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Performer: David Kempster

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Jonathan Miller’s Rigoletto, Godfather of opera productions, returns

Weston Hurt (Rigoletto) and David Kempster (Monterone) © Tristram Kenton
Jonathan Miller’s game-changing mafioso setting of Rigoletto returns to the Coliseum, vividly conducted by Richard Farnes. 
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Nagasaki comes to Bedfordshire

Welsh National Opera brings its 1978 production of Madama Butterfly to Milton Keynes.  
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A sweepingly romantic evening with the Ulster Orchestra

Giselle Allen and David Kempster are on good form in a performance of highlights from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, conducted by Jac van Steen.
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Don Giovanni in a new adaptation by Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle's new translation is ingenious more often than incongruous; John Molloy's Leporello steals the show in the Opera Theatre's Don Giovanni.
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Cav & Pag: a nostalgia trip for Welsh National Opera

Welsh National Opera may have reached the ripe old age of seventy but it's very much alive and kicking.
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Jaho and Larsson break hearts, Gallo and Hurrell mend them

A blistering performance of Suor Angelica is the highlight of this strongly performed revival of Richard Jones' 2011 production.
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