Opera on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Peter Maxwell Davies: Taverner
Martyn Brabbins conducts the 91热爆 SSO and tenor Daniel Norman in Maxwell Davies's Taverner.
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Massenet's Werther
Richard Farnes conducts an Opera North production of Massenet's opera Werther.
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Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre
Ligeti's 'nearly apocalyptic' blackly comic opera. Contains strong language.
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Britten's The Turn of the Screw
From the London Coliseum, Charles Mackerras conducts ENO's production of Britten's opera.
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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Antonio Pappano conducts tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Nina Stemme as the tragic lovers.
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Bizet's Carmen
Louise Fryer presents Bizet's Carmen, in a production from the Royal Opera House.
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Verdi's Don Carlo
The first revival of Nicholas Hytner's Royal Opera production of Verdi's grandest opera.
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Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Antonio Pappano conducts a production from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Dvorak's Rusalka
Jiri Belohlavek conducts the 2009 Glyndebourne production of Dvorak's Rusalka.
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Gershwin's Let 'Em Eat Cake
Wyn Davies conducts the British premiere of George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway musical.
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Verdi's Macbeth
91热爆 SSO under David Robertson in a concert performance of Verdi's setting of Macbeth.
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Britten's Peter Grimes
David Alden's ENO production of Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton in the title role.
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Skin Deep
Opera North present David Sawer's new opera from the Grand Theatre in Leeds.
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Puccini's La fanciulla del West in a production by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel
Colin Davis conducts Humperdinck's opera based on the tale from the Brothers Grimm.
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Matilde di Shabran
Carlo Rizzi conducts Rossini's tragicomedy, Matilde di Shabran.
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, in an ENO production conducted by Edward Gardner.
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Partenope
Christian Curnyn conducts an ENO production of Handel's comic opera.
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Cosi fan tutte
Riccardo Muti conducts Mozart's comic opera about female marital infidelity.
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La Calisto
Ivor Bolton conducts soprano Sally Matthews in Cavalli's tale of the Roman gods' antics.
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Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
A new production of Stravinsky's neo-classical opera, about a young man's decline.
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Love and Other Demons
Peter Eotvos's opera in two acts, performed at Glyndebourne. Vladimir Jurowski conducts.
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Candide, Act 2
Rumon Gamba conducts Act 2 of ENO's production of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta.
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Candide
Rumon Gamba conducts ENO's production of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta.
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King Roger
Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Opera in Szymanowki's exotic philosophical opera.
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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
HK Gruber conducts the RSNO in Weill and Brecht's anti-capitalist political satire.
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Wozzeck
A new production from the Opera Bastille in Paris of Alban Berg's dark modernist opera.
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Le nozze di Figaro
Charles Mackerras conducts Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in Mozart's comic opera.