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Daphne, review: Ancient Greece meets Nazi Germany – with surprisingly successful results
Scottish Opera's highly accomplished concert staging magnifies the problematic provenance of Richard Strauss's work
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Arts Council backtracks on plan to move English National Opera out of London and cut its funding
'Ill-thought-out and impractical scheme’ was condemned by the classical music community for tearing at ‘the flesh of our culture’
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Semele, Glyndebourne, review: Handel’s English masterpiece gets a radical makeover
Joélle Harvey is dazzling in this thundering love story, but the production lacks cohesion, while slicing the dinner interval feels strange
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Itch, Holland Park Opera, review: Simon Mayo's novel has inspired a zippy, clever new opera for all
Composer Jonathan Dove has created a motoric score from the drama about a schoolboy who loves the periodic table of elements
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What is true happiness? Listen to this exquisite new opera
George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s masterpiece, receiving its premiere at Aix Festival, is a beautifully written triumph
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The Threepenny Opera: growing pains at Aix for this wild and wacky take on Kurt Weill
Launching the Aix Festival, this staging of Brecht’s famed musical satire copes well with the ever-pungent score but doesn’t quite take off
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Don Carlo: the gore and grandeur of Verdi’s epic, brought thrillingly to life
Taking us inside the court of Philip II, Lise Davidsen is stunning as Elizabeth of Valois – though the marathon evening slows at times
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The Bartered Bride: Prague’s greatest showman – given a fitting circus twist
Garsington’s production of Bedrich Smetana’s classic comedy is fine way to whet the appetite ahead of his bicentenary in 2024
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Summer 2023’s hot 100: your guide to the essential films, gigs, exhibitions and theatre
From Pulp and the Proms to Barbie and The Bear, our critics mark your cultural calendar for July and August
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Philip Glass promises Infinity – so why does this new show feel so narrow?
The composer’s ‘mixed media’ exploration of memory is an odd mix of slippery storytelling and overheated, didactic music
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Glyndebourne’s enchanting new star Liv Redpath on why opera isn’t just for the rich
The 31-year-old American soprano, soon to make her UK debut at Glyndebourne, on discipline, class diversity and playing mercurial women
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Woman at Point Zero: a committed chronicle of misogyny, but it’s no match for the book
El Saadawi’s powerful novel about female oppression has been recast as a two-hander in Bushra El Turk's opera – with mixed results
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Candide: Welsh National Opera don’t let the Arts Council’s idiocy dent their optimism
Even faced with a 35 per cent funding cut, WNO give Bernstein's tricky take on Voltaire a valiant, handsome staging
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Werther: Jonas Kaufmann sings beautifully – but is upstaged by his beloved Charlotte
The celebrity tenor returns but it is Aigul Akhmetshina who scores the major triumph in this staging of Massenet's opera
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Ariadne auf Naxos, review: Young Woo Kim triumphs in an impossible role
The young tenor is a revelation in this sumptuous staging of Richard Strauss's opera at Garsington
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This Werther fails to conjure the magic of Massenet
Some strenuous singing and moments of lethargy marred this production at Grange Park Opera
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Hansel and Gretel: an artful tasting plate – but you really want a great big black forest gateau
Opera Holland Park's new Humperdinck staging charts a safe, if slightly erratic, middle course between horror and fairy-tale
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Tosca: Puccini’s drama is grippingly moved to the era of the Third Reich
Rome in 1800 becomes the same city under the Nazis, in a bold new staging from Grange Park Opera that also gets all the basics right
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Dialogues des Carmélites: Glyndebourne delivers a wrenchingly powerful staging of a great opera
Francis Poulenc’s tale of the nuns of Compiègne caught up in the terror of the French Revolution is magnificently staged and performed
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Giant, Aldeburgh Festival: this sombre, haunting premiere measures up to its mighty subject
Sarah Angliss retells the tragic story of the ‘Irish Giant’, Charles Byrne, whose height brought misery – before, and after, his death
