Opera on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Dido and Aeneas
Music by Purcell, including Sarah Connolly's much-praised recording of Dido and Aeneas.
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Everest, by Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer
Composer Joby Talbot and librettist Gene Scheer's Everest. Life or death choices await.
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Verdi's Il Trovatore
Georgia Mann presents Verdi's epic melodrama from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Berg's Wozzeck
Antonio Pappano conducts a new Royal Opera production of Berg's disturbing masterpiece
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鶹Լ Cardiff Singer of the World Gala Concert
Petroc Trelawny presents a 40th anniversary gala from 鶹Լ Cardiff Singer of the World.
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The Flying Dutchman from the Met
Wagner's dramatic The Flying Dutchman stars Tomasz Konieczny and Elza van den Heever.
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Mozart's The Magic Flute
Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Mozart's fairy-tale comedy at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
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Terence Blanchard's Champion
Ryan Speedo Green stars as boxer Emile Griffith in operatic tragedy at the New York Met.
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Kaija Saariaho's Innocence
The UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho's new opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Puccini's La Bohème
From the New York Met: Puccini's romantic tearjerker conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
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Dvorak's Rusalka
Dvorak's fairy-tale opera from the Royal Opera House, starring Asmik Grigorian.
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Mozart's Idomeneo
Idomeneo from the New York Met, conducted by Manfred Honeck.
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Der Rosenkavalier from the Met
Simone Young conducts, with cast including Lise Davidsen, Samantha Hankey and Erin Morley.
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Puccini's Tosca
From the New York Met: Puccini's Tosca starring Liudmyla Monastyrska in the title role.
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Verdi's Falstaff
Verdi’s Shakespearean comedy from the New York Met, conducted by Daniele Rustioni.
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Bellini's Norma
From the New York Met: Helena Dix stars as the Gaulish priestess who falls for a Roman.
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Wagner's Lohengrin
From the Met, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Wagner's Lohengrin.
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Verdi’s La Traviata
Verdi’s La Traviata from the New York Metropolitan Opera.
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Wagner's Tannhäuser
Wagner's Tannhäuser, recorded at the Royal Opera House, London.
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Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk from the New York Metropolitan Opera.
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Britten's The Turn of the Screw
Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
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Janacek's Jenufa
Janacek's Jenufa from the Theater an der Wien, Vienna.
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Mozart's Così fan tutte
From Bavarian State Opera, a comedy of manners that plumbs the depths of human emotion.
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Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites
From the New York Met: a devastating tragedy set in a French convent during the Revolution
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Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
Romantic comedy from the New York Met, starring Golda Schultz and Javier Camarena.
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Giordano's Fedora
Umberto Giordano's opera Fedora, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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Cherubini's Medea
Cherubini's Medea from the New York Met: jealousy, violence, vengeance and infanticide.
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Humperdinck's Königskinder
Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera, which isn't Hansel and Gretel, from Amsterdam.
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Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard
English National Opera's new staging of Gilbert & Sullivan's most heartfelt collaboration.
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Verdi’s Rigoletto
From the New York Met: Luca Salsi stars in Verdi's great tragedy Rigoletto.