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The Magic Flute review – well-behaved revival needs more of Mozart’s anarchic spirit

There are strong performances, particularly from Gyula Orendt’s Papageno and Sarah Dufresne’s Papagena, but the fun is damped down in David McVicar’s 2003 staging that imposes coherence on the pantomimic plot

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Tosca; Gloriana review – made in Britain

The sensational Freddie De Tommaso soars alongside Natalya Romaniw in a catch-it-while-you-can Tosca

The Guardian - UK

Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House review: a crisp, sweet treat that’s never cloying

Show us a more festive production, we’ll wait

Evening Standard

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Ruination review – you’ll laugh and cry at this ‘Christmas show’ Medea

Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonBen Duke brings fresh life to the classics again with deft movement between tragedy and comedy

The Guardian - UK

Ruination review, Royal Opera House: Medea gets a brilliant update through dance

With his company Lost Dog, choreographer Ben Duke mines humour and desperation from the darkest of Greek tragedies

The Independent UK

‘What’s the least Christmassy thing I can think of?’ Ben Duke on his festive Ruination

Lost Dog has a reputation for taking sideways looks at classic tales and taking them into unlikely spaces, but might an interrogation of the murderous Medea in the bowels of the Royal Opera House prove a step too far?

The Guardian - UK

ENO’s It’s a Wonderful Life star Danielle de Niese: ‘We need opera, we can’t just do Instagram and Tiktok’

The soprano on starring in an opera adaptation of the much-loved film, being at the ENO when its funding was cut and what it feels like on stage when audiences boo

Evening Standard

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The Rape of Lucretia at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre review: a musical triumph

Contemporary resonances abound in this revival of Benjamin Britten’s opera

Evening Standard

Key funding from the Arts Council England helps to 'transform lives' at the Liverpool Philharmonic

The Shakespeare North Trust has been also funded

Liverpool Echo

ENO mounts fightback against edict to leave London

Singer Bryn Terfel starts petition after arts council removes English National Opera’s funding unless it moves

The Guardian - UK

Arts Council cuts: the problems with 'levelling up' through culture

Questions about the politics of support for the arts have always been fraught and the recent announcement about Arts Council England’s latest funding round is no exception. At the heart of the current controversy is the movement of millions of pounds away from key London organisations to the regions. This…

The Conversation

Royal Opera House heckler who booed 12-year-old singer is banned for life

Members of the audience shushed the heckler who left soon afterwards and gave schoolboy Malakai M Bayoh an ovation as he finished

Evening Standard

Alcina at the Royal Opera House review: spellbinding and unmissable

An endlessly inventive staging of Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera

Evening Standard

Black child actor heckled and booed during Royal Opera House performance of Alcina

Venue has ‘taken steps’ to ensure that the disruptive audience member will not return

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English National Opera could move to Manchester as arts funding is diverted away from London

The prestigious national institution said it was considering moving its headquarters to the city

The Guardian - UK

Beryl Goldwyn obituary

Dancer who was able to capture the essence of Romantic ballet and was also impressive in more modern works

The Guardian - UK

Royal Opera House announces Jakub Hrůša as its new music director

The Czech-born conductor will take over from Antonio Pappano in 2025. He talks exclusively to the Guardian about what shape the opera house will take under his musical leadership

Evening Standard

La Bohème at the Royal Opera House review: Juan Diego Flórez is still kicking to score

The Peruvian tenor and his co-star Ailyn Pérez get it right every time in this well-loved, if overbearing, staging

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The Guardian - UK

Sex, drugs and pas de deux: how Mayerling’s flame keeps burning

As Kenneth MacMillan’s classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson – celebrated for dancing the lead role – reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet

The Independent UK

Best hotels in Covent Garden: Where to stay in London’s tourism hub, for business trips and luxury breaks

Whatever your reason for staying in the capital’s delightful culture hub, there’s a hotel for you. Here’s our pick of the very best

The Guardian - UK

Thank Ed Miliband for bringing the Royal Ballet to Doncaster

Letter: Sheila Cross praises the MP for encouraging a partnership between the Royal Opera House, Doncaster council and the Cast theatre, and improving access to the arts for children

The Guardian - UK

Scramble for new royal figureheads begins among Britain’s arts organisations

Britain’s creative institutions are poised to compete for the most familiar faces to act as patrons – and maximise potential funding

The Guardian - UK

Salome review – lethal desires and emotional extremism

Alexander Soddy made an auspicious Royal Opera debut with his wonderful conducting of this revival of David McVicar’s staging: a tragedy of horrifying power

Evening Standard

London Theatre Week: London's best restaurants for a pre-and post-theatre meal

Here’s where to find food worthy of a standing ovation, picked by Ben McCormack and Josh Barrie

The Guardian - UK

Otello review – a truly compelling and long overdue revival

American tenor Russell Thomas – the first black man to sing the title role at Covent Garden – delivers a searing and shattering performance

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