, heroism and pure knockabout comedy are the stars of a year of Coliseum highlights, launching 28 September, and all the operas are sung in English

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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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Opera 

A Verdi drama, a Mozart comedy and a backstage romp by Richard Strauss are joined by an Italian rarity in the Opera Holland Park programme for June – July 2018

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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 

The opulent Paris Opera is re-created at Covent Garden in a spectacular production of a Verdi grand opera

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Opera 

Verdi's solemn musical act of remembrance is performed in aid of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire and in support of the survivors and others affected

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Opera 

The opera world turns out for Kaufmann's Otello, but it is his Iago who steals the show

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Opera 

With 20 performances of this classic opera, there has never been a better time to try the complete Glyndebourne experience