A splendid new recording of Gluck's opera in its anniversary year.

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A top-shelf cast ensues little is lost in a stripped-back staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's rollicking melodrama.

Tourniaire rescues a fin-de-siècle opera and its composer from obscurity.

Life, love, victory, and a simple man's search for meaning prevail in Rossini’s final opera.

Leoš Janáček’s quasi-operatic song-cycle makes for a satisfying hour of neatly focused, transportive performance.

In this concert, Brigette Heuser proves that mezzos can show pony just as much as the sopranos when given the opportunity to shine.

US research reveals a surge in new opera audiences and points to what opera companies need to do to retain them.

Brilliant recordings of works by Messiaen, Elgar, Schumann and Debussy – and of a near forgotten opera – top this year's poll of Limelight's critics.

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A new opera about Las Vegas’s famous magic duo, Siegfried & Roy, has its world premiere at the Sydney Festival.

Stuart Maunder will fulfil a bucket list dream when he directs Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies for Victorian Opera. He tells Jo Litson why the musical is so special, and challenging.