| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 30-Apr-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Bychkov conducts Calleja and Giannattasio in an immaculate Bohème |
 COOPER.jpg) After years of opera going, is it really still possible for me to be moved to tears by a tenor’s wail at the sight of a consumptive heroine dying tunefully in her bed at the end of the last act? I didn’t think so, but on the basis of last night’s Covent Garden performance of La Bohème, the answer would appear to be yes.
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| 23-Nov-2011 Royal Academy of Music, Sir Jack Lyons Theatre | A very Gallic bel canto: Béatrice et Bénédict at Royal Academy Opera |
 When you go to a student opera production, even at an institution as prestigious as the Royal Academy of Music, you don't expect to see one of the opera world's conducting legends in the pit. But that's precisely what we had at last night's performance of Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict, in the shape of Sir Colin Davis (CH, CBE), a man with several thousand opera performances on the clock.
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