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La fanciulla del West: An opera seen through a haze of cowboy stereotypes

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Puccini’s La fanciulla del West is set in Gold Rush California in the 1840s. When it premiered in 1910, the setting presumably had novelty value, but audiences today might all too easily see the opera through a haze of cowboy stereotypes. Opera Holland Park is prepared to take that risk, last night opening its 2026 season (the company’s 30th) with Martin Lloyd-Evans’ new production.
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The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House review: commanding and unsettling

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The main stage at the Royal Opera House allows ample space for bold, expansive productions (it doesn’t always get them). But if you’re looking for something more claustrophobic, more menacing, the smaller Linbury Theatre, deep beneath the main auditorium, is a better bet. Claustrophobia and menace are plentiful in Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw; based (not slavishly) on Henry James’s novella, it fits the Linbury perfectly. Musically, it’s a tour de force of concision.
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Saul at the London Handel Festival: Has the tangled family tensions of Succession

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When Dr Johnson described opera as “an exotic and irrational entertainment”, he was taking aim at works sung in Italian, for English audiences. Handel epitomised everything that Johnson was complaining about: not only was he German (he arrived in London in 1710), but he wrote to Italian texts, yet he was far and away England’s favourite opera composer.
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