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Stalwart opera singer who clocked up more than 2,000 performances in around 90 roles at Covent Garden

"Wearing beautiful white tutus, the dancers became elegant, bird-like creatures as they moved across the stage."

Wotan’s daughter isn’t the most obvious person to speak for the sisterhood, but this new music production gives her a new voice

Derek Deane’s plush production asks much of its dancers, but they delivered on the night

Actor Nicholas Ralph has now had some real-life experience treating all creatures great and small after spending time with a real vet - and he found it fascinating

Outstanding performances can’t save Tcherniakov’s new Ring, complete with live rabbits, from closing to a barrage of boos…

Lonely and heartbroken, I first tasted beer at the age of 14. Decades later, after consuming enough alcohol to fill a petrol tanker, I realised it was time to cut back

The long-running series has famously built a reputation for forecasting our future.

From the astounding story of magicians Siegfried and Roy to an addictive series on our obsession with reality TV, here’s the most essential listening from the last six months

With a strong cast including Bradley Daley, Paul Carey Jones’s Wotan and Julieth Lozano’s delightful Woodbird, any weaknesses in the staging were more than compensated for

When Mum was pregnant with me, Dad bought her a paperback copy of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small because it was an easy, pleasant read. I read my mother’s Pan paperback copy, with its cover image of sheep, farmers, and the vet’s vintage car, when I was growing…