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Monumental Messa da Requiem opens Glasshouse Theatre

After a life-changing experience seeing Verdi's Messa da Requiem, a Queenslander has found herself on stage for the first big production at Glasshouse Theatre.

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Rigoletto review – strong revival of Mears’s violent take, with Elder revelatory in the pit

There is a touch of the Tony Sopranos about George Petean’s Rigoletto, in Oliver Mears’ 2021 staging that evokes a world of privilege, misogyny and abuse. Aida Garifullina is a convincing and elegant Gilda

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Met Opera slashes season to lowest in 60 years amid financial strain

The Metropolitan Opera cut back its 2026-27 season due to a tight budget, even as ticket sales improved slightly

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Pene Pati rises from doubted Samoan singer to one of Opera's most-watched new stars

Tenor Pene Pati has emerged from a childhood in Samoa and New Zealand to become one of opera’s most-watched new stars

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Snippets? Apps? Visuals? Why classical music should stop trying to be pop

Classical music’s blessing is also its curse: you’ve simply got to pay it attention. Plus: No wonder Rossini was an Olympics hit – he invented disco

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Ryan Coogler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rose Byrne, Diane Warren react to Oscar nominations

Director Ryan Coogler spoke about writing “Sinners,” nominated for a record 16 nominations, for his late uncle

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Royal Opera sees generation change as Jakub Hrůša and Speranza Scappucci come in

The Royal Opera in London is embracing a new era with Jakub Hrůša as music director and Speranza Scappucci as principal guest conductor

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The Sicilian Vespers at the Royal Ballet and Opera House review: Joyce El-Khoury is outstanding

4/5 Daniel Dooner’s revival of the Stefan Herheim production of Verdi’s opera is a timely call to stand up to tyranny

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Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo revives Verdi's 'Macbeth' with period instruments

Verdi can be played on original instruments, too

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Met Opera attendance dropped in spring as tourism fell, coinciding with immigration crackdown

Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped slightly following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown that coincided with a decrease in tourists to New York

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Simon Boccanegra review – Opera North’s staging of Verdi’s knotty score is a brooding triumph

The Leeds-based company stages Verdi’s dense political drama with a no-frills set-up that sees a stand-out performance from debut soprano Sara Cortolezzis

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The Guardian view on the meaning of life: Easter and the ultimate question

Editorial: From Verdi to Douglas Adams, artists and writers have wrestled with why we are here. The Christian festival gives us pause to reflect

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Soprano Anna Netrebko to open Royal Opera season, returning after a 6-year absence

Soprano Anna Netrebko will return to London’s Royal Opera after a six-year absence to open the 2025-26 season in a new production of Puccini’s “Tosca” that starts Jakub Hrůša’s tenure as music director

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Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen to release new opera recording while awaiting birth of twins

Lise Davidsen, one of opera’s biggest names, is preparing to leave the stage for a few months to give birth and spend time with twins

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The week in classical: Il Trovatore; Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics; Mad Song; Jerusalem Quartet – review

A fearless Agnieszka Rehlis leads a Verdi revival that will leave you rattled, while an electroacoustic extravaganza dives into tech and a viola steals the show in a Shostakovich celebration

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Il Trovatore review – let’s face it: these Verdi characters are very dull

With demons ripped from Where the Wild Things Are and costumes culled from Paddington, this is a rum reworking – just a shame some of the singing and conducting lack zip

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Met Opera to double cast Verdi and Puccini, as well as shift contemporary works from Saturdays

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the company’s finances

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Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died

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The week in classical: Aida; Chineke!; Paddington Trio – review

The Royal Opera Chorus steals the show in a revival of Robert Carsen’s solemn take on Verdi; Chineke! celebrate 10 years of change-making. Plus, a great young string trio who live every note

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Aida review – parades and totalitarianism rather than pyramids and triumphal marches

Royal Opera House, LondonRobert Carsen’s abstract 2022 production of Verdi’s controversial opera has no trace of its Egyptian setting which brings a schism between staging and score

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Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem album review – a sense of special occasion, all concerned believe in it

Hollywood royalty in the shape of Meryl Streep, and the soaring soprano of Anna Prohaska lend authenticity to Wainwright’s expressive eulogy to human loss

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Soprano Angel Blue sings her first Metropolitan Opera 'Aida' in a new production

Angel Blue, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s “Aida” in 36 years

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La Scala's gala premiere is a Verdi opera with a reputation for bringing bad luck

Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala presents Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” for its gala season premiere Saturday for the first time in 59 years, seeking to shake the opera's reputation for bringing bad luck

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American tenor Brian Jagde gets last-minute call to sing in La Scala's gala season premiere

American tenor Brian Jagde was just wrapping up Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” in Barcelona last month when he got a very much last-minute offer to sing the same role in La Scala’s gala season premiere this Saturday, arguably the opera world’s most prestigious gig

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The Pirates of Penzance review – not modern nor general but major fun in revival of Mike Leigh’s trad staging

Gilbert & Sullivan stalwarts Richard Suart and John Savourin ensure that English National Opera’s staging buckles your swashes; and, as apprentice pirate Frederic, William Morgan is genuinely funny

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