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Opera Essentials: Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011 The Story Begins… The young Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San agrees to marry B.F. Pinkerton, a dashing US Navy lieutenant. She believes that it is a marriage of love,...

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Mahagonny Musical Highlight: The Mandalay Song

Production photo of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny © ROH.Clive Barda 2015 Kurt Weill finished the score for Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in April 1929 – six months before the Wall...

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Madama Butterfly Musical Highlight: The Humming Chorus

Kristine Opolais as Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly © ROH/Mike Hoban, 2011 When Giacomo Puccini saw David Belasco’s play Madame Butterfly in London in 1900, he fell in love with the production. Belasco...

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Opera Essentials: Swanhunter

Image of the Swan of Devil's River from Opera North's Resource Pack for Swanhunter © Opera North The Story Begins The heroic (if rather arrogant) Lemminkäinen leaves his Mother to venture to the frozen...

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Il turco in Italia Musical Highlight: ‘D’un bell’uso in Turchio’

Alessandro Corbelli and lldebrando D'Arcangelo in Il turco in Italia, The Royal Opera © ROH/Clive Barda, 2010 Rossini was expert in making the ridiculous even more ridiculous. Take the nonsense plot of...

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Unmistakably English: Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée

Chickens and Cockerel in La Fille mal gardée © Bill Cooper On paper, Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée could come across as the most ordinary full-length work in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It...

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Ballet Essentials: Woolf Works

Alessandra Ferri and Edward Watson in rehearsal for Woolf Works, The Royal Ballet © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Andrej Uspenski Dancing with Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was an English writer and...

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Opera Essentials: The Virtues of Things

David Stout as Selby de Selby, Fiona Kimm as Ellipsis de Selby, Robyn Allegra Parton as Peg de Selby and Paul Curievici as Eames in The Virtues of Things, The Royal Opera © 2015 ROH. Photograph by...

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Król Roger Musical Highlight: Roxana’s Song

Georgia Jarman and Mariusz Kwiecień in Król Roger © ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper, 2015 Her voice, distant and unseen, comes out of nothing. Roxana sings offstage, a sweet, high, held note that slides...

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Verdi unpacked: A guide to the master of Italian opera

Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) was one of the great masters of Italian opera. His works redefined the genre through their character-driven intensity and taut dramatic structures. The sheer...

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Opera Essentials: Falstaff

Ambrogio Maestri in Falstaff, The Royal Opera © ROH/Catherine Ashmore, 2012 The Story Begins Old, large and lecherous, Sir John Falstaff can’t resist the ladies. But they can resist him, and three of...

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Falstaff musical highlight: ‘Sirena… quand’ero paggio del Duca di Norfolk’

Ambrogio Maestri as Falstaff © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2012 Verdi’s final masterpiece Falstaff is famous more for its seamless transitions between solo sections and ensembles than for its arias. Those...

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Dance Essentials: Whelan/Watson: Other Stories

Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson © Sean Malyon A Long Time Coming Dancers Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson say that they first came up with the idea of collaborating together around ten years ago, when...

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Saving the best until last: Our favourite operatic swansongs


The Last Hours of Mozart by Henry Nelson O'Neil, 1849. Image courtesy Wikicommons Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, 1791 Mozart’s final years were hobbled by debt, but he certainly wasn’t...

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Opera Essentials: Peter Pan

Ashley Holland in Keith Warner’s production of Peter Pan © WNO. Photograph by Clive Barda, 2015 The Story Begins… Peter Pan is a boy who refuses to grow up. When he loses his shadow, Wendy Darling...

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Opera Essentials: Orphée et Eurydice

The Story Begins… Orphée mourns the death of his beloved Eurydice. Amour tells him that if his singing can calm the Furies, he will be able to bring her back from the Underworld. But she warns Orphée...

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Orphée et Eurydice Musical Highlights: Dance of the Blessed Spirits and Dance...

Detail from 'Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld' by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1861. Image courtesy Wikicommons The Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Gluck’s opera Orphée et Eurydice is one...

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Le nozze di Figaro Musical Highlight: ‘Dove sono i bei momenti’

Mozart believed that although opera buffa was intrinsically comic it should feature serious characters and themes. Countess Almaviva is perhaps the most serious and complex character in Le nozze di...

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Ballet Essentials: Connectome and Raven Girl

Sarah Lamb and Artists of the Royal Ballet in Connectome, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Bill Cooper 2014 Connectome ‘I Am My Connectome’ Alastair Marriott’s Connectome is inspired in part by the theories of...

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Creating a Classic: How Kenneth MacMillan created Romeo and Juliet

Lynn Seymour as Juliet and Christopher Gable as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. © 1965 Roy Round When the Bolshoi Ballet first brought Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet to the Royal Opera House in 1956,...

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