Opera on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Prokofiev's War and Peace
Valery Gergiev conducts a mainly Russian cast in Prokofiev's adaptation of Tolstoy's novel
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Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
Placido Domingo conducts Gounod's setting of Shakespeare's tragedy.
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Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride
Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham sings the title role in this production from the New York Met.
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Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore
Mikko Franck conducts Laurent Pelly's production for the Royal Opera House.
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Keiser's The Fortunes of King Croesus
A performance from Opera North in Leeds of a rarely heard 18th century German opera.
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Charpentier's Louise
A production of Charpentier's four-act opera given at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
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Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea
Laurence Cummings conducts the ENO Orchestra in Monteverdi's final opera.
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Bizet's Carmen
Petroc Trelawny hosts the new production of Bizet's Carmen from English National Opera.
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Massenet's Thais
Exotic tale of love and redemption, recorded at the Royal Opera House in June 2007.
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Janacek's Katya Kabanova
A free-spirited woman is trapped in a loveless marriage. Janice Watson sings the lead role
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The Sacrifice, by James MacMillan
Anthony Negus conducts the WNO in this opera tale of war, sacrifice and love.
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Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride
Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham sings the title role in this new Royal Opera House production.
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Britten's The Turn of the Screw
Edward Gardner conducts the London Phil and an international cast in Britten's opera.
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Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso
The Scottish CO and Chorus tell the story of Orlando on the island of the sorceress Alcina
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Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice from the Met, starring Jamie Barton as Orfeo.
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Dvorak's Rusalka
Dvorak's fairy-tale opera Rusalka from the Royal Opera House, starring Asmik Grigorian.
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Donizetti's La Fille du r茅giment from Munich.
Donizetti's La Fille du r茅giment from Munich starring Pretty Yende and Dorothea R枚schmann.
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16/01/2021
Operas from the UK and around the world