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Vittorio Grigolo: The Italian Tenor | CD review

5675 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

Team Tokyo: behind the scenes with the Royal Opera in Japan

5681 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Royal Opera hasn't visited Japan for nearly 20 years, and their recent tour – taking La Traviata and Manon to Tokyo and Yokohama – broke new ground for the company. These exclusive pictures capture the drama backstage more info

The Royal Opera on tour in Japan

5681 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Royal Opera House company hasn't performed in Japan for nearly 20 years. Nicholas Wroe accompanied it on a return visit and found the performers ready to reach out to the worldOn one level the Royal Opera's recent tour of Japan was, as a manager ... more info

Royal Opera Japan tour diary: The second understudy steals the show

5699 days ago
Guardian MusicOn La Traviata's opening night, sitting in my row during Act I, Ailyn Pérez was drafted in to sing Violetta. And she – and the company – turned it into a triumphAnd so to the opening nights, and one of the classic storylines in all opera – not... more info

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

5699 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

5702 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

5711 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

5778 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, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, review

5781 days ago
The TelegraphA perfect pairing brings Massenet's Manon to magical life . Rating: * * * * * more info

Manon | Opera review

5781 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

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