Chamber Music & Recitals

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins is the most performed work by any living composer. This performance is the largest ever staged and was uniquely performed in synchronisation with a specially commissioned war-archive film...

Pietro il Grande, kzar delle Russie - composed when Donizetti was 22 years old - was the first of the composer's operas to receive more than one production. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the work's premi?re in 2019, the Fondazione Teatro...

Opera legend Pl?cido Domingo returns to the spectacular Arena di Verona, where he more than 50 years ago made his debut. Pl?cido Domingo and Saioa Hern?ndez perform a programme dedicated to the great Italian composers Verdi and Giordano. Jordi Bern?cer...

Bayreuth is not only the city of Richard Wagner, but also of his father-in-law Franz Liszt. Described by the New York Times as a "brilliant pianist" who combines "musical maturity and youthful daring in his exceptional playing", Kit Armstrong performed...

In the 13th century, the rich merchants of Novgorod mock the dreams of far-away journeys and of commercial conquests brought forth by Sadko, a musician and singer. But Volkhova, the Sea King's daughter, is enchanted by Sadko's voice, and promises to help...

Jean-Christophe Maillot's inspired adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew won 3 Masques d'Ors (best choreographic show, best male dancer (Petruchio) and best female dancer (Katherine) and has toured the world to great acclaim since it was...

Siegfried is the third in the tetralogy of music dramas that make up Der Ring des Nibelungen. It charts the progress of the young hero as he unshackles himself from the dwarf Mime, reforges his father's sword to kill the dragon Fafner, and thus takes...

Internationally acclaimed choreographer Cathy Marston, previously Associate Artist of The Royal Ballet and Director of Bern Ballett, created The Cellist for The Royal Ballet in 2020. The inspiration for her first work for the Royal Opera House Main Stage...

Parma native Ferdinando Paer, who wrote more than 50 operas, composed Agnese in 1809 for a private entertainment and a company of amateur singers. In 1824, with a few changes to the score, this opera semiseria in two acts reached the Theathre- Italien in...

Memory in Motion: Percussion in Surround was a research project developed to examine how percussionists memorize musical actions within ensembles. As part of this research, director Aiyun Huang commissioned new works to compliment selected existing...

Star violinist David Garrett celebrates his ten-year spectacular crossover program with thousands of fans in the extraordinary atmosphere of the Arena di Verona, Italy. Performing his Greatest Hits of brilliant interpretations of rock classics like "We...

This new Pell?as et M?lisande from the Opernhaus Z?rich should be remembered as one of Dmitri Tcherniakov's most innovative production. Forget about the fountains, the caverns, the forest, the castles and the towers : here, the density of Maurice...