Opera on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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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 Tannh盲user
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York: can medieval minstrel Tannh盲user 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 Boh猫me
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.
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Daniel Cat谩n's Florencia en el Amazonas
Opening the new season of broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
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Puccini's Tosca with Maria Callas
The legendary 1953 recording starring Maria Callas on the 100th anniversary of her birth
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Donizetti鈥檚 Zoraida di Granata
From the 2023 Wexford Festival, a love triangle happily resolved in 15th-century Granada.
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Erlanger's L'Aube rouge
From the 2023 Wexford Festival: a tragic love triangle among Russian anarchists in France.
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Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart's peerless comic opera of love, sex and class, from the 2023 Salzburg Festival
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Wagner's Parsifal
Wagner's final music drama of lust, forgiveness and compassion from the Bayreuth Festival.
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Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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The Force of Destiny
Verdi's The Force of Destiny from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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George Benjamin's Picture a day like this
UK premiere production of George Benjamin's latest opera, conducted by Corinna Niemeyer.
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Wagner's Das Rheingold
Wagner's Das Rheingold from the Royal Opera House, London, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
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Massenet's Manon
Jules Massenet's Manon from the Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, conducted by Marc Minkowski.
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John Adams's Nixon in China
John Adams's Nixon in China from Paris, starring Thomas Hampson and Ren茅e Fleming.
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Verdi's Don Carlo
Verdi's Don Carlo from the Royal Opera House, London, starring soprano Lise Davidsen.
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Dido and Aeneas
Music by Purcell, including Sarah Connolly's much-praised recording of Dido and Aeneas.
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Everest, by Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer
Composer Joby Talbot and librettist Gene Scheer's Everest. Life or death choices await.
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Verdi's Il Trovatore
Georgia Mann presents Verdi's epic melodrama from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Berg's Wozzeck
Antonio Pappano conducts a new Royal Opera production of Berg's disturbing masterpiece
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成人快手 Cardiff Singer of the World Gala Concert
Petroc Trelawny presents a 40th anniversary gala from 成人快手 Cardiff Singer of the World.
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The Flying Dutchman from the Met
Wagner's dramatic The Flying Dutchman stars Tomasz Konieczny and Elza van den Heever.