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Poet, Priest, Adventurer
2 Jul 2020Biographer, translator and critic Anthony Holden explores the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, co-creator of Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte.
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Music of midsummer
24 Jun 2020Editor of Opera magazine, and a son of the southern hemisphere, John Allison surveys music that celebrates the summer solstice, from Mendelssohn and Wagner to Britten and Tippett.
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Something wicked
18 Jun 2020Anna Picard surveys opera’s long fascination with the supernatural from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo to Brett Dean’s Hamlet, via Mozart, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Britten.
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A Question of Taste
10 Jun 2020Anna Picard explores the connection between haute cuisine, nursery food and opera, uncovering some tasty morsels from Rossini and wine recommendations from Mozart and Samuel Barber.
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Alone and not alone
4 Jun 2020Robert Thicknesse explores the idea of solitude in opera. From Handel’s Theodora to Beethoven’s Fidelio, he surveys the music that reveals the human condition at its most vulnerable.
A breath of fresh air: Announcing our 2021 Season
2 Jun 2020Our 2021 Season with resident orchestra City of London Sinfonia will open on 1 June with new productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz, and a revival of the company’s celebrated 2018 staging of Verdi’s La traviata.
