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

By Claudia Pritchard on 20/7/2017

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

Puccini's La Bohème, Royal Opera House

Puccini's La Bohème, Royal Opera House

Love blossoms in a freezing garret in Paris, but the city's gawdy night life and opportunities to stray are the couple's undoing, in Puccini's evergreen portrait of Bohemian artists

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WHEN
11 Sep 2017 – 10 Oct 2017, 11 performances, with two Saturday matinees at 2PM
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Royal Opera House

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Royal Opera House

A young woman abducted, a young man who falls in love with her portrait, a tyrannical mother and an artless birdcatcher fill Mozart's opera with romance, comedy and drama

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WHEN
12 Sep 2017 – 14 Oct 2017, 12 performances, with 12PM matinee, 16 Sept
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Verdi's Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Royal Opera House

Verdi's Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Royal Opera House

The highly acclaimed 2013 production of Verdi's vast Les Vêpres Siciliennes is back, and it's packed with spectacle, with the opulent Paris Opera as its backdrop

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WHEN
12 Oct 2017 – 04 Nov 2017, six performances, two intervals
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House

The ill-treated heroine of a melodramatic novel by Sir Walter Scott inspired the most dramatic opera of Donizetti's huge output, and this production is stunning

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WHEN
30 Oct 2017 – 27 Nov 2017, 7:15 PM – 10:30 PM
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Royal Opera House

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Royal Opera House

Two operas set in rural Italy, by Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo, illustrate the destructive power of love. But the music is gorgeous...

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WHEN
02 Dec 2017 – 13 Jan 2018, 10 performances, including three 12PM matinees
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
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