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

A memorable revival at Covent Garden

Evening Standard

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

Evening Standard

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

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

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Olivier Awards 2023 winners: The complete list in full

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

The Independent UK

Olivier Awards 2023 nominations: The complete list in full

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

The Independent UK

Olivier awards 2023: complete list of nominations

My Neighbour Totoro leads the way with nine nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Rusalka; The Rhinegold

Royal Opera’s new staging of Dvořák’s watery Rusalka finds fresh resonsances, while the ENO’s updated Ring cycle is really starting to shine

The Guardian - UK

Rusalka at the Royal Opera review: a superb cast with no weak links

Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami’s new production reframes the story as being about the despoliation of nature

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Tannhäuser; Isata Kanneh-Mason & Maxwell Quartet; Gesualdo Six: Secret Byrd

Majestic Lise Davidsen and Gerald Finley carry the Royal Opera’s illness-hit Wagner revival; Isata Kanneh-Mason and co shine; and in the shadows with William Byrd

The Guardian - UK

Philharmonia/Hrůša review – genteel beginnings cede to compelling drama

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

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An explosive act of violence: why Britten’s Rape of Lucretia speaks to our brutal times

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

Evening Standard

Carnage for the ENO is what ‘levelling up’ really means

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 Guardian - UK

Royal Opera House announces Jakub Hrůša as its new music director

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

Evening Standard

La Bohème at the Royal Opera House review: Juan Diego Flórez is still kicking to score

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

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The Guardian - UK

La Bohème review – Christmas comes early to the Royal Opera House

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

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Aida; Candide; Manchester Collective: Weather – review

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

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: La Traviata; Salome; Jeneba Kanneh-Mason & the Philharmonia – review

NI Opera’s excellent new Verdi production went straight to the heart, while Royal Opera’s Strauss revival failed to ignite. Plus, the next star Kanneh-Mason…

The Guardian - UK

Salome review – lethal desires and emotional extremism

Alexander Soddy made an auspicious Royal Opera debut with his wonderful conducting of this revival of David McVicar’s staging: a tragedy of horrifying power

The Guardian - UK

The Blue Woman review – tensely atmospheric opera of violence on women

Four singers, four cellists and an actor walking Sarah Everard’s final route combine in Katie Mitchell’s not-quite-hopeful production

The Guardian - UK

Beyond black and yellowface: how opera can address prejudice

Madama Butterfly is one of many landmark works to embody offensive beliefs – but there are sensitive ways new productions can tackle these without cancelling them

The Guardian - UK

Anne Howells obituary

Opera singer with a remarkable theatrical presence once described as ‘the Cleopatra of the lyric stage’

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