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• The Turn of the Screw review – compelling, challenging and creepy

  

  22 Oct 2014: Jonathan Kent’s production of Britten’s ghost story is revived to haunting effect, with standout central performances from the children, writes Tim Ashley

• We took four New Yorkers to The Death of Klinghoffer: what was their verdict?

  21 Oct 2014: On Monday night, hundreds of people protested outside the Met opera that Klinghoffer was antisemitic. So what was our panel’s take?

• Protesters disrupt The Death of Klinghoffer opera at New York’s Lincoln Center

  21 Oct 2014: Campaigners call for Metropolitan Opera to cancel performance, saying work is antisemitic and glorifies terrorism

• Met Opera rejects antisemitism claims rising from Klinghoffer protests

  20 Oct 2014: Demonstrators to gather outside opera house to protest against John Adams opera about the murder of a Jewish holidaymaker by PLO

• Life on the Moon review – ETO’s production is terrific fun

  

  20 Oct 2014: Haydn’s little-known comedy is uproariously funny and exceptionally well sung, even if the staging can feel overly busy, writes Tim Ashley

• Rudy Giuliani expected to join protest against Met's Klinghoffer opera

  19 Oct 2014: Protesters accuse The Death of Klinghoffer, dramatises Jewish man’s killing by Palestinian guerrillas, of antisemitism

• The Bartered Bride review – luxurious cast enlivens communist setting

  

  19 Oct 2014: Daniel Slater’s eastern-bloc revival of Smetana’s hymn to the Czech soul benefits from one of Opera North’s strongest casts to date, writes Alfred Hickling

• Ottone review – magnificently but only intermittently alive

  

  19 Oct 2014: English Touring Opera’s production of the 1723 Handel opera works its hardest to overcome the original’s unevenness, writes Tim Ashley

• I due Foscari; The Trial – review

  

  19 Oct 2014: Plácido Domingo remains a mesmerising stage presence, while Philip Glass takes on Kafka, writes Fiona Maddocks

• From the Observer archive, 21 October 1973: Sydney takes opera house to its heart

  19 Oct 2014: Despite grumbles from the chattering classes, the city’s people welcomed the new venue, writes John Pringle

• Handel, Bononcini, Ariosti: A Royal Trio CD review – Zazzo in glorious voice

  

  19 Oct 2014: Lawrence Zazzo excels a fine recital that places Handel alongside his operatic peers, writes Nicholas Kenyon

• The Marriage of Figaro review – Fiona Shaw’s revival struggles to hit the right note

  

  17 Oct 2014: Conductor Jaime Martín turns in a lively account of the score, but the production would benefit from more zest and wit, writes Andrew Clements

• Haydn the opera composer - why are his stage works neglected?

  17 Oct 2014: Haydn wrote 15 operas. Thanks to English Touring Opera, there’s a rare opportunity to see one of them this autumn.

• Greece honours Maria Callas with arts academy in former Athens home

  16 Oct 2014: American-born soprano’s links to Greece celebrated as fans try to reclaim ‘La Divina’ as a national icon 37 years after her death

• La Cenerentola review – decent but unmemorable Cinderella retelling

  

  16 Oct 2014: Sandrine Anglada’s Rossini revival is neither very funny nor profound, but Victoria Yarovaya’s Cenerentola is terrific, writes Kate Molleson

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