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Paul Mescal, Jodie Comer, and David Tennant were among this year’s nominees

Paul Mescal, Jodie Comer, and David Tennant are among this year’s nominees

If his Dvořák felt a little bland, with Bartók and Strauss’s Dance of the Seven Veils, the Royal Opera’s music director designate gave London audiences a glimpse of the vivid excitement he can bring

Britten’s opera is a strange, unsettling and unbearably private piece. Set in ancient Rome and written over 70 years ago, its theme is still all too contemporary, writes the director of a new production

RIGHT now, London has two opera houses. (Berlin has three.) There’s the Royal Opera, the grand one, in Covent Garden, and, in the West End, you can see English National Opera a mile off, under the sparkly orb of the London Coliseum. They’re different. The Royal Opera attracts singers you’d…

The Czech-born conductor will take over from Antonio Pappano in 2025. He talks exclusively to the Guardian about what shape the opera house will take under his musical leadership

The Peruvian tenor and his co-star Ailyn Pérez get it right every time in this well-loved, if overbearing, staging

Juan Diego Flórez delivers a winning performance as Puccini’s least mature leading man, while Danielle de Niese’s Musetta is merciless

Verdi’s music reigns supreme in the Royal Opera’s austere new staging of Aida; a community Bernstein production raises the roof; and a cult 90s work has never felt more timely