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16 Dec 2013:
The beauty and refined melancholy of Offenbach's flawed masterpiece shone through in Opera Rara's concert revival, writes Tim Ashley
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14 Dec 2013: Originally published in the Guardian on 14 December 1971: People can get opera in a way as never before, without setting foot in an opera house
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12 Dec 2013:
Four adaptable European improvisers pay tribute to this 18th-century Italian opera, deconstructing it with their own melodic twists and cello swirls, writes John Fordham
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12 Dec 2013: Company to follow Met, Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne in beaming shows from stage to screens, starting with Peter Grimes in February
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12 Dec 2013: The great French director, who died recently, took some persuading to do a play in London – and was seriously ill when he did. But the experience was life-changing, recalls Young Vic artistic director David Lan
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11 Dec 2013:
Claudia Molitor's 'desk opera' – more quirky, intimate performance art than opera – might be slender, but it has an odd beauty to it, writes Erica Jeal
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11 Dec 2013:
With its fascinating score, Julian Philips and Edward Kemp's version of Ted Hughes's creation tales has become an inventive experiment in live theatre, writes Guy Dammann
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11 Dec 2013:
W is for the villa the composer built for himself in Bayreuth, where, as he had it, 'my delusions have found peace'
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9 Dec 2013:
Piotr Beczala says he will not take another role in Italy after section of audience boos new production of La Traviata
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6 Dec 2013: Ahead of an opera version of Ted Hughes's How the Whale Became, librettist Edward Kemp reveals the challenges of rounding up a menagerie of vain and devious animals for the stage
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4 Dec 2013:
Alex Andreou: More than 36 years after the opera singer's death, Callas's voice still has a spellbinding power that few can match
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3 Dec 2013:
Singer is working with playwright Daniel MacIvor to create his second opera, inspired by the 1951 novel Memoirs of Hadrian
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2 Dec 2013:
Callas is an icon as much as she is a singer, writes Tom Service
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2 Dec 2013:
The 90th anniversary of the legendary soprano's birth is marked in the latest Google doodle
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1 Dec 2013:
Do you find opera tedious? Do bits of Shakespeare send you to sleep? Well, you're not alone. David Hare, Julian Barnes and John Eliot Gardiner talk to John Crace about the importance of being bored
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