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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.
Elvira’s dream factory
The dramatic composition of I puritani shows us Elvira’s dream factory at work.
The Ice Break: a prophetic opera for our times
Prepare to be unprepared as you immerse in Tippett’s universe.
Death in Venice: the interwoven lives of Britten and Mann
Discreet and controlled Britten proved perfectly fitting to formulate the age-old antinomy between reason and passion.
Turning Voltaire’s Candide, a stinging blast against tyranny and feigned moralising, into toe-wiggling musical theatre is a crazy idea.
The two most influential operas of the 19th century are Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.
Tolstoy’s War and Peace defies improvement. How could Prokofiev dare to attempt such an impossible task?
A beautiful backstage peek at Chile's Teatro Municipal thanks to this touching and enlightening documentary.
Was there ever a more precocious talent than Mozart? He wrote Il sogno di Scipione when he was 15 years old.
Don Giovanni’s intrinsic ambiguity
Is Don Giovanni comedy or tragedy? This unsettling ambiguity lies at the heart of the opera.
In this series of articles, we will focus on female roles who stand out by virtue of their strong, independent and enterprising character.
Death and the young man
Violanta is Korngold’s second opera, composed at the tender age of 17.
Dramaturg Koen Bollen asks director Alan Lucien Øyen if Rusalka is merely a magical extravaganza or a thoughtful parable about what it is to be human.
A new composition by Katarzyna Głowicka for female voices, string quartet and live electronics, directed by Krystian Lada.
Orpha Phelan, director of La Cenerentola at Irish National Opera, explains what makes Rossini’s opera so brilliant.
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?
Here is everything you need to know about Puccini's masterpiece before watching the full performance.
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.
