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An impressively magical Magic Flute – a great time of the year for Mozart’s opera

Posted: January 13, 2023 at 9:16 pm   /   Music

Mozart’s Magic Flute is the perfect opera to stage around this time of the year. Its bizarre plot embeds a love story into a mystical quest, with a ludicrous birdcatcher character adding a strong comic element that all gives a feeling of pantomime. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Pavarotti and Queen: WATCH opera legend perform with Brian May and Roger Taylor

Posted: September 6, 2022 at 10:16 pm   /   Music

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI, who died 15 years ago, once performed with Brian May and Roger Taylor in a stunning rendition of Two Much Love Will Kill You followed by Radio Ga Ga. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Andrew Bocelli health: Opera singer’s life-changing health condition – symptoms

Posted: November 24, 2019 at 9:22 am   /   Health

ANDREW BOCELLI is a towering figure in the world of opera, having earned numerous accolades for his musical accomplishments over the years. What people may not know is that he was born with a debilitating eye condition – what is it? Daily Express :: Health Feed

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Opera review: Cosi Fan Tutte at the Nevill Holt Opera

Posted: July 2, 2019 at 10:16 pm   /   Music

THE Hamlet of Nevill Holt outside Market Harborough in Leicestershire is the location of one of the latest additions to Britain’s slowly growing number of opera festivals offering glorious music in spectacular surroundings. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Cruise ship MSC Opera smashes into Venice dock leaving at least five injured – watch video

Posted: June 2, 2019 at 10:22 pm   /   Travel

CRUISE ship passengers were left horrified with at least five injured, as their vessel plunged into a dock in Venice. Tourists were seen fleeing the scene at the Giudecca canal in Italy. Daily Express :: Travel Feed

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OPERA REVIEW: Das Rheingold and Die Walküre

Posted: September 30, 2018 at 10:16 am   /   Music

KEITH Warner’s staging of Wagner’s mighty Der Ring Des Nibelungen has rolled into the Royal Opera House in four complete Ring Cycles that will last into November. His Das Rheingold, first seen in 2004, opens the saga of how the gods destroyed themselves in their pursuit of power and riches. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Opera Review: London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle and Opening Season for New Linbury Theatre

Posted: September 23, 2018 at 10:16 am   /   Music

AS THE opener to his second season as music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle offered a challenging programme of British music. It began with the world premiere of a fanfare by Harrison Birtwistle – Donum Simoni MMXVIII – a contest of trumpets, trombones and tuba. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Opera review: Verbier Festival 2018 25th Anniversary Gala

Posted: August 5, 2018 at 10:16 am   /   Music

THE Swiss ski resort of Verbier sees a complete change of scene each summer. A firm favourite with the younger British royals for its challenging pistes and lively après-ski, it is reputedly a luxury resort for celebratory skiers in winter. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Opera Review: Ariadne Auf Naxos at Opera Holland Park

Posted: July 26, 2018 at 10:17 pm   /   Music

OPERA Holland Park’s final offering of the season is also its first Richard Strauss. Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera within an opera and director / designer Antony McDonald has achieved a clever amalgam of the two parts in a stylish and wickedly funny staging that ends fittingly in a fireworks display. Daily Express :: […]

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Opera Review: Romeo et Juliette, The Abduction and La Bohème

Posted: July 1, 2018 at 10:16 am   /   Music

TWO WHITE coffins surrounded by black-clad mourners during the overture of Patrick Mason’s staging of Romeo Et Juliette reveal what we already know of the young lovers’ fate. The suitably dramatic scene updates the tale from Renaissance Italy to the Fascist 1930s where the feuding Veronese families are blackshirt Capulets and anarchic Montagues. Daily Express […]

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