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Performer: Clare Presland

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Fun, if not quite fizzy: Liam Steel’s Opera Holland Park Fledermaus

Alison Langer (Rosalinde) and Thomas Atkins (Eisenstein) © Craig Fuller
It's New Year’s Eve 1929-style, but the Champagne is a touch warm in OHP's first production of Strauss’ most popular operetta, Die Fledermaus
***11
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Glyndebourne’s iconic Dream approaches its century

Nils Wanderer (Oberon) and Jennifer France (Tytania) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Tristram Kenton
Sir Peter Hall's classic staging of Britten's Shakespearean comedy nears a landmark moment in Glyndebourne’s autumn season. 
****1
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Black comedy of the highest order: Festen at The Royal Opera

Allan Clayton (Christian) © RBO | Marc Brenner
Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg's tale of abuse provides rich entertainment even as it shocks.
*****
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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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Prom 36: the LPO play music from 2001: A Space Odyssey

Edward Gardner © BBC Proms | Mark Allan
Edward Gardner conducts the LPO in a shrewdly conceived programme of Ligeti and Strauss.
****1
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Korngold's extravagant opera The Dead City staged in style by ENO

William Morgan, Clare Presland, Lauren Bridle. Rhian Lois and Innocent Masuku © Helen Murray
Annilese Miskimmon directs a the first ever production by ENO of Erich Korngold's tale of bereavement, grief and the poisonous impact of lost love on an obsessive mind. 
****1
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