Chamber Music & Recitals

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at the Com?die-Fran?aise who was much admired by Voltaire. Hailed as a masterpiece, the opera was triumphantly staged in cities around the world after it's...

Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well centres on the tale of Helena's quest to marry the man she loves, the rather unimpressed Bertram, who initially refuses her due to her lack of social standing. Aided by fellow conspirator Diana, Helena devises a...

Like no other, Bach's music carries within itself movement and dance, managing to combine the greatest abstraction with a concrete, physical and, subsequently, even transcendental dimension. (Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker) During her 1980 stay in New York,...

Henry VIII is one of Shakespeare's final plays, a political thriller based on the power struggle between the Tudor court and the eponymous king's ambitious first minister, Cardinal Wolsey. Though famous in it's own time as the most extravagant of the...

Dominic Dromgoole's acclaimed Olivier award-winning production is brought to it's conclusion in Part 2 of Shakespeare's historical masterpiece, Henry IV - a thrilling tale of family, treachery and war that surveys the entire panorama of English life...

The first instalment of what is widely acknowledged to be Shakespeare's greatest historical saga, Henry IV Part 1 is an epic tale of power, treachery and war, exploring the complexity of father-son relationships. Featuring an Olivier award-winning...

Jean-Joseph Cassan?a de Mondonville was greatly admired in his day. His opera Titon et l'Aurore was one of his most popular works, being held up as a triumph over the rival Italian style during the Parisian Querelle des Bouffons in the 1750s. The...

The plot of Gounod's opera La Nonne sanglante ('The Bleeding Nun') is drawn from Matthew Lewis's once famous 1796 novel The Monk. The subject is a Gothic melodrama featuring warring families, two lovers, and the vengeful spectre of the Nun, to which...

Metanoia - the word itself - means beyond thought; to broaden and change the way of seeing. 'Metanoia', which crosses both time and borders with the works of Giacomo Puccini, Arvo P?rt, Alexander Borodin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heitor Villa-Lobos and...

Kurt Weill wrote Street Scene shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany to the United States. When he discovered the vitality of the American musical scene, his focus became to reconcile the Broadway "musical" with European traditional opera, jazzy and...

Vincenzo Bellini's first great operatic success I Capuleti e i Montecchi is based on an Italian version of Romeo and Juliet in which the feuding clans seek reconciliation through the wedding of Giulietta and Tebaldo. Giulietta's lover, Romeo, begs her to...

A breath of fresh air is blowing over the Ural Opera Ballet with this new version of Paquita, halfway between tradition and modernity! A festive ballet recounting the thwarted loves of a gypsy and an officer, Paquita marked the debut of Marius Petipa in...