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• The Barber Of Seville

  Showing at Hackney Empire

  opening night: 08 Mar 2012

  closing: 10 Mar 2012

  Rossini's masterpiece about a pair of young lovers.

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• Billy Budd

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 18 Jun 2012

  closing: 08 Jul 2012

  David Alden returns to English National Opera to create a new production of Britten’s all-male Billy Budd.

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• Caligula

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 25 May 2012

  closing: 14 Jun 2012

  Sexual depravity and sadistic cruelty in the tale of a Roman Emperor tipped over the edge by his sister’s death.

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• Così Fan Tutte

  Showing at Royal Opera House

  opening night: 27 Jan 2012

  closing: 13 Feb 2012

  Mozart's opera follows two men as they follow the promptings of an arch-manipulator to test the constancy of their lovers.

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• The Death Of Klinghoffer

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 25 Feb 2012

  closing: 09 Mar 2012

  The London stage premiere of John Adams’s controversial docu-opera about the killing of a Jewish-American tourist during the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Palestinian militants.

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• Don Giovanni

  Showing at Royal Opera House

  opening night: 21 Jan 2012

  closing: 29 Feb 2012

  Mozart's famous title character loves, charms, lies and fights his way through life on his way to final retribution.

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• Dr Dee

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 25 Jun 2012

  closing: 07 Jul 2012

  Damon Albarn’s modern opera mixes pop vocals with 16th century period instruments.

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• Einstein On The Beach

  Showing at Barbican Theatre

  opening night: 04 May 2012

  closing: 13 May 2012

  Breaking all the rules of conventional opera, Einstein On The Beach is widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century.

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• Eugene Onegin

  Showing at Hackney Empire

  opening night: 09 Mar 2012

  closing: 09 Mar 2012

  Tchaikovsky's romantic opera based on a story by Russian author Alexander Pushkin.

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• The Flying Dutchman

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 28 Apr 2012

  closing: 23 May 2012

  English National Opera presents a brand new production of Wagner’s earliest masterpiece, The Flying Dutchman.

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• The Gershwins’ Porgy And Bess

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 11 Jul 2012

  closing: 21 Jul 2012

  The great American folk opera is performed by Cape Town Opera, marking 75 years since George Gershwin’s untimely death.

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• Jakob Lenz

  Showing at Hampstead Theatre

  opening night: 17 Apr 2012

  closing: 27 Apr 2012

  Wolfgang Rihm’s starkly Expressionistic sonic ‘psychogram’ charts the mental disintegration of real-life Sturm Und Drang poet, Jakob Lenz.

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• Madam Butterfly

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 08 May 2012

  closing: 02 Jun 2012

  Anthony Minghella’s Olivier Award-winning production of Puccini’s classic Madam Butterfly is revived by English National Opera.

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• A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Showing at Barbican Theatre

  opening night: 28 Feb 2012

  closing: 06 Mar 2012

  The Guildhall School’s award-winning opera programme presents A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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• Le Nozze Di Figaro

  Showing at Royal Opera House

  opening night: 11 Feb 2012

  closing: 02 Mar 2012

  Mozart’s classic comedy Le Nozze Di Figaro has a wealth of famous numbers and gives the chance for especially fine singing.

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• Patience

  Showing at Union Theatre

  opening night: 15 Feb 2012

  closing: 10 Mar 2012

  Gilbert and Sullivan’s satire on the British aesthetic movement of the 1870s is performed by an all-male cast.

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• Der Rosenkavalier

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 28 Jan 2012

  closing: 27 Feb 2012

  Richard Strauss’s Viennese comedy Der Rosenkavalier is a bittersweet blend of young love and mid-life melancholy

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• Rusalka

  Showing at Royal Opera House

  opening night: 27 Feb 2012

  closing: 14 Mar 2012

  Dvorák's Rusalka tells the tragic story of the water nymph who longs to walk on the ground as a human.

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• The Tales Of Hoffmann

  Showing at London Coliseum

  opening night: 10 Feb 2012

  closing: 10 Mar 2012

  Offenbach’s The Tales Of Hoffmann takes a trip into the memory of the titular poet, as he remember three of his great passions.

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