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‘Goodness Triumphant’ is the subtitle of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and you’d better believe he delivers. It’s the sweetest thing imaginable; true, the stepsisters are awful, but their spite bubbles over in streams of such sunny major-key effervescence that it’s hard to hold it against them. As for their father Don Magnifico, you can’t seriously hiss

Lightning sometimes strikes twice. English Touring Opera hit topical gold last spring when, wholly by coincidence, they found themselves touring with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian anti-war satire The Golden Cockerel. Now the company’s general director Robin Norton-Hale insists that their current tour of Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims – written in 1825 to celebrate the coronation of

CCPS Officials Approve Concealed Weapons Detection System

MONUMENT • The local VFW Auxiliary recently announced the young winners of its contests.

Members of the English Touring Opera paid a much-welcomed visit to Bath’s Theatre Royal to perform two contemporaneous operas that could hardly be…

Members of the English Touring Opera paid a much-welcomed visit to Bath’s Theatre Royal to perform two contemporaneous operas that could hardly be…

In this rare Rimsky-Korsakov opera, a dozy tsar orders a pre-emptive strike against a threatening neighbour. It makes a very awkward evening

Rimsky-Korsakov’s portrait of a paranoid king obsessed with imaginary enemies maps on to the current war in Ukraine with disquieting prescience<br>

Rimsky-Korsakov’s delightful but rarely performed final opera, The Golden Cockerel, containing some of the most gorgeously melodious music you will ever hear.

It’s a turkey, but Rimsky-Korsakov is not to blame. Opera review by David Nice