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The week in classical: Rusalka; The Rhinegold

Royal Opera’s new staging of Dvořák’s watery Rusalka finds fresh resonsances, while the ENO’s updated Ring cycle is really starting to shine ....

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The magical opera Rusalka performs at the Royal Opera House - let us hope it is here to stay

This was only the ninth Covent Garden performance of the most magical opera by that great melodist and orchestrator Antonin Dvorak - let us hope it is now here to stay. ....

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Rusalka, Royal Opera review – ravishing sounds, torpid staging

Fine musicianship undermined by too little meaning and motivation in the production. Opera review by David Nice ....

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Rusalka, Royal Opera, review: Dvorak 's rhapsodic music keeps the eco- sermonising in the background

Whether or not the score can fully bear the new meaning the Royal Opera's staging heaps upon it, it rings out gloriously ....

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If we defund opera saying it is for toffs, then only the toffs will go. Where's the sense in that? | Charlotte Higgins

It is painful to see our top companies starved of funds and strangled by politics, while our best artists head abroad, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins ....

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