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West Green House Opera Announces 2025 Season

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The West Green House Opera has announced its 2025 season celebrating its 25th anniversary. The season will be dedicated to works inspired by Shakespeare. Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” will take the stage with a cast that includes Fflur Wyn, Katie Coventry, Julian Henao Gonzalez, Timothy Nelson, and Henry Waddington. John Andrews conducts the production by Lysanne van Overbeek. Performance Date: July 18, {…}
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Royal Opera 2024-25 Review: ‘Trouble in Tahiti’ & ‘A Quiet Place’

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(Photo: ©2024 Marc Brenner) It is the first time The Royal Opera have staged Leonard Bernstein’s valedictory operatic double-bill of “Trouble in Tahiti” and “A Quiet Place,” presented in the Linbury Theatre. It is conducted by Nicholas Chalmers, who is also making his Covent Garden debut, and directed by Oliver Mears.  “Trouble in Tahiti” is from 1954, and is separated {…}
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Pretty Yende, Sonya Yoncheva, Juan Diego Flórez, Allan Clayton, Lise Davidsen, & Lisette Oropesa Lead Royal Opera House’s 2024-25 Season

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The Royal Opera House has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the season. Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” will open the season with a cast that includes Luca Micheletti, Ying Fang, Huw Montague Rendall, Jacquelyn Stucker, and Ginger Costa-Jackson. Performance Dates: Sept. 2-15, 2024 Verdi’s “La Traviata” will feature two casts. The first cast will be headlined {…}
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Garsington Opera Unveils 2024 Season

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Garsington Opera has announced its 2024 season which will feature five operas. First up is “Platé” starring Samuel Boden, Mireille Asselin, Robert Murray, Jonathan McGovern, Henry Waddington, and Ossian Huskinson. Paul Agnew conducts and Louisa Muller directs. Performance Dates: May 29 – June 30, 2024 Next up is “Le Nozze di Figaro” conducted by Tabita Berglund with Bruno Ravella reviving John {…}
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Royal Opera House Announces Cast Change for ‘The Barber of Seville’

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The Royal Opera House has announced a cast change for the performance of “The Barber of Seville” on Feb. 15, 2023. The company said that “Fabio Capitanucci is unwell and will walk the role of Dr. Bartolo in tonight’s performance of ‘The Barber of Seville.’ Grant Doyle will sing from the side of the stage We hope that audiences in {…}
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English Touring Opera 2021 – 22 Review: The Golden Cockerel

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(Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Rimsky-Korsakov wrote 13 operas, yet outside his native Russia they have struggled to establish themselves, notching up only the occasional performance, with the possible exception of his final opera “The Golden Cockerel,” which has always managed to maintain a presence on the international stage. Based on Pushkin’s 1834 fairy tale poem of the same name, Rimsky-Korsakov {…}
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Peter Scott Drackley & Michel de Souza Lead Nevill Holt Opera’s 2022 Season

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UK’s Nevill Holt Opera has announced its 2022 season featuring two opera productions and a major concert performance. The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème” starring Francesca Chiejina, Peter Scott Drackley, Alexandra Oomens, Christopher Nairne, Dominic Sedgwick, and Dingle Yandell. Mathilda du Tillieul Mcnicol directs the production with Nicholas Chalmers conducting. Performance Dates: June 8-14, 2022 Katie Bray, Michel de {…}
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English Touring Opera Announces Spring 2022 Performances

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(Credit: English Touring Opera official website) The English Touring Opera has announced its 2022 spring performances. Here is a full slate. Puccini’s “La bohème” features Francesca Chiejina and Paula Sides as Mimì; Jenny Stafford and April Koyejo-Audiger in the role of Musetta; and Luciano Botelho and Thomas Elwin as Rodolfo. The cast is rounded out by Michel de Souza, Jerome {…}
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Opera Holland Park 2021 Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

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(Photo: Ali Wright) The second half of Opera Holland Park’s revamped summer offering opened this week with Leoš Janáček’s late, philosophical comedy “The Cunning Little Vixen,” conducted by Jessica Cottis and directed by Stephen Barlow. One of the strange gifts of lockdown for Londoners – those blessed with gardens anyway – was the opportunity, working from home, to experience more {…}

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