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AlUla comes to life with the sound of the Paris National Opera for launch of Villa Hegra

Bayerische Staatsoper's new bawdy slapstick production of Le nozze di Figaro – Seen and Heard International

Opinion | Opera censorship provokes tough questions

Vincent Huguet's admirably sung Berlin Don Giovanni has an air of missed opportunity – Seen and Heard International

First Person: the Bayerische Staatsorchester's Managing Director Guido Gärtner on its 500th anniversary

Sonya Yoncheva excels in Médée at Staatsoper Unter den Linden – Seen and Heard International

LPO/Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett Dean's premiere showed royals at each other's throats (again)

This new work by the orchestra’s composer-in-residence oscillated between the dramatic and the contemplative

LPO/Gardner review — Brett Dean's queenly new opera unveiled

The huge success of Brett Dean’s opera Hamlet has clearly given him the confidence to keep tackling familiar stories. At the end of his tenure as composer in residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra he unveiled a substantial work, In spe contra spem (Hope against hope), a “concertante extract” from a planned opera.

Bell, Dreisig, LPO, Gardner, RFH review – royal rifts, and uplifting Mahler

Brett Dean's warring queens give way to a bracing symphonic journey through struggle to serenity. Classical music review by Boyd Tonkin

LPO/Gardner review – Brett Dean provides tantalising prelude to cool Mahler

World premiere of this extract from Dean’s ‘planned opera’ was full of vivid colour and ear-catching textures. The Mahler that followed was stylish and unsentimental<strong><br><br></strong>