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Joseph Calleja: The Maltese Tenor - review

5571 days ago

Guardian Music — Calleja/Kurzak/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Armiliato (Decca)Joseph Calleja caused something of a stir last year, both at Covent Garden and the Proms, when he played Gabriele Adorno in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra; according to some, he stole the show ... more info

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Dietfried Bernet obituary

5615 days ago

Guardian Music — Austrian conductor admired at opera houses across EuropeThe distinguished Austrian conductor Dietfried Bernet, who has died aged 71, was a regular visitor to Britain, where he was much admired by the public and critics alike. Indeed, some of his best... more info

Manon Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Manon, Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, review

5678 days ago

The Telegraph — This Manon is a strong collective effort, building to a simply devastating close that leaves you elated in the way that only great tragedy can. Rating: * * * * more info

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Vittorio Grigolo: The Italian Tenor | CD review

5879 days ago

Guardian Music — Grigolo/ 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

Anna Netrebko Manon Rigoletto

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

5885 days ago

Guardian Music — The 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

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The Royal Opera on tour in Japan

5885 days ago

Guardian Music — The 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

Manon Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

5902 days ago

Guardian Music — On 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

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

5903 days ago

Guardian Music — The 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

Anna Netrebko Manon

Royal Opera Japan tour diary: Scrimping and singalongs in Tokyo

5906 days ago

Guardian Music — I'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

Manon Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anna Netrebko

Tom Service on the great opera scam

5915 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

Bryn Terfel Anna Netrebko Manon Aida