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Opera on 3 Episodes

  1. Handel's Semele

    Georgia Mann presents a performance of Handel's Semele from Munich Opera.

  2. Wagner's The Flying Dutchman

    Bryn Terfel takes the title role of the Dutchman cursed to roam the seas for all eternity.

  3. Gounod's RomΓ©o et Juliette

    From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim star.

  4. Puccini's Turandot

    From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Elena Pankratova in her Met debut as Turandot.

  5. Purcell double-bill: Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen

    Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and The Fairy Queen, performed by Les Arts Florissants.

  6. Debussy's PellΓ©as et MΓ©lisande

    Bernard Richter and Patricia Petibon take the title roles, and IvΓ΅n Fischer conducts.

  7. Verdi's Un ballo in maschera

    From the New York Metropolitan Opera: Verdi's tragedy culminating in a masked ball.

  8. Wagner's Tannhäuser

    From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: can medieval minstrel Tannhäuser find redemption?

  9. Richard Strauss's Elektra

    Ausrine Stundyte takes the title role in Strauss's blood-soaked expressionist opera.

  10. Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

    The moving and inspiring 1986 opera in its New York Metropolitan Opera premiere production

  11. Mozart's Don Giovanni

    Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Mozart's Don Giovanni.

  12. Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking

    At the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a nun and a murderer meet on death row.

  13. Puccini's La Bohème

    From the New York Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's ultimate romantic tearjerker.

  14. Verdi's Nabucco

    From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Verdi's Nabucco, starring George Gagnidze.

  15. Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi

    Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, recorded at the 2023 Salzburg Festival.

  16. Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve

    Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, recorded in Berlin 2022, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

  17. Handel's Jephtha

    From the Royal Opera House in London: Handel's late masterpiece, starring Allan Clayton.

  18. Daniel CatΓ΅n's Florencia en el Amazonas

    Opening the new season of broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City

  19. Puccini's Tosca with Maria Callas

    The legendary 1953 recording starring Maria Callas on the 100th anniversary of her birth

  20. Donizetti’s Zoraida di Granata

    From the 2023 Wexford Festival, a love triangle happily resolved in 15th-century Granada.

  21. Erlanger's L'Aube rouge

    From the 2023 Wexford Festival: a tragic love triangle among Russian anarchists in France.

  22. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

    Mozart's peerless comic opera of love, sex and class, from the 2023 Salzburg Festival

  23. Wagner's Parsifal

    Wagner's final music drama of lust, forgiveness and compassion from the Bayreuth Festival.

  24. Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore

    Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

  25. The Force of Destiny

    Verdi's The Force of Destiny from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

  26. George Benjamin's Picture a day like this

    UK premiere production of George Benjamin's latest opera, conducted by Corinna Niemeyer.

  27. Wagner's Das Rheingold

    Wagner's Das Rheingold from the Royal Opera House, London, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

  28. Massenet's Manon

    Jules Massenet's Manon from the Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, conducted by Marc Minkowski.

  29. John Adams's Nixon in China

    John Adams's Nixon in China from Paris, starring Thomas Hampson and RenΓ©e Fleming.

  30. Verdi's Don Carlo

    Verdi's Don Carlo from the Royal Opera House, London, starring soprano Lise Davidsen.

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