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Aidan Lang To Retire As WNO General Director
Lang will step down from the role at the end of this year, following four years in the position.
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Glyndebourne Reports Bumper Season For 2023
The Sussex-based opera house says 97% of seats were filled during its 2023 festival.
![Aria Alba Call Out For Aspiring Singers](https://cdn2.operaforall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Aria-Alba-980x675.jpg)
Aria Alba Call Out For Aspiring Singers
The Edinburgh-based opera company is looking for new members to take part in its production of Bizet’s Carmen next summer.
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What is an aria?
We often hear the word aria in connection with opera, but what does it really mean and where did the word come from? Rebecca Armstrong investigates.
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Review: At the Venice Fair By Bampton Classical Opera
Salieri’s little-known opera buffa is brought to the UK for the first time in this new English-language version by Bampton Classical Opera. Rebecca Armstrong was impressed.
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Interview with a theatre designer – Noemi Daboczi
From creative highs to freelance lows, find out what it’s really like to work as a theatre designer. Rebecca Armstrong talked to Noemi Daboczi, a film and theatre set and costume designer.
![Review: At the Venice Fair By Bampton Classical Opera](https://cdn2.operaforall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Bampton-Opera-Salieri-At-the-Venice-Fair-Ensemble-2-1080x675.jpg)
Review: At the Venice Fair By Bampton Classical Opera
Salieri’s little-known opera buffa is brought to the UK for the first time in this new English-language version by Bampton Classical Opera. Rebecca Armstrong was impressed.
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Review: Blue by English National Opera
Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s opera about love, loss and institutional racism is powerful, poignant and deserves to be a great success.
![Review: Akhnaten by English National Opera](https://cdn2.operaforall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/ENO-Akhnaten-1080x675.jpg)
Review: Akhnaten by English National Opera
This revival of Phelim McDermott’s staging of Philip Glass’s minimalist opera about the eponymous Egyptian pharaoh is a spectacular piece of theatre says editor Rebecca Armstrong