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Drinkers treated to opera for £5

17.11.09
A pub theatre is offering opera for a fiver in an ambitious programme of grand-scale music in a bar-room setting.... more

Renée Fleming should sprinkle some stardust

04.11.09
Not content to rest on her laurels, the American soprano Renée Fleming has been investigating unfamiliar repertoire in recent years.... more

Precise humour in L'Heure Espagnole

19.10.09
Nobody could accuse Ravel of resorting to slapstick in his one-act opera L’Heure Espagnole.... more

Opening this week

28.09.09
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has its premiere in Leicester Square and The Power of Yes comes to the National.... more

Music and Mussolini

05.08.09
With three pieces by Ottorino Respighi, the Italian dictator’s favourite composer, receiving their Proms premieres, William Ward examines the cultural legacy of fascism.... more

Madam Butterfly needs the right tone

11.06.09
There is a combination of cool elegance and tawdry glamour that is too often at odds with the emotional involvement of Madam Butterfly.... more

School talent debuts in park opera

29.05.09
Opera Holland Park has recruited schoolchildren to sing in one of its biggest productions of the summer... more

La Bohème is strong on detail, low on drama

05.02.09
La Bohème is strong on psychological detail but that level of realism threatens to drain the production of theatricality. ... more

The face of modern opera

14.01.09
The first big event in London’s music calendar is the UK premiere of Die tote Stadt, Korngold’s 1920 work that finally brought opera into the real world... more

La Fanciulla del West makes impact

17.09.08
We expect the West to be wild but perhaps not as hairily so as in the opening act of Puccini’s Gold Rush opera, La Fanciulla del West.... more

Proms brought to close with flair

15.09.08
Kitted out in Welsh red dragon coat trimmed with saltire and cross of St George, Bryn Terfel led the lusty crowd in Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms.... more

Murder on the Seine with Noseda

12.08.08
Noseda and his players gave it every chance, breathing easily in slower passages and finding an electrifying energy for the fast stuff.... more

Glorious grime in Grimeborn

05.08.08
Grimeborn is an opera festival that strives to be everything that Glyndebourne isn't. Odd, then, to open with one of the most grime-free of composers.... more

Not much opera at Tête à Tête

01.08.08
Don't go to Tête à Tête's Opera Festival expecting Mozart and Puccini. What you get instead is "opera and the edges of it".... more

The Good, the bad and the Ugly has makeover

31.07.08
Shown now with a new print and in the version revamped by MGM, The Good, the bad and the Ugly still looks a treat.... more

Rags to riches story in La Boheme

14.07.08
The irony of this staging of La Bohème is that to create Puccini's Bohemian world of impecunious pleasure and pain, a ton of money must be spent. ... more

Brave score at Grange Park

10.06.08
La Fanciulla del West, directed by Stephen Medcalf and designed by Francis O'Connor, worked stunningly at Grange Park.... more

Get out there – 20 ways to enjoy the summer

30.05.08
This is a golden, sunburned age of outdoor entertainment in London. Get out there. Buy a ticket. Crack open a bottle of something cold. Enjoy.... more

Sex, death and politics

13.05.08
In barely 100 minutes Puccini's Tosca delivers corruption, sexual passion, political insurrection, religious hypocrisy and murder.... more

Heroine takes a plunge into this thrilling Tosca

29.02.08
This Tosca reaches a totally different audience from the usual ENO or Covent Garden crowd - unpretentious and enthusiastic to enjoy a good show.... more

It's not over until the leading lady springs

12.02.08
American opera singer Cynthia Lawrence is limbering up to perform a death-defying leap for her role in Tosca.... more

It's not over until the leading lady springs

12.02.08
Opera singer Cynthia Lawrence is limbering up to perform a deathdefying leap for her art... more

Minghella's Madam Butterfly visionary moments

01.02.08
Madam Butterfly is an opera with everything, yet producer Anthony Minghella seems reluctant to deliver the story straight.... more

Sex and death in Italy

30.07.07
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Access all arias

22.05.07
The Royal Opera House's free, open-air screenings of ballet and opera have become essential events. This summer there are a trio of classics to choose from.... more

What impeccable timing

02.04.07
Following his Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk triumph, Richard Jones has returned to Covent Garden with a sparkling double-bill of Ravel at his most inventive and Puccini at his funniest.... more

A pleasure for all

06.03.07
The Royal Academy of Music's double-bill pleased the audience with nimble productions by Orpha Phelan and no shortage of youthful promise from all over the world.... more

Geisha with a fiery flutter

26.02.07
There has been much debate about whether Madam Butterfly is racist or not but no one watching this production at the Royal Albert Hall could mistake where Puccini's sympathies lay. ... more

Race row greets ROH Madama Butterfly

14.02.07
Madama Butterfly, one of the world's most popular operas, opens in Covent Garden amid fresh accusations of racism.... more

Rustic rasps and a tense frisson

13.09.06
Garish and often over-heated, the London Schools Symphony Orchestra under artistic director Peter Ash put on a show at the Barbican that would have made many full-time orchestras pround.... more

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