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Searching for The Cunning Little Vixen
The idea of looking for foxes must strike Londoners as a little strange. Every evening as I walk home I see our vulpine neighbour scavenging in the bins, leaving half-eaten detritus in his or her wake....
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Our favourite doomed operatic parties
The cast of Don Giovanni © ROH / Bill Cooper 2014 When Riccardo, the hero of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, is warned that someone will kill him at his masked ball, he really should take heed. For one...
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From Moscow to Peking via Nuremburg: how opera uses folk music
The cast of Turandot © ROH/Tristram Kenton, 2013 Traditional music has always featured in classical works, from ballad opera’s popular songs to the Croatian tunes in Haydn’s string quartets. But it was...
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