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Royal Opera House commissions new stage curtains to honour the King

The curtains will be crafted in collaboration with renowned specialists Gerriets and the Royal School of Needlework and are due to be unveiled in May.

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King Charles honoured with significant gesture by Royal Opera House

A new set of curtains, crafted in collaboration with renowned specialists, will be unveiled in May

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‘I’m good at doing pain’: soprano Ausrine Stundyte on trauma, adrenaline and playing a 300-year-old woman

As she prepares to star in Janáček’s The Makropulos Case for the Royal Opera, the great singer explains that she does not play ‘the happy, jumping, sexy lady’

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The Magic Flute review – assured, atmospheric and a lot of fun

Revival of David McVicar’s production is full of kitsch turns and exquisite performances, not least from young French conductor Marie Jacquot

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Tosca at Royal Opera: the controversial return of Russian soprano Anna Netrebko

4/5 The new Tosca at Royal Opera marks the debut of Jakub Hrusa as music director but also the return of Anna Netrebko to the spotlight

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Semele at Royal Opera House review: 'deeply disturbing and thought provoking'

4/5 Oliver Mears’ creates a darker and more sinister take on Handel’s opera, with an impressive cast including Pretty Yende in the title role

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Wagner's Die Walküre at Royal Opera: revelatory and apocalyptic

5/5 This stark and stunning production by Barrie Kosky is apocalyptic and breathtaking

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Natalya Romaniw on Wagner’s Die Walküre: 'It's not just balls to the wall!'

Soprano Natalya Romaniw tells us about the challenge of taking on Wagner’s epic at the Royal Opera House

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'We have to drive the art forms forward': Royal Opera and Ballet announce new season for 2025/26

The programming has been unveiled by Royal Ballet and Opera, and it is an exciting mix of the historic and the cutting edge

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The week in classical: Aida; Chineke!; Paddington Trio – review

The Royal Opera Chorus steals the show in a revival of Robert Carsen’s solemn take on Verdi; Chineke! celebrate 10 years of change-making. Plus, a great young string trio who live every note

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Aida review – parades and totalitarianism rather than pyramids and triumphal marches

Royal Opera House, LondonRobert Carsen’s abstract 2022 production of Verdi’s controversial opera has no trace of its Egyptian setting which brings a schism between staging and score

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‘It’s really a very dark comedy’: Festen, the explosive opera based on the dinner-party-from-hell film

The Danish film about racism, child abuse and self-harm caused jaws to drop in the 90s. Can it work as opera? Absolutely, say lyricist Lee Hall and composer Mark-Anthony Turnage

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Jenůfa review – this opera is in Hrůša’s DNA, his account is not to be missed

The Royal Opera’s incoming music director conducts a performance of rare intensity and authority, with Corrine Winters and Karita Mattila compelling in the two central roles

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‘Opera should be an unstoppable art form’: Royal Opera announce Netia Jones as associate director

The Royal Ballet and Opera have created a new role, allowing Jones to drive development and new commissions

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Andrea Chénier review – Pappano ends on a high with this sensational, thrilling revival

David McVicar’s 2015 staging of Giordano’s French Revolution opera is the final production of Antonio Pappano’s tenure as music director of the Royal Opera. With leads Jonas Kaufmann and Sondra Radvanovsky, it is an exciting, affecting evening

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Antonio Pappano Gala review – farewell concert celebrates the best thing that has happened to the Royal Opera

Singers including Jonas Kaufmann joined newer vocal stars such as Aigul Akhmetshina to honour the much loved music director on an evening that ended with the royal seal of approval

Evening Standard

Elektra, Royal Opera House review: Nina Stemme and Karita Mattila power a revelatory take on Greek tragedy

The two sopranos at the centre of Christof Loy's production offer up fascinating new perspectives

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Jephtha at the Royal Opera House review: highly recommended to all but zealots and puritans

This is a powerful indictment of religious fervour and the dangers that can stem from it

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Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera review: this could be a Ring to savour as it unfolds in the coming years

Christopher Maltman is well on the way to becoming a truly great Wotan

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Don Carlo at the Royal Opera review: a legendary performance from Lise Davidsen

A memorable revival at Covent Garden

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Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House review: leaves its singers stranded

Adele Thomas’s new production tries hard not to be decorous, but doesn’t hang together

The Independent UK

Speranza Scappucci to become Royal Opera's principal guest conductor

Speranza Scappucci will become principal guest conductor of London’s Royal Opera starting with the 2025-26 season

The Guardian - UK

‘We can’t just be in our ivory tower’: the Italian conductor aiming to open up the Royal Opera House to everyone

Speranza Scappucci hopes to demystify the art form for the English public when she becomes principal guest conductor

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The week in classical: Wozzeck; Don Giovanni – Christian Gerhaher and Anja Kampe thrill in five-star Berg

Direction and music are as one in Deborah Warner’s gripping new Royal Opera production, while a fine young cast redeems thoughtful if low-key Mozart

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Arminio review – confident staging returns Handel rarity to its starting point

This lesser-known darkly compelling work is given a smart production that fizzes with contemporary relevance and puts female voices to the fore

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