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10 days ago

What links My Fair Lady, Boy on a Dolphin and West Side Story? The Saturday quiz ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what?
2 Which tree is described by t…

19 days ago

With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become …

Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Luisi/Lindstrom/Delavan /Johansson
(Delos)
Captured live in concert performances, Fabio Luisi’s clear-sighted command and strong orchestral playing make this Wagner set freque…

41 days ago

Opera needs big money: opera chiefs need big donors. New York’s Metropolitan Opera has just lost a $200m investment, but should it have accepted it in the first place?

Opera’s stories of power aren’t …

42 days ago

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56 days ago

‘We want people on the edge of their seats’: Royal Opera boss Oliver Mears on the new season – and the controversies of the last ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Wagnerites rejoice! Parsifal and the climax of Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed Ring cycle are in the pipeline. The director of opera talks about scoring a bullseye, the storms that rocked last season – and …

86 days ago

The Austrian tenor is making his Royal Opera debut as Siegfried in the third instalment of of the Ring Cycle. He explains why operetta prepared him for the opera’s epic demands, and why Wagner’s lout…

88 days ago

Tinariwen went from Saharan weddings to Grammy-winning acclaim – but violence has forced the desert blues masters into exile. Now, a new generation is stepping in to help

Since their formation in 1979…

3 months ago

(Decca)
Davidsen/Baillieu
Recorded in New York in 2023, the soprano sings Strauss, Wagner, Grieg and more to thrilling effect, her sincerity and passion matched perfectly on piano

Lise Davidsen and Jame…

Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

European Chamber Orchestra/Harnoncourt/Urmana
(Sony)
This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta U…

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