Opera

Peter Grimes: the best recordings of Britten's famous opera

Daniel Jaffé fishes out the finest recordings of Britten’s deeply unsettling but utterly gripping opera, Peter Grimes
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Jake Heggie: a life less ordinary

American composer Jake Heggie is best known for his operas, which tackle painful and difficult topics – and his path to success has been anything but ordinary, writes Kate Wakeling
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St Pancras Station to host premieres of seven new operas by female composers on International Women's Day

Mini operas commissioned by the Royal Opera House are inspired by trains, time, motion, meetings and farewells
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Opera's monstrous mothers

Here are six maternal horrors from the musical stage
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The scariest operas: how the supernatural world has inspired opera composers

Ashutosh Khandekar explores how the supernatural in opera has served to express both our deepest fears and darkest desires
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Irish National Opera to release first official recordings with Signum Records

The first release in the recording partnership will be the premiere recording of Gerald Barry's opera Alice's Adventures Underground
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The best Puccini operas, as chosen by 7 leading singers and directors

Seven of the world's top opera singers and directors choose the Puccini operas they could never live without
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What happened at the premiere of Madam Butterfly?

Puccini’s Madam Butterfly failed to take flight at its premiere in Milan in February 1904
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What is Wagner's Ring Cycle?

Wagner’s vast Ring cycle ultimately takes us back to where we started, so what was the composer trying to tell us? Tom Service goes in search of some epic answers
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Who was Jenny Lind?

Worshipped by Mendelssohn and promoted on a sell-out US tour by PT Barnum, Jenny Lind enjoyed unrivalled popularity for a singer. George Hall traces the remarkable story of the ‘Swedish Nightingale’
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Is Glyndebourne Festival Opera taking place in 2021?

Glyndebourne's summer opera series is a British musical institution, but last year it was forced to take place outdoors with social distancing. Is this year's festival still scheduled to go ahead?
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What are the lyrics to 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's opera Turandot?

Here are both the original Italian and English lyrics for the aria 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's opera Turandot
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The best opera recordings released on CD and DVD in 2021 so far

A list of the greatest opera albums released so far in 2021, as chosen by the BBC Music Magazine critics
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The best recordings of Puccini’s Tosca

Alexandra Wilson plunges into a world of love, lust, deception and violence as she names the best recordings of Puccini’s dramatic opera, Tosca
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