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Wozzeck review – Gerhaher’s victim shuffles towards disaster in nuanced staging

Deborah Warner’s focused and vivid new production avoids caricature, and, with superb singing and Antonio Pappano’s conducting, drama and music dovetail perfectly

The Guardian - UK

Director Adele Thomas: ‘In theatre, you need a private income just to live’

The theatre and opera director on how her working-class Welsh background informs her work, the strangeness of Il trovatore, and her eclectic running playlist

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Burberry to collaborate with Wayne McGregor on new work for The Royal Ballet

Burberry creative director Daniel Lee will work on costumes for British choreographer Wayne McGregor’s new work for The Royal Ballet, premiering 9 June 2023 at London’s Royal Opera House

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World Theatre Day: What West End plays are being streamed at Vue?

World Theatre Day will be be marked with big-screen showings of plays and opera.

Evening Standard

Royal Opera House accused of ‘whitewashing’ over new show

The Royal Opera House (ROH) has been accused of “whitewashing” over its latest production of a Puccini classic.

Evening Standard

Rusalka review – junk-filled staging brings magic and a sombre message

Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami’s thoughtful and effective new production shapes Dvorák’s opera into a tale of mankind versus nature. A first-rate cast is matched by Semyon Bychkov in the pit

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Rusalka review: The message fights with the music in this eco-conscious staging

Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee’s production of Dvorak’s fairytale opera is well cast but weighed down by its politics

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If we defund opera saying it is for toffs, then only the toffs will go. Where’s the sense in that?

It is painful to see our top companies starved of funds and strangled by politics, while our best artists head abroad, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

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Secret Things/ Everyone Keeps Me; Dance Me review – the glory of Pam Tanowitz

The American choreographer delights with a programme of rare wit, beauty and unshowy complexity. Elsewhere, a Vegas-style tribute to Leonard Cohen

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Tannhäuser; Isata Kanneh-Mason & Maxwell Quartet; Gesualdo Six: Secret Byrd

Majestic Lise Davidsen and Gerald Finley carry the Royal Opera’s illness-hit Wagner revival; Isata Kanneh-Mason and co shine; and in the shadows with William Byrd

The Guardian - UK

The Barber of Seville review – Payare’s perky Rossini makes this revival fizz

With rising newcomers such as Aigul Akhmetshina and veterans such as Bryn Terfel, this is an irresistible performance conducted with verve by Rafael Payare, in his ROH debut

The Guardian - UK

Quiet night for Royal Opera House as leading man loses voice

Stefan Vinke was unable to sing, so mimed

Evening Standard

Royal Opera House ends sponsorship relationship with BP after 33 years

Major move comes after numerous arts insitutions, from The Royal Shakespeare Company to the National Portrait Gallery, have cut their ties with the oil company

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BP sponsorship of Royal Opera House ends after 33 years

Move leaves British Museum and Science Museum isolated as arts institutions with fossil fuel sponsors

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Italy theatre cancels show by Putin-tattooed Russian dancer

An Italian theatre on Friday called off a show by a prominent Russian dancer who has three tattoos of President Vladimir Putin on his chest and shoulders, reacting to online protests over the artist's scheduled appearance.

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book for 2023

Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour

The Guardian - UK

The Magic Flute review – well-behaved revival needs more of Mozart’s anarchic spirit

There are strong performances, particularly from Gyula Orendt’s Papageno and Sarah Dufresne’s Papagena, but the fun is damped down in David McVicar’s 2003 staging that imposes coherence on the pantomimic plot

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The week in classical: Tosca; Gloriana review – made in Britain

The sensational Freddie De Tommaso soars alongside Natalya Romaniw in a catch-it-while-you-can Tosca

Evening Standard

Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House review: a crisp, sweet treat that’s never cloying

Show us a more festive production, we’ll wait

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Ruination review – you’ll laugh and cry at this ‘Christmas show’ Medea

Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonBen Duke brings fresh life to the classics again with deft movement between tragedy and comedy

The Independent UK

Ruination review, Royal Opera House: Medea gets a brilliant update through dance

With his company Lost Dog, choreographer Ben Duke mines humour and desperation from the darkest of Greek tragedies

The Guardian - UK

‘What’s the least Christmassy thing I can think of?’ Ben Duke on his festive Ruination

Lost Dog has a reputation for taking sideways looks at classic tales and taking them into unlikely spaces, but might an interrogation of the murderous Medea in the bowels of the Royal Opera House prove a step too far?

Evening Standard

ENO’s It’s a Wonderful Life star Danielle de Niese: ‘We need opera, we can’t just do Instagram and Tiktok’

The soprano on starring in an opera adaptation of the much-loved film, being at the ENO when its funding was cut and what it feels like on stage when audiences boo

Evening Standard

The Rape of Lucretia at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre review: a musical triumph

Contemporary resonances abound in this revival of Benjamin Britten’s opera

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