Nabucco Alina Bottez 28/07/2026As Verdi asserted, his 1841 opera Nabucco was born under a lucky star. It was a huge success at its...
Un ballo in maschera Tim Hochstrasser 28/07/2026This opera, one of the finest products of Verdi’s middle period, has at its heart a fatal love triangle between...
L’Italiana in Algeri Josi Steinfeld 27/07/2026For thirty-seven years, Opus Opéra has presented a festival in the medieval hilltop village of Gattières that has become an...
Ariadne auf Naxos Tim Hochstrasser 21/07/2026Sitting between Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten, this opera partakes of both – a glamorous Viennese salon setting for...
The Merry Widow Owen Davies 20/07/2026This rich and colourful adaptation of The Merry Widow arrives in Buxton as an absolute treat at its delightful opera...
I Can Die Too Ziyu Zhang 18/07/2026I Can Die Too is a play within a play: a technical rehearsal of Jean Cocteau’s La Voix humaine (The...
The Importance of Being Earnest Tim Hochstrasser 13/07/2026‘We live, I regret to say, in an Age of Surfaces,’ says Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest....
Die Frau ohne Schatten Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2026Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow) is the fifth and most ambitious collaboration between Richard Strauss and...
Accabadora Alessandro Zummo 10/07/2026The Sardinian word accabadora comes from the root of the Spanish verb acabar, “to finish,” and denotes the woman who...
Die Zauberflöte Alessandro Zummo 09/07/2026Mozart’s final opera, premiered at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30 September 1791 just weeks before his...