Royal Opera House
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Renée Fleming leads a fine cast including Alice Coote, Sophie Bevan and Matthew Rose in a production whose romantic comedy plays out against a distractingly over-the-top backdrop
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Multiverse, McGregor’s newest work for the Royal Ballet, is set to Steve Reich’s most apocalyptic score but ends on a note of lyrical, limpid beauty
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With its gore, sexual menace and overtones of Beckett, Gerard Jones’s production will divide audiences but succeeds superbly in showcasing its young singers
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Fine performances lift this Royal Ballet revival of MacMillan’s strange ballet about the woman who claimed to be a lost Romanov
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It’s hard to know why the Royal Ballet have revived Kenneth MacMillan’s flawed study of madness, but Osipova’s magnificent performance makes it worthwhile
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Roderick Williams is a winning Billy Budd in Opera North’s top-notch production. At Covent Garden, the loss of a nose is no laughing matter
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Barrie Kosky’s take on Shostakovich’s satire is imaginative and brilliant but it sacrifices the opera’s deeper meaning
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With its story of rapes, murder, fine wines and fancy dress, Don Giovanni offers plenty for directors to get their teeth into. The results might not be coherent and they might well be controversial, but they are almost always colourful. Ahead of Richard Jones’s new staging for English National Opera we look at key productions of the last decade.
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There is an excess of everything, and a lot more besides, in Royal Opera’s new Così fan tutte
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Artifice is the key to Jan Philipp Gloger’s stagey production of Mozart’s comic opera, lucidly realised by conductor Semyon Bychkov and a committed team
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Misogynistic? Dramatically unconvincing? Not at all. The key to understanding the universal truths of Mozart’s opera lie in these very contrivances, writes the director of a new Covent Garden production
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Divine dancing, evocative staging and a sympathetic adaptation make perfect sense of Shakespeare’s difficult play
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Oscar-winning actor among 214 signatories of an open letter demanding cancellation of oil firm’s new five-year arts sponsorship deal
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Strutting matadors, fiery senoritas and outstanding soloists show the company at its virtuoso best
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Topics
- Classical music
- Opera
- Dance
- Ballet
- Bolshoi
- English National Opera (ENO)
- George Benjamin
- Royal Ballet
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Energy industry
- Richard Strauss
- Kenneth MacMillan
- National Portrait Gallery
- British Museum
- Arts funding
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Oil
- Oil and gas companies
- Natalia Osipova
Royal Opera to premiere new work by George Benjamin