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One from the heart by Robert Thicknesse

The great innovator Gioachino Rossini forsook his usual irony in his most sincere opera, La Cenerentola, writes Robert Thicknesse.

Die Fledermaus

Adrian Mourby explores the creation of Vienna's Ringstrasse, the new urban landscape that inspired Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus.

Mascagni’s Hybrid Flower by Ditlev Rindom

Innocence and modernity collide in a fantasy of Japan from the fin-de-siècle, Iris, writes Ditlev Rindom.

Alice relaxed

Verdi’s Daughters by Adrian Mourby

Fathers and their missing daughters is a theme that runs readily through Verdi's operas, writes Adrian Mourby.

Orientalism and the triumph of the coloratura by Antony Lias

Antony Lias discusses the omnipresent orientalism in Delibes's Lakmé