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Recommended recordings May 2013: New releases in the ROH Shop
Sir Colin Davis As part of our monthly series of recommended recordings from the Royal Opera House Shop, this month we take a look at releases from two great singers and a conductor with strong...
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Musical Highlight: 'Pour me rapprocher Marie' from La Fille du régiment
Juan Diego Flórez in La fille du régiment © Bill Cooper The astoundingly virtuoso role of Tonio in Donizetti's full-of-beans comedy La Fille du régiment is probably best known for the Act I aria 'Ah,...
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Border Control: La Fille du régiment's influence on Italian opera
Alan Opie and Patrizia Ciofi in La Fille du régiment, The Royal Opera © ROH/Bill Cooper, 2012 The autumn of 1840 was a difficult season for opera buffa at La Scala, Milan. On 5 September, the audience...
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Andrea Chénier Musical Highlight: The Improvviso
The Royal Opera's Andrea Chénier © ROH 2014 Italian opera of the fin de siècle is characterized by dramatic, fast-paced action. But there are also more lyrical sections, which provide us with an...
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ROH Collections Item of the Month: Donald Southern’s starry photographs of La...
Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo and Kiri Te Kanawa as Mimì in La bohème, The Royal Opera, 1976 © ROH. Photograph by Donald Southern ROH Collections is home to thousands of photographs by Donald Southern....
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Watch: John Copley on La bohème - ‘It was the first proper opera I’d seen and...
La bohème © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper John Copley is joined by BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny in the ROH’s Clore Studio to discuss the first time he heard Puccini’s heart-breaking...
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What are your first memories of opera?
Anna Caterina Antonacci and Jonas Kaufmann in Carmen, The Royal Opera, 2006 © Catherine Ashmore Shocked by a ludicrous death? Amazed by an unexpected performance? Caught off-guard by a live broadcast...
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