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Expect solace and harmony as Sir Andrew Davis conducts Faure’s Requiem at a Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) Remembrance Day performance.

No potions needed to love this uplifting and entertaining operatic comedy. Opera review by Miranda Heggie

Glimpsing the state of the nation at Glyndebourne, just not as you might expect | Culture

If you have never been to an opera before, Donizettis Lelisir damore is the perfect way to start, as long as you like humour and musicals. Almost any comic opera is just a very good musical, with music all the way through instead of alternating speech and songs, though with better music and better singing.

TULLY POTTER: Booked for the last four performances of LElisir dAmore, in the key role of Nemorino, Matteo Desole ended up having to sing all 14 - and scored a triumph on the first night.

The season begins in September with a new production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” set in 1940s California and led by an Asian-American creative team.

An exquisite and subtle Handel feast focusing on his early Roman works. Classical music review by David Nice

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The raw, ravishing power of four solo cantatas is taken to the next level at the London Handel festival, while young star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason works overtime

Incandescent, subversive celebration of doomed love. Opera review by Rachel Halliburton