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Puccini’s work set in the Gold Rush of California is a high risk opening to Opera Holland Park’s season
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This winning reworking of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is suffused with energy
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Soloist Yunchan Lim brought the swing to this captivating blend of orchestra and piano
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It made for a fine climax to its conductor’s distinguished tenure
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The first opera may outstay it’s welcome somewhat but the second is frighteningly intense and winningly lyrical

If orchestras were football teams, the LSO would certainly be in the running for the Premier League title

Beyond the jumble of ideas, this is a thoughtful production of Stravinski’s opera

The artist has been obsessed with the singer since girlhood, this is her homage

This was the Brodskys at their most conversational, the music angrily bickering one moment, drivingly rhythmic the next

With this much wit and excellent performances, this new production will likely tighten up over the course of its tour

Barbara Hannigan is a supremely mobile conductor, at times almost dancing, her hands shaping the music like a sculptor

On Tuesday the Canadian singer celebrated 20 years of album Want One with an ecstatic Royal Albert Hall audience

Musical standards are high, but Da Silva’s staging strives for a relevance not always achieved

Lapwood deployed the organ’s entire range, from the merest whisper to stadium-rock pomp at full volume

This took well-worn music and made it fresh – no mean achievement

The performance of three cantatas by forgotten French composer Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, once a favourite of Louis XIV, was welcome

It all built to a crowd-pleasing finale and a work out for the musicians

Adele Thomas’s new production tries hard not to be decorous, but doesn’t hang together

From Portuguese Fado to the Rite of Spring played from memory, a Horrible Histories opera and a tribute to a Bollywood legend, there’s something for everyone

From Mozart to Star Wars, the New York-based quartet gave it their all

Both sombre and hopeful, Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony echoed the mood at the embattled ENO