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Pollini is back
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Opera
Ukrainian bass withdraws from Bayreuth
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Opera chief is knighted in King’s birthday honours
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Claudio Abbado receives plaque in Berlin
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BBC upgrades a conductor
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The Met played all season one-third empty
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Opera
On Bloomsday, James Joyce talks us through his Opera
Based on the Penelope chapter of Ulysses, Old…
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The Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires has given…
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Breaking: Climate protesters disrupt Glyndebourne
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Opera
Arena di Verona opens tomorrow with the Netrebkos
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SWR: Currentzis does not support Putin’s war
The southwest German station has issued a defence…
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