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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.

The Snow Queen - a Fairy Tale Opera
La Monnaie/De Munt
Opera Glossary

A glossary of opera terms.
Header - 5TTK
5 things to know about Il corsaro
Ratto dal Serraglio
Opera, the Art of Emotions

An opera is composed of four essential elements: the text (‘libretto’) and the music, the singing and the staging.
Opera for beginners
Opera for Beginners
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Puccini’s most famous operas have retained their hold on the public for over 100 years.
Fatal Attraction: Cinema and Opera
À la française!
Small dictionary of operatic devices: R is for RING
Opera North: Die Walküre
Wagner and his Ring

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung remains the most ambitious and monumental achievement in the history of opera. The composer took 25 years to bring it to life, and designed a purpose-built theatre in the Franconian town of Bayreuth in order to realise it.