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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Alcina - What They Never Told You

Handel: Alcina album review – Magdalena Kožená is a tour de force

Keeping the emotion foremost while relishing the shape of the music, Kožená has great support from Erin Morley and Elizabeth DeShong

The Guardian - UK

Britain's Got Talent viewers recognise Golden Buzzer act Malakai Bayoh from duet with famous star

Fans of the show were quick to spot that Golden Buzzer winner Malakai Bayoh had duetted with Aled Jones, as well as performed at the Royal Opera House

Chronicle Live

BGT's Malakai Bayoh secures Golden Buzzer as fans recognise him from duet with huge star

Malakai Bayoh found himself heading straight to the Britain's Got Talent semi-finals after Simon Cowell pressed his Golden Buzzer, but he is already a big name on the opera circuit, having sung with Aled Jones

Daily Mirror

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Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Yeomen of the Guard; Alcina – music under siege

ENO stands firm amid extreme funding cuts with a Gilbert and Sullivan staging full of vim and vigour, while animal magic ripples through Richard Jones’s new Alcina

The Guardian - UK

Royal Opera House bans heckler for life after he shouted ‘rubbish’ at child singer

The incident occurred while Malakai M Bayoh, 12, was singing on the opening night of Handel’s Alcina on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Alcina at the Royal Opera House review: spellbinding and unmissable

An endlessly inventive staging of Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera

Evening Standard

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The week in classical: Alcina; The Blue Woman

Handel’s sorceress goes to the cabaret in Francesco Micheli’s fabulously glitzy production, while Katie Mitchell directs a powerful exploration of violence against women

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Alcina; Bajazet; Pavel Kolesnikov – review

In a tale of two 1735 works, Opera North miss a trick on Handel’s fantasy island while Irish National Opera explore every sizzling note of Vivaldi

The Guardian - UK

Alcina review – Opera North clear clutter but there’s not enough magic on this enchanted isle

Handel’s opera is full of glorious music but its improbable plot makes it difficult to stage; Tim Albery’s intelligent production only fitfully succeeds

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