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Greed, gore and the subtlest twists in Macbeth

25.05.11
Conventional witches are hard to come by in Macbeth these days. But in Phyllida Lloyd's staging of Verdi's opera, newly revived at Covent Garden, there's a plethora of the creatures... more

Pelleas et Melisande and the anguish of a love triangle

20.04.11
Debussy's opera performed on a brightly lit stage inevitably compromises a good deal of its richly symbolic atmosphere... more

The A to Z guide to London's dance scene

14.12.10
From Strictly Come Dancing to the Royal Ballet at the O2, today’s performers and choreographers are finding a whole new audience. Our critic Sarah Frater guides you through London’s booming scene... more

Don Carlo is saved by soaring harmony

16.09.09
The new Don Carlo, Jonas Kaufmann, is not a disappointment: his ringing, ardent tone and rugged good looks win all hearts... more

Cambridge University diversity in Proms show

23.07.09
Forget centenaries, bicentenaries, tercentenaries. Let's celebrate Cambridge University's founding 800 years ago. ... more

Pick of the Proms - from Bollywood to Barenboim

26.05.09
No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival.... more

Bonking Don brings Mozart to the masses

09.09.08
Don Giovanni stars delicious Simon Keenlyside in an undelicious long red wig; with Charles Mackerras, ever wise and brisk, conducting.... 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

Papageno to perfection

29.01.08
Simon Keenlyside's central performance as Papageno binds the Magic Flute together with energy and brilliance.... more

Superb cycles

10.01.08
Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau traced the arc of love won and lost in a succession of powerful readings at Wigmore Hall.... more

Pop goes 2007 - music review of the year

21.12.07
From Mika to Mozart, our music critics present their guide to a vintage year with a look back at the best albums.... more

Playing with Greek fire

11.09.07
Production frustrations aside, the Royal Opera's new season has opened on a musical high with Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride.... more

Passion boxed in

14.05.07
Musical standards ruled, even if the tedium of the Pelléas and Mélisande production did its devilish and level best to hijack minds and flatten imagination.... more

He plays the piano too

18.04.07
Thomas Adès showed he is equally compelling as composer and pianist in the penultimate concert of his festival, Traced Overhead.... 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

Adès proves he's the real thing

13.03.07
Thomas Adès's first full-scale opera, The Tempest, returns to Covent Garden as an assured, fully matured work with many of the reservations evident on first hearing banished.... more


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