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Opera on 3 Episodes

  1. Rossini's Il Turco in Italia

    Maurizio Benini conducts Rossini's perceptive comedy of Neapolitan life and love.

  2. Duke Bluebeard's Castle

    Adam Fischer conducts Gabor Bretz and Elena Zhidkova in Bartok's only opera.

  3. Janacek's From the House of the Dead

    Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Janacek's final opera, based on Dostoyevsky's novel.

  4. Rachmaninov's Aleko

    Gianandrea Noseda conducts Rachmaninov's opera Aleko, based on Pushkin's poem The Gypsies.

  5. Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Jonathan Lemalu in Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.

  6. Live from the Met: Elektra

    Fabio Luisi conducts Strauss's Elektra, with soprano Susan Bullock in the title role.

  7. Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers

    Martin Handley presents a rare performance of Tchaikovsky's only comic opera.

  8. Peter Maxwell Davies: Taverner

    Martyn Brabbins conducts the 麻豆社 SSO and tenor Daniel Norman in Maxwell Davies's Taverner.

  9. Massenet's Werther

    Richard Farnes conducts an Opera North production of Massenet's opera Werther.

  10. Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre

    Ligeti's 'nearly apocalyptic' blackly comic opera. Contains strong language.

  11. Britten's The Turn of the Screw

    From the London Coliseum, Charles Mackerras conducts ENO's production of Britten's opera.

  12. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

    Antonio Pappano conducts tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Nina Stemme as the tragic lovers.

  13. Bizet's Carmen

    Louise Fryer presents Bizet's Carmen, in a production from the Royal Opera House.

  14. Verdi's Don Carlo

    The first revival of Nicholas Hytner's Royal Opera production of Verdi's grandest opera.

  15. Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

    Antonio Pappano conducts a production from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

  16. Dvorak's Rusalka

    Jiri Belohlavek conducts the 2009 Glyndebourne production of Dvorak's Rusalka.

  17. Gershwin's Let 'Em Eat Cake

    Wyn Davies conducts the British premiere of George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway musical.

  18. Verdi's Macbeth

    麻豆社 SSO under David Robertson in a concert performance of Verdi's setting of Macbeth.

  19. Britten's Peter Grimes

    David Alden's ENO production of Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton in the title role.

  21. Skin Deep

    Opera North present David Sawer's new opera from the Grand Theatre in Leeds.

  22. Puccini: La fanciulla del West

    Puccini's La fanciulla del West in a production by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

  23. Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel

    Colin Davis conducts Humperdinck's opera based on the tale from the Brothers Grimm.

  25. Matilde di Shabran

    Carlo Rizzi conducts Rossini's tragicomedy, Matilde di Shabran.

  26. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov

    Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, in an ENO production conducted by Edward Gardner.

  27. Partenope

    Christian Curnyn conducts an ENO production of Handel's comic opera.

  28. Cosi fan tutte

    Riccardo Muti conducts Mozart's comic opera about female marital infidelity.

  29. La Calisto

    Ivor Bolton conducts soprano Sally Matthews in Cavalli's tale of the Roman gods' antics.

  30. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

    A new production of Stravinsky's neo-classical opera, about a young man's decline.

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