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Opera is an art form replete with tales. Find your way through narratives, adventures, and biographies. Find out how opera brings many streams of the arts together.
Here is everything you need to know about Puccini's masterpiece before watching the full performance.
Orpha Phelan, director of La Cenerentola at Irish National Opera, explains what makes Rossini’s opera so brilliant.
With teaching ideas, video clips from the opera, an interview with a professional singer and excerpts from the novel.
José Miguel Pérez-Sierra explains his love for Rossini and why The Barber of Seville has stood the test of time.
Ahead of their new production at Garsington Opera, conductor Jac van Steen and director Paul Curran share their thoughts on Smetana’s popular opera.
Ivan Acher’s new opera Sternenhoch is based on an unconventional Czech novel. But who exactly was its author?
In the 161 years since the revised version of Moniuszko’s first opera, it has never left the Polish repertoire.
Giuseppe Verdi was the leading Italian composer of his time, and his operas remain extremely popular.
The first of Mozart’s three collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte is one of the best-loved operas of all time.
Contemporary opera is flourishing in our present era, embracing new narratives, timely topics and innovative formats.
Congratulations to a number of our partners on their success at the 2019 International Opera Awards announced on 29 April at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.
What do opera companies with the status of 'national institutions' say about the people they represent?
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!
#OperaPassion Day
A live celebration of opera’s raw emotive power.
