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Werther is beautiful and rather boring

06.05.11
Beautiful and rather boring, the ROH's revival of Werther is a good one for an early evening doze. Come alive for Act 3, and you'll get all the best bits... more

Myleene Klass to host Classic Brit Awards

07.04.11
Myleene Klass will host the Classic Brits as her first official engagement since the birth of her second child ... more

Are we down to our last tenor?

06.05.09
Rolando Villazon has just cancelled his performances for the rest of the year — leaving the title of the greatest male voice up for grabs.... more

Tales of love and loss in Les Contes d’Hoffmann

26.11.08
John Schlesinger's lavish 1980 staging feels magnificently antique in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, a quaint nod back at a time of plenty.... 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

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

Top Opera House tickets hit £210 to pay for lower prices in the gods

19.03.08
Top prices at the Royal Opera House are rising to £210 for the hottest productions featuring stars such as Bryn Terfel... more

A very potent potion

14.11.07
French director Laurent Pelly has triumphed again with a delicious new L'elisir d'amore, says Fiona Maddocks.... 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

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

Silver sounds of a golden couple

01.11.06
They're the new golden couple of opera, and although any romantic linkage between Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon is strenuously denied, few at the Barbican believed it... more

The accidental opera singer

18.10.06
He shot to stardom late in life. Now Marcelo Alvarez, one of the great tenors, is back at Covent Garden. He talks to Fiona Maddocks.... more


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