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Montserrat Caballe handed six-month suspended jail sentence

The Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence and fined more than 250,000 euros for tax evasion

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Center stage: Opéra National de Paris

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Forgotten gems from Wexford Opera Festival

Ireland can boast one of the most prestigous international music events: Wexford Opera Festival, now in its 64th edition. Its aim is quite unique

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Hitchcock's 'Notorious' becomes opera in Sweden

As 2015 marks the centennial of Ingrid Bergman's birth, Gothenburg's opera house honors the late Swedish actress with a version of 'Notorious', Hitchcock's cult film.

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Desdemona a victim? Never!

A much-anticipated new production of Verdi’s Otello has opened the season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. It’s a lavish show full of excitement

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Florez lights up the stage in Orphée et Eurydice at Covent Garden

Juan Diego Flórez is one of the most sought after tenors of our time. Far from his usual Bel Canto repertoire, Flórez shines singing in French at the

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Center stage: The Metropolitan Opera

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Tintin comes to life in open-air Opera

Famous boy detective Tintin has come to life on stage in a new open-air production by Opera For All. The Belgian company chose the classic 1963 comic

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Glyndebourne 2015: Danni de Niese revels in Ravel

At the Glyndebourne Festival,in England one of the highlights of this summer’s edition was Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges and “L’heure

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Jonas Kaufmann: three operas, three roles, three styles

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Plácido Domingo, orchestra tenor

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Portrait: Claus Guth

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Kaufmann's dark take on Beethoven at Salzburg Festival

It is one of the highlights of this year’s Salzburg Festival: The new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio”. On stage, there’s a remarkable cast

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Operalia: striking the right note in Covent Garden

Placido Domingo's prestigious singing competition, held in London for the first time, showcased the world's most promising talents in opera

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Center stage: Operalia at the Royal Opera House

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The art of singing Rossini

Rossini’s famous masterpiece “Othello” is returning to La Scala in Milan after 145 years. The opera, which premiered in 1816 to huge success in

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Humanoid robot stars in Berlin opera

A small robot, the size as an 8-year-old child, is the unlikely star of the opera ‘My Square Lady’ at Berlin’s Komische Oper. The opera tells the

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Sitting Pretty: rising South African star Yende revels in Don Pasquale role

Pretty Yende is considered one of the rising stars of the operatic world. The 30-year-old South African debuted recently at the Gran Teatre del Liceu

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Cecilia Bartoli as Gluck's tragic heroine

“I pray to the almighty gods” is this year’s theme of the Whitsun festival in Salzburg, chosen by artistic director Cecilia Bartoli. The famous mezzo

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