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Jennifer Davis, Hanna Hipp, Jeremy White, Roderick Williams Headline Royal Opera House’s ‘Christmas Concert’

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The Royal Opera House has announced a new holiday streaming slate on Dec. 18, 19, and 20. In addition to a production of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” the company will be showcasing four performances of a “Christmas Concert” featuring scenes from Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” as well as extracts from Puccini’s “La Bohème,” Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” and {…}

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Gerald Finley, Allan Clayton, Stéphane Debout, Natalya Romaniw to Headline World Premiere of ‘Festen’ at ROH

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(Photo: Sebastian Nevols) The Royal Opera in London is set to present the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Festen” this February. The work features a libretto by Lee Hall based on Vinterberg’s revolutionary Dogme 95 film of the same name. The story explores a family reunion gone wrong when secrets expose an abusive relationship between the patriarch and his children. {…}

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Royal Opera House 2024-25 Review: The Tales of Hoffmann

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(Photo ©2024 Camilla Greenwell) In a recent interview with director Damiano Michieletto at the Venice production of “The Tales of Hoffmann,” he said: “At its heart it is a journey into fantasy. It is opera fantastique, after all!” One definition of the French word fantastique is: a term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by {…}

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Juan Diego Flórez & Leonardo Caimi Lead Royal Ballet & Opera’s New ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’

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The Royal Ballet and Opera is set to present Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffman” in a new production by Damiano Michieletto. The production first made its premiere in Sydney and Venice. In a statement, Michieletto said, “The journey of these Contes d’Hoffmann should have started right from London in 2020. The project was then stopped by Covid. But that was just {…}

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Royal Opera House 2024-25 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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(Credit: Clive Barda) As marriages go, this wasn’t one made in heaven. But despite an uneven performance, it ultimately won the audience over and did have moments of striking musical beauty. As the opening night for the 2024-25 season at Covent Garden, the revival of David McVicar’s “Le nozze di Figaro” did predictably well, and filled the house on a {…}

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Royal Opera House 2023–24 Review: Tosca (Cast B)

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(Photo credit: © Marc Brenner/Royal Opera) N.B. In this performance of “Tosca” Russell Thomas replaced the previously scheduled Yusif Eyvazov, who was indisposed. Entitlement enlightens spectators on the contrasting and yet comparable personas of soprano Floria Tosca and barbaric chief of police Scarpia: spoiled brats forsaking all who block their way. Sways of a dress’s train portray the former’s annexing {…}

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Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Celebrating 22 Years of Sir Antonio Pappano

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A truly packed house, a cast of operatic luminaries and a program of works chosen and compiled by Maestro Pappano himself; a Gala, fit for a KING, surely? Which is just as well because His Royal Highness King Charles III was in the audience as a truly surprise guest of honor, courtesy of a massive covert security operation that even {…}