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LaScalaTV Goes Free from 1 September
Teatro alla Scala’s streaming platform is dropping its paywall. From 1 September, every title in the LaScalaTV catalogue will be available for free.
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The Royal Opera – complete 2026-2027 Season
The complete presentation, calendar and production details of the full Royal Opera 2026-2027 Season.
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Royal Ballet and Opera announces 2025/26 Cinema Season
The Royal Ballet and Opera will bring nine productions from London to 1,500 cinema screens in 50 countries for 2025/26.
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La Scala presents its Opera Season 2025-2026
La Scala’s Opera Season 2025-2026 opens with Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Turandot to celebrate the centenary of the premiere La Scala.
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The Royal Opera 2025/26 Season
The Royal Opera 2025/26 Season with its new musical director, Jakub Hrůša, and 8 new productions.
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Interview with mezzo soprano Rihab Chaieb – from goths to Mozart, Tunisia to Glyndebourne – a life of contrast
Glyndebourne’s Carmen, Rihab Chaieb, gives an upfront interview about life and career so far – heavy metal, opera, and Arabic music, her dog and her voice.
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La Scala announces its 2024-2025 Opera Season
Full details – cast, creative team, conductor – of the 14 operas in La Scala’s 2024-2025 opera season, which opens with La forza del destino.
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The Royal Opera announces its 2024-2025 Season
The Royal Opera season 2024-2025 with presentation, casting, dates and a new name.
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La Scala Opera Season 2023-2024
The 2023-2024 Opera Season of the Teatro alla Scala will present 14 productions, 10 of which are new, with a predominantly Italian repertoire.
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Royal Opera House announces 2023-2024 opera and ballet Cinema Season
The Royal Opera House has announced its next Cinema Season with 13 productions, eight of which will be broadcast to screens around the world.
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[Review] The Met’s Medea – a tour de force performance from Radvanovsky
Jonathan Gray sees Sondra Radvanovsky’s “exciting, insightful, chilling, and terrifying” performance in the Met’s intelligent new production of Medea.
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The Met: Live at Home – new streaming platform makes opera simulcasts available at home
‘The Met: Live at Home’ is a new streaming platform for those who do not have access to participating cinemas for the Met’s Live in HD transmissions.
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Anna Netrebko withdraws from forthcoming engagements
Anna Netrebko has announced her decision to temporarily suspend her artistic activity and give up forthcoming engagements.
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Royal Opera House: new ballet and opera streams
Wayne McGregor’s Dante Project from tonight and five new releases from New Year’s Eve, including one LIVE broadcast.
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The Royal Opera House 2021-2022 opera season
The Royal Opera House announces its 2021/22 Season, the first full Season since 2019, opening on Monday 13 September.
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La Scala 2021-2022 Opera Season and new philosophy
La Scala 2021-2022 Opera Season will present 13 opera productions, nine are new productions. Plus recycling, women’s equality and lower prices.
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Verdi’s I masnadieri at La Scala is dark and wonderful in David McVicar’s exciting production
David McVicar‘s new production of I masnadieri (The Robbers) for La Scala features a monumental set by Charles Edwards which is modified during the opera, but largely remains the same, so there is a line of showers (functional) alongside a tomb and a series of tavern tables and benches all within the entrance hall of…
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La Scala, Milan: Opera and Recital Season 2018 – 2019
OPERA SEASON 2018 – 2019 La Scala announced its 2018-2019 Opera season today with 15 titles, nine of which are new productions, and two are La Scala premieres. At the heart of the season remains the Italian repertoire, continuing with the cycle of works of Verdi, Puccini, Verismo (which will return in 2020 with Giordano’s…
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Young mezzo Lilly Jørstad wins important grant from her ‘homeland’
Lilly Jørstad — the mezzo-soprano who was strangely considered ‘unsuitable’ to continue her studies at the La Scala Academy — has gone on to demonstrate what a bizarre decision that was. She has been called by the La Scala opera house several times to sing the lead role in their production of Cenerentola for children, Rosina (after her…
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Barbara Frittoli answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? From what I remember I’ve always sung: when I was seven I had emergency surgery for peritonitis and I sang throughout the operation. Why did you start singing? When I was nine I was accepted at the Milan Conservatory to study piano; choral singing was, and is,…
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Angela Gheorghiu reveals Alagna’s pathological jealousy of Kaufmann
I’m in love and happy. His name’s Mihai Ciortea and he’s Romanian like me. He’s good-looking, kind and very, very young. Angela Gheorghiu is talking about her new partner who is twenty-two years her junior and works as a dentist. He followed me everywhere in the theatres. We first met a couple of years ago…
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Rebecca Caine answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start singing? As a professional at 19 thanks to being chucked out of the Guildhall. I always sang as a child. Why did you start singing? I simply loved it. I grew up with no tv and only classical music played at home. My parents were wonderful at taking us to…
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Anna Netrebko talks after the opening of Anna Bolena: There’s so much hatred!
On Anna Bolena “It’s like nothing I’ve ever done before! You’re practically shouting in the lower register for half the opera. [Donizetti] wants that nasty, chesty voice — he wants it to sound uncomfortable!” “It’s asking so much of the nerves, the body, the emotion. There’s so much hatred! I never thought I could be…
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Critics Round-up: the Royal Opera’s Faust
Gounod’s Faust is, on the one hand, a gift for directors and performers – as Geoff Brown says in The Times, “It’s a Cecil B De Mille film directed by Bob Fosse, and Hell on Earth in more ways than one” – but it can often inspire productions so over the top with racy ideas and…
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