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Something rotten in Rigoletto

11.02.09
Verdi's Rigoletto is Italian opera at its most tunefully delirious but it also outlines a precise anatomy of power's corrosive effects.... more

Verdi's Requiem strikes a good balance

12.01.09
LSO brings out the spirituality beneath Verdi’s greasepaint at the Barbican.... more

Milan's finest operas to be screened live in London

10.11.08
Performances from La Scala, the legendary opera house, are to be beamed live to London... 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

Lufthansa staff back strike call

25.07.08
Cabin crews and ground staff at Lufthansa have voted for strike action starting on Sunday 27th which will bring chaos for thousands of visiting businessmen... more

Royal Opera House will broadcast live to cinemas

22.07.08
The Royal Opera House is to broadcast operas and ballets live to cinemas across Britain this autumn... more

Don Carlo takes opera to the people

03.07.08
Don Carlo at Covent Garden is the hot opera ticket of the summer - an impassioned production, full of starry names.... more

Passion unlocked in Don Carlo

09.06.08
National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner's staging of Verdi’s Don Carlo at Covent Garden is absorbing and impeccably cast.... more

Il Trovatore not dampened by weather

04.06.08
There may have been gipsy curses on the weather but Il Trovatore stormed to success in its opening night at Opera Holland 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

An Artful Doge fixes Verdi’s wobbly table

06.05.08
Several 11th-hour cast changes, together with John Gunter’s oppressive, post-modernist fixed set didn't bode well for Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.... more

Royal Opera House airbrushed away my manhood, claims naked actor

04.03.08
When he was asked to portray the leading role to advertise a Royal Opera House production of Verdi's Rigoletto, the fledgling actor was happy to oblige. But seven years on, with the powerful image still being used to promote the opera on huge billboards, the now established TV and film actor says a vital part of his anatomy has been unflatteringly air-brushed... more

High intensity from Gergiev

25.02.08
Valery Gergiev's performance with the Vienna Philharmonic was a reading of characteristic emotional intensity.... more

These pirates have real swagger

20.02.08
An inventive cast and superb and zesty music makes the Pirates of Penzance good enough to make the sceptics smile.... more

Brilliance dimmed by a sales gimmick

28.01.08
Natalie Dessay is a true stage animal, but she looked troubled throughout her gig at the Barbican Hall.... more

Be seduced by a superstar

15.01.08
La Traviata was a triumph of operatic spectacle with the superstar of the 21st century, Anna Netrebko, giving an electrifying performance.... more

Zandra goes to the opera

07.11.07
Flamboyant designer Zandra Rhodes has created the costumes and set for Verdi's Aida. But can she make it the Christmas hit the English National Opera so desperately needs?... more

Macbeth draws bloody and raw performance

25.07.07
Nobody knows how many operas have been based on Shakespeare, but few of them work as well as Verdi's Macbeth.... more

Sexy Don is such a slow mover

12.06.07
Anna Netrebko's replacement Marina Poplavaskaya showed all the signs of being a huge star in the Royal Opera's revival of Don Giovanni. ... more

Chorus of approval in park

06.06.07
Verdi's Nabucco opened the 2007 season at Opera Holland Park and David Wakeham offers a performance of genuine stature in the lead role... more

Proms takes inspiration from Hurricane Katrina

26.04.07
The BBC Proms will tackle the subject of global warming with a musical drama inspired by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.... more

Verdi back at full blast

23.04.07
Mark Elder, ever an accomplished Verdian, directed a well-paced and impassioned performance of Stiffelio, with fine woodwind solos and some wonderfully hushed string passages.... more

Zandra creates 'eye-popping' costumes for opera

18.04.07
Zandra Rhodes will design the set and costumes for an extravagant new production of Aida, the highlight of the English National Opera's new season announced today.... more

Hytner's back in an epic season at Covent Garden

04.04.07
Nicholas Hytner is to return to the Royal Opera House after a 20 year absence, as the Royal Opera House annouces an epic 2007/08 season.... more

Curtain up at Covent Garden

04.04.07
Royal Opera's new season will turn a young Russian singer into a star. There's nowhere else she'd rather perform, she says.... more

Verdi's dark designs given full rein

31.01.07
Popular, tuneful and furiously melodramatic, Il Trovatore set Covent Garden ablaze with a quartet of top voices and a conductor who maintained a firm but pliable rhythmic drive.... more

Energy, fire and integrity

23.11.06
The beige stage of Verdi's grim Rigoletto is a sludgy mess. So it's lucky that a fine cast and glittering score are on hand to do all the work.... more

Out of their depth

09.10.06
Trying to offer non-gimmicky opera for Classic FM lovers is not a cardinal sin. But Fiona Maddocks thinks Opera UK might have bitten off a little too much here.... more

Oscar's wild child

28.09.06
As part of a renewal of core repertoire, English National Opera has staged its first new production of Verdi's La Traviata for a decade. The opening night, alas, was a disappointment.... more

Critic's Choice: Opera

27.09.06
Set promisingly in mid/late-19th-century Dublin, the new production of Verdi's La Traviata from the ENO explores the sexual mores of the period against a background of religious conflict.... more

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