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Sue Arnold's audiobook choice

4815 days ago
Guardian MusicOpera Explained: La Traviata and the SmartPass Guide to King LearOpera Explained: An Introduction to Verdi – La Traviata, by Thomson Smillie, read by David Timson (68mins, Naxos, £5.95)Enlightenment for the price of a pizza, Italy's other great gi... more info

Anna Netrebko: Russian opera's 'sexy babe'

4909 days ago
CNN ShowbizWith her sumptuous voice and glamorous looks, Russian opera star Anna Netrebko is one of the most popular ambassadors of classical music today. more info

Rossini: Stabat Mater – review

4914 days ago
Guardian MusicNetrebko/DiDonato/Brownlee/D'Arcangelo/Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano(EMI)Rossini's 1842 setting of the Stabat Mater formed a conscious departure from the Pergolesi model, aspiring to drama rather than contem... more info

Vittorio Grigolo: The Italian Tenor | CD review

4949 days ago
Guardian MusicGrigolo/ Teatro Regio Orchestra Parma/ MorandiVittorio Grigolo is best known to UK audiences as the handsome tenor who stole the show from Anna Netrebko in the Royal Opera's production of Manon, and then made an insidiously attractive Duke in the rec... more info

Royal Opera Japan tour diary: Wilting wigs, weapons and a tiny shot at fame

4974 days ago
Guardian MusicThe dress rehearsal of La Traviata in Yokohama had it all: a battle against the humidity, a hunt for stage weaponry and three little girls fighting it out for a walk-on partTo Yokohama for the dress rehearsal of La Traviata, and the practicalities of... more info

Royal Opera Japan tour diary: Scrimping and singalongs in Tokyo

4977 days ago
Guardian MusicI've joined Britain's best opera company as it begins a whistlestop Asian tour. It's not quite rock'n'roll – but nearly"We're sending you out east. You're going to be embedded." Not words that often crop up on the books and arts beat, but despite m... more info

Tom Service on the great opera scam

4985 days ago
Guardian Music'Beware the tenor with a new Rolex'The time has come, in this week of lifting the lid on cricket corruption, to reveal the virus at the heart of classical music, the canker in the operatic apple. For years, those of us in the business have tried to k... more info

Manon, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Idomeneo | Opera review

5052 days ago
Guardian MusicROH, London; Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; Coliseum, LondonSoprano Anna Netrebko, the fabulous, gutsy, quixotic Russian diva of divas who reduces men to milksops, had top billing in the title role of Manon, the Royal Opera's final new production ... more info

Manon | Opera review

5055 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Opera House, LondonLaurent Pelly's new production of Massenet's sad, sensuous masterpiece was primarily intended as a vehicle for cult diva Anna Netrebko. But the evening really belongs to her des Grieux, Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo – youn... more info

Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad'

5061 days ago
Guardian MusicRussian super-soprano Anna Netrebko is to star in Massenet's opera at the ROH. But what's it like going from cleaner to 'bling-bling' diva?Anna Netrebko is the ultimate modern incarnation of operatic divadom. She plays the part of the fantasy-soprano... more info

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