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The week in classical: Wexford Festival Opera: Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali; The Critic and more

This most friendly of festivals revives a disaster-fuelled Donizetti caper and another backstage comedy with name-that-tune moments. Plus, a witty new opera from Colm Tóibín

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Can new works revitalize opera?

Composers are always making new operas, but leaders in the opera world stress the need for emotional immediacy

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Final Fantasy art legend's poster for Lucca 2024 is a stunning tribute to the city's most famous son

And there are two more to come.

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The week in classical: La bohème; Family Ties: The Schumanns and the Mendelssohns; Treske Quartet – review

Royal Opera House; Queen Elizabeth Hall; Conway Hall, LondonPuccini’s genius shines through as his centenary year gets under way. Elsewhere, a good week for the Mendelssohns, and a Carrot Revolution

The Guardian - UK

Dog bites, animal fights, and getting Spotify cancelled – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Sydney Festival to set sail with opera staged on a ship

The Puccini opera Il Tabarro will be performed on the Carpentaria Lightship as part of the Sydney Festival, with the audience to stay on land for the spectacle.

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Opera for the public: Spain's Teatro Real opera house offers free broadcast to towns and cities

On a night in the middle of July, tenors, sopranos and a choir delighted the crowd in Madrid’s luxurious Teatro Real opera house with Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece, “Turandot.”

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Tel Aviv’s ‘Opera In The Park’ Returns For 20th Anniversary

Giacomo Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' to be performed at Ganei Yehoshua Park, free to the public

Zenger

Light show meets opera as new 'Turandot' seeks to lure people back to theatre

A kaleidoscopic light show has helped reinvent Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" currently playing in Tokyo - a production which aims to bring people back into theatres now that the pandemic has eased.

Reuters

Ai Weiwei makes operatic debut with 'Turandot' in Rome

Rome (AFP) - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei makes his directorial operatic debut in Rome on Tuesday with a new reading of Giacomo Puccini's final, unfinished opera, "Turandot".

AFP

Conductor Eun Sun Kim set to make history at Lyric Opera with ‘Tosca’

She will lead eight performances of Giacomo Puccini’s tragic love story, “Tosca” and in doing so, becomes just the fourth woman in Lyric history to conduct a mainstage production.

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