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Audience protests lack of social distancing at Madrid's Teatro Real

Madrid opera erupts mid-performance as audience protests crowding in cheap seats

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Italy’s La Scala opera house to reopen in September with Verdi’s Requiem

Italy’s La Scala to reopen in September with Verdi’s Requiem

Conductor stops performance of Verdi opera twice over mobile phone offenders

Conductor Carlo Rizzi stops Verdi opera twice over mobile phone ‘miscreants’

Baritones high Gs

6 incredible high G notes sung by mighty baritones

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Menzi Mngoma goes viral singing Verdi in his cab

Uber driver unexpectedly starts singing incredible Verdi on a ride

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Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Rigoletto and Liparit Avetisyan as Duke of Mantua in Opera Australia's 2019 production of Rigoletto at Arts Centre Melbourne.

This elderly composer disrupted an opera by shouting into a megaphone on the front row

Katy Perry dresses

These Katy Perry music dresses will make you re-evaluate your entire wardrobe

Leonard Warren

The opera that killed its star – the eerie story of how Leonard Warren died on stage

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Happy Birthday in the style of Wagner, Verdi and Debussy

What if Wagner had written Happy Birthday – or Verdi, Debussy or Tchaikovsky?

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Piotr Beczala recording on antique equipment

Watch: modern opera stars recorded their voice onto wax cylinders

Montserrat Caballé

Legendary soprano Montserrat Caballé dies aged 85

Verdi chord

People are getting really creeped out by this one single chord in ‘Rigoletto’

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Woman arrested for playing Verdi loudly for 16 years

Woman arrested for blasting Verdi from her house 16 hours a day… for 16 years

piano squeak 2

This guy turned a piano squeak into something quite beautiful

Greatest pieces for tenor

The best pieces for tenors

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Casa Verdi

There's a retirement home for musicians – and we would like to book our places already

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operas for musical fans

10 operas you need in your life if you’re a die-hard musicals fan

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Singing painter John Pierce

This painter singing Verdi and Puccini will make you smile and also cry

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