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Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, with a libretto by Greg Pierce, will return to the Met stage for eight performances. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Barber of Seville has a timeless magic: this is the production’s fourteenth revival, yet it still sparkles.

Rossini’s comedy is engaging, warm and witty in this revival of Jonathan Miller’s staging with Charles Rice’s Figaro dominating – as he should

The longstanding favourite is all very slick but, 37 years on, the production is showing its age

WE saw mums and dads from Cornwallis Road at Cowley celebrating the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 at a street party (Memory Lane, May 29)

|The Akhnaten director appears onstage with pianos, puppets, and an invisible Philip Glass. ||Off-Broadway|Avye Levantis,David Emmings,Fly Davis,Kirsty Housley,Peter Relton,Phelim McDermott,Philip Glass,Sarah Wright,Taoism

An exemplary revival brings David Alden’s 2018 Wagner production into sharp focus. And an overlooked contemporary of Mozart’s is celebrated by Errollyn Wallen

Lohengrin at The Royal Opera House – A Dystopian Saga for our times and a triumphant return of Wagner's swan epic to the Royal Opera House

Uneven casting for this first revival, but Jakub Hrůša shines at the podium. Opera review by Gavin Dixon

A revival of David Alden’s war-torn staging of Wagner’s early opera finds disturbing new resonance with current events; in the pit Jakub Hrůša has an unerring sense of the work’s structure