Just in case your appetite for Covent Garden's La bohème is not fully sated, Travelzoo have a half price ticket offer for July performances.
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This is the last chance to see John Copley's production before it finally bows out in 2015.
Swapping Tosca tales backstage at the Royal Opera House, Roberto Alagna and Jonas Kaufmann.
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The Royal Opera House is to stream the 20 May performance of La traviata live online. This is not the first opera to be streamed from Covent Garden but it is the first to go out as it happens. It will also be shown free on various outdoors screens around the country.
According to the oddly-worded ROH statement, the event "will mark 25 years of support from BP" - does that mean they've paid for it, or not? Whatever, it's unlikely that the ROH will want to cut into their cinema revenues by making a habit of free streaming, so catch it while you can.
Through his Teeth - Linbury Studio, 7 April 2014
The laws of statistics suggested that if the Royal Opera House tried out enough new operas, sooner or later one would work. After an endless train of inept, underbaked or just plain boring efforts they've finally hit paydirt with Luke Bedford's Through his Teeth. If there's one thing you need to see this week, this is it.
Jonas Kaufmann Winterreise - Royal Opera House, 6 April 2014
While opera squeezes itself into pubs, clubs and underground bunkers, could piano recitals take over its abandoned theatres? Jonas Kaufmann's sold out the Royal Opera House instantly. Some may have come for the Schubert; I suspect most were after the man.
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