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Notre-Dame Reopening Concert, review: One star shines above all (and it wasn’t Pharrell Williams)
This triumphant show was lit up with a spectacular mix of classical and new – but the real icon was 800 years old
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The Pirates of Penzance: ENO’s sparkling Mike Leigh revival lets young voices shine
Gilbert and Sullivan’s words and music have seldom sounded more enjoyably in sync than in this delightful return to Leigh’s 2015 production
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Tosca, ROH: Bryn Terfel excels, but where’s the drama?
Royal Opera’s 18-year-old production, revived to mark the centenary of Puccini’s death, is showing its age
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ENO thinks it can educate the whole of Manchester – but where is the actual opera?
ENO’s new partnership is an awkward compromise which fails to capitalise on its excellent musicians, or its flair for big productions
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Suor Angelica, ENO, review: a thought-provoking analogy of Puccini’s tragic one-act opera
This shattering staging of Puccini’s rarely performed masterpiece is a tense reimagining via Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries scandal
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La bohème, ENO: a comforting revival of the Jonathan Miller warhorse
With its injection of fresh talent, this company staple is an assured way to open ENO’s Puccini centenary celebration
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: A chilling take on Shostakovich’s masterpiece
Barcelona’s Gran Teatre de Liceu is marking the 25th anniversary of its reopening with a powerful staging of Shostakovich’s dark tale
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Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera: A true classic gets the abstract treatment
Ted Huffman’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s great opera wipes the cultural slate clean with an all-too-blank canvas that has mixed results
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Rigoletto, Welsh National Opera: a powerful and disturbing battle cry
The beleaguered company called off a planned strike, and gave it their all in this shocking, committed production
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Sky in a Small Cage: Storytelling and meditation make for an awkward mix
With luck, Rolf Hind’s latest work will highlight the eloquence and depth of Sufi mystic Rumi’s poetry – but the opera is a curate’s egg
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The Marriage of Figaro, Royal Opera: A wealth of new detail lifts David McVicar’s classic production
This ever-fresh Mozart revival is popular with everyone – and showcases two striking house debuts from Ying Fang and Ginger Costa-Jackson
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Eight must-see operas to book tickets for this autumn
From Rigoletto to Ruddigore, our critic rounds up the best operas of the season
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Abridge the classics, consult the local mayor and eight other ways to fix opera
As the new season launches, here’s a manifesto for how the sector can repair the damage of recent years
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A Bohemian love letter at the Proms, plus the best of August’s classical concerts
A tremendous, uplifting performance of Smetana’s Má Vlast suite by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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The remarkable father and son who made Bach big in Japan
Masaaki Suzuki revolutionised how the composer is played with his world-famous orchestra and choir. Now his son Masato is taking the reins
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Island of Dreams, Grange Park Opera: a quixotic, overly literal take on The Tempest
Composer Anthony Bolton has an admirable go at adapting Shakespeare’s play but fails to add enough to the text
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