Opera on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea
Hannah French presents Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea from the Liceu Theatre, Barcelona
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Idomeneo from Munich
Simon Rattle conducts a concert performance of Mozart's Idomeneo from Munich.
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Giordano's Andrea Chénier
Antonio Pappano conducts his last-ever production as Music Director of the Royal Opera.
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Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in a recent recording from the Royal Opera House in London
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Live from the Met: Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
J. David Jackson conducts Gluck's beautiful setting of the ancient tale of Orpheus.
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Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade
Irish National Opera's acclaimed new production of an opera featuring the Olympic Games.
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Bizet's Carmen
Aigul Akhmetshina sings Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London.
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Live from the Met: Kevin Puts's The Hours
Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato as Virginia Woolf.
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Live from the Met: Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Asmik Grigorian and Jonathan Tetelman star in Puccini's tragedy of Americans in Japan.
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Live from the Met: John Adams's El Niño
Marin Alsop conducts John Adams's acclaimed opera-oratorio, live at the Met in New York.
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Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Ryan Speedo Green and Latonia Moore star in Blanchard's drama of a young man's journey.
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Live from the Met: Puccini's La Rondine
Angel Blue and Jonathan Tetelman star in Puccini's La Rondine, 'The Swallow'.
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Rachmaninov's Aleko and Francesca da Rimini
A double bill of rarely heard Rachmaninov operas from the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
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Handel's Semele
Georgia Mann presents a performance of Handel's Semele from Munich Opera.
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Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
Bryn Terfel takes the title role of the Dutchman cursed to roam the seas for all eternity.
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Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim star.
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Puccini's Turandot
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Elena Pankratova in her Met debut as Turandot.
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Purcell double-bill: Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and The Fairy Queen, performed by Les Arts Florissants.
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Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
Bernard Richter and Patricia Petibon take the title roles, and Iván Fischer conducts.
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Verdi's Un ballo in maschera
From the New York Metropolitan Opera: Verdi's tragedy culminating in a masked ball.
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Wagner's Tannhäuser
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: can medieval minstrel Tannhäuser find redemption?
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Richard Strauss's Elektra
Ausrine Stundyte takes the title role in Strauss's blood-soaked expressionist opera.
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Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
The moving and inspiring 1986 opera in its New York Metropolitan Opera premiere production
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Mozart's Don Giovanni
Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
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Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking
At the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a nun and a murderer meet on death row.
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Puccini's La Bohème
From the New York Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's ultimate romantic tearjerker.
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Verdi's Nabucco
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Verdi's Nabucco, starring George Gagnidze.
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Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, recorded at the 2023 Salzburg Festival.
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Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve
Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, recorded in Berlin 2022, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
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Handel's Jephtha
From the Royal Opera House in London: Handel's late masterpiece, starring Allan Clayton.