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Polish National Opera will include Penderecki’s The Black Mask as one of four new productions next season. The director is the British opera chief Sir David Pountney, whose championing of Weinberg’s The Passenger has earned […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are looking for neglected stocks in these shaky times, you could do worse than sink a pair of ears into the music of Paul Ben-Haim. It […]

A  tenor who was audibly below par, an extra who fell into an archaeological dig and a production that failed to justify its investment…. all went wrong at the New Year’s opening of Verdi’s Aida. […]