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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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Spend summer with Wagner

The legendary Wagner Opera Festival in Bayreuth runs until April 28. While in Italy, the Macerata Opera Festival focuses on traditional Italian operas and runs until August 9.

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Australia: Unique opera experience in a cave

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Stravinsky's 'Rake's Progress': a beautiful, tragic fall from grace at NY' Met Opera

Igor Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’ is a tale of the rise and fall of a young man enticed by the devil with promises of money and happiness. It

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Intoxicating climate change opera 'CO2' at La Scala Milan

Opera is on the move the themes of love, war, heroism and death are out and climate change is in. The opera ‘CO2’ at Milan La Scala Milan stages the

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Opolais brings passion and poise to "Eugene Onegin"

It is one of the most moving scenes in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, recently successfully staged at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. The role of the

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A poetic journey with "Ciboulette" at the Opéra Comique in Paris

Back on the stage of the Opéra Comique in Paris, is “Ciboulette”, an operetta Reynaldo Hahn composed in 1923. Intended as a nostalgic homage to

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Marriage of Figaro returns to Bolshoi after 20 years

One of Mozart’s most famous operas, ‘The Mariage of Figaro’, is returning to Moscow’s Bolshoi after a 20-year break. The last time the masterpiece

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Don Giovanni: Schrott shines as Monte Carlo is seduced by Mozart's complex hero

Mozart’s Don Giovanni', is a joyous drama that, by telling us of the feats of the unrepentant seducer, reveals the pain of longing and the agony of

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Barcelona's prestigious Liceu Teatre regains lost lustre

Located in the heart of the famous Rambla, The Gran Teatre del Liceu is one of the most important opera houses in Europe and one of Barcelona’s major

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Shooting for the starts - British soprano plans a live concert from space

British soprano Sarah Brightman is training for the gig of her life and preparing for a unique performance: a live concert from space. The fifty-four

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Placido Domingo enlightens in dark Macbeth

Superstar Plácido Domingo debuted as Macbeth recently at the Berlin State Opera. But he had to be persuaded to take the role of a killer.

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The show goes on at Donetsk opera house

As war unfolds on its streets, the opera house in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk remains open against all odds with performers giving their services for free and audience members expressing app