An opera based on a timeless movie, a chance for audiences to take charge, and musical answers to winter
Last chance to catch this spectacular production of Puccini's most dramatic opera, with Sinéad Campbell-Wallace in the title role. When an opera singer and an artist are tormented by a vicious chief of police, their love and loyalty to friends are tested to destruction.
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An enchanting family opera with new music by James Redwood and extracts from a Henry Purcell opera first produced 400 years ago. When it is discovered that the children of a mysterious village have never been allowed to see the moon, for fear that they turn into hares at daybreak, an enlightened new teacher resolves to let them experience the magic of the night. With the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, soloists and community performers.
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English National Opera has had a string of hits with new productions of often comic and sometimes tender masterpieces by those eminent Victorians, composer Arthur Sullivan and his wry librettist WS Gilbert. With the country in disarray, The Yeomen of the Guard, is a timely satire on order and disorder...
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Visit from Amsterdam of one of the greatest orchestras in the world, to play two great works: the Brahms Violin Concerto and Beethoven's Symphony No 6, the Pastoral. Leonidas Kavakos (pictured) is the soloist and Daniel Harding conducts a programme that would appeal to the household's younger music-lovers too.
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Year after year this remarkable festival attracts top artists to smaller venues where appreciate audiences can interact closely with the performances. Highlights this year include a Brodsky Quartet 50th anniversary concert featuring Haydn, Shostakovich and Schubert, a lieder recital by captivating tenor Benjamin Appl, Bizet's opera Carmen, the Philharmonia Orchestra playing Elgar, Dvorak and others, and the powerful Brahms Requiem with soloists including Roderick Williams (pictured).
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One of the most looked-forward to events of the Covent Garden musical year. The sorceress Alcina lures lovers, who perish under her spell. But when Ruggiero becomes her latest victim, she reckons without his fiancee Bradamante, who dons a disguise and follows him. Has Alcina – stupendous soprano Lisette Oropesa (pictured) – finally met her match, and will her powers wane?
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With winter on the way, fight back with the help of the LSO under Nathalie Stutzmann and thrilling young soloist Alice Sara Ott (pictured). Brahms confronts the future with his fourth and final symphony, wresting beauty from a lifetime of sorrow, Beethoven broods in his moody Piano Concerto No 3 and César Franck undertakes a terrifying journey in Le chasseur maudit.
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Pit your wits against forces beyond our control in an immersive opera where the audience are also the creatives. Come Bargain With Uncanny Things invites the audience to solve problems on the night, using everything means natural and supernatural, and with the help of 'bargainers' – singers improvising a new score every night.
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Growing up with one of the great Christmas viewing traditions in America, US composer Jake Heggie spotted the operatic potential of the sentimental 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life. His opera, also called It's a Wonderful Life and given its UK premiere by English National Opera, stars soprano Danielle de Niese (pictured), and promises to be a highlight of the opera year.
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‘The world turns on its dark side. It is winter.’ After the despairing opening words of Sir Michael Tippett’s oratorio, written at the start of the Second World War, music comes to the rescue of mankind in the form of melodies borrowed from African American spirituals. The London Adventist Chorale and soloists, including Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams and Nadine Benjamin (pictured) join the LPO under Edward Gardner. To open, Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music.
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