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Manchester Camerata presents mindfulness in turmoil at Kings Place

Rosie Middleton in Eight Songs for a Mad King © Kings Place | Viktor Erik Emanuel
All praise should be heaped on Rosie Middleton for her brave evocation and the vocal prowess of her performance in Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King
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Trapped in a vice: Il segreto di Susanna and Pagliacci at OHP

David Butt Philip (Canio) © Ali Wright
Joining OHP's 2019 production of Wolf-Ferrari's charming domestic comedy, a blazing new production of Pagliacci delivers everything that one could want from Leoncavallo's infamous opera. 
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Precipice at The Grange Festival: a mirror of our times

Michael Chance takes the audience around The Grange in a thoughtful show combining opera excerpts, dance, acrobats, vocal and instrumental music.
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A sparkling Seraglio from English Touring Opera

English Touring Opera open their autumn season with the first of two Singspiels. 
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Wolf-Ferrari entertains, Tchaikovsky bewitches at Holland Park

Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna provides an airy bon-bouche to Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, brilliantly sung by Natalya Romaniw and David Butt Philip and conducted to fairy-tale perfection by Sian Edwards
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An uneven Elisabetta from English Touring Opera

Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra is a hard work to love and English Touring Opera's new production which launched at the Hackney Empire Theatre struggled to make a case for regular outings.
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