Features

The composer's life and work in three animations.

Twelve new arias by forty creative artists

What do Violetta Valéry, Semele and Turandot have in common?

What do Carmen, Rosina and Cherubino have in common?

What do Calaf, Radamès and Hoffmann have in common?

What do Don Giovanni, Enrico Ashton and the Commendatore have in common? 

What do Cavalleria Rusticana, Aida and Les Troyens have in common? 

Your guide to navigating the world of opera.

You have landed for the first time on a website devoted to opera. Where to begin?

Where the past meets the future.

How a voice can typecast a singer.

Love is all over OperaVision!

More than four centuries, to be exact.

Myths, legends, and a unique operatic tradition.

Once upon a time, in a dark cave, there lived a bad troll... Enter the magic world of Andersen with the fairy tale of the Snow Queen!

What does a ring mean to the wearer?

You never heard of this opera by Verdi? This is perfectly normal, and we'll explain why.

We all have an idea of what an opera is. But what makes an opera an opera?

Find out more about one of the world’s best known opera composers.

Sisters, partners, sometimes adversaries: a fascinating relationship

Carmen and many others

Discover how an epic cycle came into being.

Love. Passion. Power. Rage. Revenge: Wagner's epic Ring Cycle is one of the greatest operatic works in existence.

Meet the spookiest characters on our platform.