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  • Madame Butterfly opera is projected live on Times Square during the opening of the Metropolitan Opera 2006/07 season, Monday, Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)

    Tom Service on music
    double quotation markPopcorn with your Puccini: can opera on screen ever work?

    Tom Service
    Composers have harnessed TV and cinema since Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors pulled in five million viewers 75 years ago but for my money Kombat Opera’s satire showed us how to do it best
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    ‘It put me in a fever dream’: Philip Venables on turning Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis into a shocking opera

  • Ariadne, played by Jessica Cale, lies on a bed clutching a pillow tied with red string

    Opera review
    Ariadne/Dido and Aeneas – English Touring Opera conjures two strikingly different mythological worlds

  • Portrait of Jakub Hrusa at a piano

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  • Choristers in white robes holding lit candles sing inside St Paul's Cathedral

    double quotation markAbide with me: English choral music is a living part of our cultural heritage – we should cherish it

    Jonathan Davies
  • Mark Wigglesworth conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Wigglesworth review – phrasing with hospital corners

  • Performers from The Alonetimes hold hands dancing onstage with projected lyrics behind them

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  • Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano raises his arms, leading an orchestra in concert

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  • A black and white photograph shows Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing the violin and Fazıl Say the piano

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  • The Frankfurt Radio Symphony stand, each with their instrument, in a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows

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  • Portrait of Jakub Hrusa at a piano

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    ‘I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner

  • Composer Steve Reich, wearing glasses and a black cap, stands before bookshelves

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    ‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back

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