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The Guardian view on the class crisis in the arts: the UK’s culture must not become the preserve of the elite

Editorial: Countless reports and celebrities have called for greater working-class representation, so why has nothing changed?

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‘We have permission to be brave’: the women taking charge of crisis-hit Welsh National Opera

Adele Thomas and Sarah Crabtree took up their positions as joint heads of WNO in January after brutal funding cuts. But they are confident their pared-down operation will still offer ‘an electric night out’

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Rigoletto review – dark and daring take on Verdi’s depraved tale

With the Welsh National Opera on the ropes from funding cuts this is a defiantly non-safe staging with a fine cast and the orchestra and chorus on exceptionally strong form

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The week in classical: Itch; Semele; Prom 16: Hallé/Elder – review

Jonathan Dove transforms Simon Mayo’s ripping yarn into an exhilarating instant classic; it’s Thebes by way of Port Talbot in Adele Thomas’s Glyndebourne debut; and all hail the Hallé

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Semele review – outstanding mezzos enliven dour take on Handel’s tale of desire

Joélle Harvey and Jennifer Johnston are ravishing, and the chorus sensational, but Adele Thomas’s staging feels neither funny nor erotic enough for what is essentially a barbed Restoration comedy

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Semele at Glyndebourne review: a fresh angle on the incendiary story

Director Adele Thomas invites us to look at the myth in a different way

Evening Standard

Il trovatore; The Planets; Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed at the Orchestra review – from Bosch to Bash Street

Spellbinding Jamie Barton and company excel in Adele Thomas’s clear-sighted take on volatile Verdi; to the final frontier via Peckham; and kazoos at the ready for a Beano Concerto

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Il trovatore review – cruelty played out with anarchic imagination

Adele Thomas’s visually arresting production mixes levity with tragedy, as fervent orchestral play is matched by expressive singing from a fine cast

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Director Adele Thomas: ‘In theatre, you need a private income just to live’

The theatre and opera director on how her working-class Welsh background informs her work, the strangeness of Il trovatore, and her eclectic running playlist

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The week in classical: In the Realms of Sorrow; Alexander’s Feast; Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Bloch – review

The raw, ravishing power of four solo cantatas is taken to the next level at the London Handel festival, while young star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason works overtime

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Bajazet review – Vivaldi finally gets his London premiere

Vivaldi wrote 90 operas but this is the first of his works to be staged at the ROH; Adele Thomas’s engaging production makes a strong case for this to be first of many

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