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Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci – the most famous opera double act there…

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Welsh National Opera called at Bristol Hippodrome last week; the penultimate venue on their UK…

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The grandiose architecture of The Grange was a fitting place to stage this new operatic…

There is some irony in the fact that women are totally disenfranchised in the court…

I love Opera Holland Park. Let’s get that out of the way up front. The…

Holland Park Opera have just revived Olivia Fuchs’s hugely successful 2009 production of Leoš Janáček’s…

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