Modern masterpieces take their place alongside much-loved classics in stupendous screenings from London's and New York's top houses, with stars from all over the world. Settle back in a comfy seat for the finest hours in all opera
Director Anthony Minghella's spellbinding production of Puccini's opera is a hit for English National Opera time after time, and returns in February. See it here performed at the Met, with Hui He in the title role as the Japanese bride abandoned by a heartless American naval officer.
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Another hit for English National Opera, Philip Glass's mesmerising opera stars the astonishing counter-tenor Antony Roth Costanza in the title role as the Pharoah. Director Phelim McDermott's beautiful production will look wonderful on the big screen and in HD.
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Artist William Kentridge directs Alban Berg’s masterpiece, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with baritone Peter Mattei as the disturbed title character, soprano Elza van den Heever as his unfaithful lover, plus tenor Christopher Ventris, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn, and tenor Gerhard Siegel. Catch a modern classic not frequently performed.
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Puccini's colourful and ultimately tragic story of Bohemian artists in late 19th-century Paris returns to Covent Garden with a starry cast led by Sonia Yoncheva as Mimì, and Charles Castronovo as Rodolfo. The couple meet in their cheap and cheerful digs, but their passionate affair is clouded by argument and illness, in a traditional production by director Richard Jones.
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James Robinson's spectacular production stars Angel Blue as Bess, whose devotion to beggar Porgy enrages a former lover. George and Ira Gershwin's tune-packed opera draws on their experience honed by Broadway musicals. Yet another English National Opera production, shared with Dutch National Opera, reaches a new audience at the Lincoln Centre.
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