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'Tannhäuser itself will always reward audiences in such a thoughtful and often inspired performance'

✍️ Peter Quantrill

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'The ensemble singing in the opening scenes is outstanding'

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✍️Eleanor Knight

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'Huffman and Venables bend the very notion of what constitutes text'

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✍️Mark Seow

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'The piece took the audience on an increasingly dark journey that set individual mystery against collective conformity'

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✍️George Hall

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English Touring Opera wins Achievement in Opera Award at the UK Theatre Awards 2026

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Ahead of the RBO revival of Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis, Eleanor Knight reflects on Sarah Kane's original play and whether attitudes towards mental health have changed in the generations since her suicide

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On memorable form, the company’s chorus sang as a unit but acted as individuals, while Tchaikovsky’s expertly chosen instrumental colours were vividly presented by the orchestra

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✍️ George Hall

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'Quinn Kelsey ideal in thrilling Met 'Macbeth'

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✍️Robert Levine

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'The Russian director links the two operas quite brilliantly'

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✍️Mark Pullinger

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'It is a powerful statement, and a dark, disturbing reading'

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📝Gavin Dixon

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'Patrick Zielke threw himself fully into this new view of Ochs'

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📝Hugo Shirley

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'All three singers work hard to make something individual out of roles that are dramatically cliched'

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✍️ George Hall

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'Martinaitytė describes her work in general as ‘a progression of states’, something Panzer captures with clear-sighted vision'

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✍️Andrew Mellor

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As @ETOpera brings Gluck’s Orpheus to life in a new production, composer Leo Grant explores the process of adding instrumental and electronic re-arrangements and re-compositions of Gluck’s original material

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⭐🎶While interest in the song recital is declining, the Oxford International Song Festival continues to attract audiences. Founder Sholto Kynoch shares what they're doing in Oxford to keep the genre alive

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The Grange Festival has announced changes to its leadership team, including the appointment of Brindley Sherratt as Artistic director, the addition of four new trustees to the board of directors, and the departure of Chief Executive Officer Tyler Stoops.

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As director Evgeny Titov prepares to stage Wagner’s Parsifal at the Royal Opera, he speaks about politics, perspective and criticism when it comes to the artform

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Oxford International Opera's debut is 'as subtle as a brick'

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‘Musically, this revival had other significant strengths too, not least the taut conducting of Michael Papadopoulos, alert to every nuance of Verdi’s edgy drama.’

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✍️Mark Pullinger

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From Little Women to Family Guy, opera sets the scene in more Hollywood movies than you might think...

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