Features

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.

Goodness Triumphant
Intelligence wins the day
The universality of The Bartered Bride
Love, fate and obsession

Love, fate and obsession all play their part in Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang. Christof Loy explains why he finds the opera so fascinating and what he learnt while directing this new production at the Royal Swedish Opera.
Only that which is dull and dry is false
Halka and the birth of a national opera
Falstaff
5 reasons to love Verdi

Even if you’ve never seen Rigoletto, you’ve hummed ‘La donna è mobile’...
Pelleas KOB: Operatic Ghost Stories
Phantoms of the Opera
Castrati
Castrati
Stephen Gadd, Jennifer France and Jeni Bern in Anthropocene. Scottish Opera 2019.
Opera for our time

For over four centuries, opera has continually reinvented itself by experimenting with new ideas and adapting to evolving tastes.
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