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A pioneer in the development of opera, Claudio Monteverdi took vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony into an era in which genuine feelings and emotions could be expressed. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is part of a late flowering in Monteverdi's...

Linda di Chamounix is a pretty country girl who is in love with Carlo, who she believes is a penniless artist. Her honor is threatened by the local squire and she escapes to Paris in search of fortune. This is a tale of courage and madness, in which we...

Mozart wrote La finta giardiniera in 1775 when he was 18 years old. It was his first staged buffo opera and centres on the lovers at the heart of the action, Sandrina - the pretend garden-girl of the title - and Belfiore. With few ensembles, Mozart...

Having hung out her private detective's shingle in 1897 New York, Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning) found herself once more pooling her skills with psychologist Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Br?hl) and journalist John Moore (Luke Evans) to locate the kidnapped...

A pioneer in the development of opera, Claudio Monteverdi took vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony into an era in which genuine feelings and emotions could be expressed. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is part of a late flowering in Monteverdi's...

Linda di Chamounix is a pretty country girl who is in love with Carlo, who she believes is a penniless artist. Her honor is threatened by the local squire and she escapes to Paris in search of fortune. This is a tale of courage and madness, in which we...

Mozart wrote La finta giardiniera in 1775 when he was 18 years old. It was his first staged buffo opera and centres on the lovers at the heart of the action, Sandrina - the pretend garden-girl of the title - and Belfiore. With few ensembles, Mozart...

An overpowering and paradoxical perfume of dream and reality floats around 'La Traviata', as if the life and death of this so-called "errant" woman seem more real and more elusive than those of other opera heroines. It is with this perfume, composed of...

Hindemith conceived Mathis der Maler, his 'opera in seven tableaux', as a reimagining of Matthias Gr?newald's Isenheim Altarpiece, a depiction of Christ's intense suffering and crucifixion. Set during the turbulence of the German Peasants' revolt in the...

Death is never far away in Leo? Jan?cek's work: in The Cunning Little Vixen, the main character falls under the fire of a hunter, Katia Kabanova kills herself, Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case has to deal with the hard consequences of eternal youth...

Killing Eve is the story of two women, bound by a mutual obsession and one brutal act: Eve (Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy), an MI6 operative, and Villanelle (Jodie Comer, Doctor Foster), the beautiful, psychopathic assassin that she has...

Acclaimed by critics as an evening of superlative, Martha Argerich - arguably the greatest living pianist - joins Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for an unforgettable interpretation of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Argerich's...