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Opera

September 2026

  • Tom Service

    Tom Service on music
    double quotation markStart spreading the news… New York’s opera giveaway shows UK politicians how to be brave

    Tom Service
  • Sébastien Dutrieux, Audrey Bonnet and Lukáš Vasilek pose together for a portrait

    Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher album review – faultless recording of an eclectic masterpiece

  • Portrait of Jakub Hrusa at a piano

    ‘I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner

  • Christine Rice as Judith, wearing a blood-splattered wedding dress and Nathan Berg as Bluebeard, holding her arms in Welsh National Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle.

    Bluebeard’s Castle/Oedipus Rex review – gory, gruesome and gripping double bill

  • Henry Herford obituary

  • Alcina review – Handel’s opera of sex and sorcery comes alive in vivid staging

  • The lion, the witch and the warblers: behind the scenes of Handel’s Alcina at the RBO – in pictures

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  • Ileana Cotrubas obituary

  • Don Giovanni review – reality recedes in visually dizzying Mozart tour de force

  • Our Eyes Looking for God review – exploring the Black British experience in rap, reggae and arias

  • Lise Davidsen: Verdi album review – star soprano gives opera’s leading ladies radiant power and vulnerability

  • The Excursions of Mr Brouček review – Rattle’s illuminating touch lets Janáček’s sozzled antihero soar

August 2026

  • Portrait of Jill gomez

    Jill Gomez obituary

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    A day in the life
    ‘When I make a sale, I’ll sing a high note’: a day in the life of an opera singing car salesman

  • Julian Clary in dramatic makeup and a sequinned jacket holds a glittery red telephone to his ear

    Now I’ve seen everything! A wild ride through the Edinburgh festival 2026 – in pictures

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  • A conductor with raises a baton while conducting an orchestra on stage

    The Song of Hiawatha review – Rafael Payare reveals the riches of Coleridge-Taylor’s hit cantata

  • Aigul Akhmetshina: Mujer Fatal album review – classy and sensual in music from Bizet to Britten and Bernstein

  • The Rake’s Progress review – a young cast packed with promise do Stravinsky’s dance with the devil proud

  • We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House

  • The Galloping Cure review – powerful new opera tackles the opioid crisis with bite and black comedy

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