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Edinburgh International Festival 2007
Performances of operas by Bernstein and Vivaldi from the arts event with a global reach
Live from the Met
Live performances of the great operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House
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Edward Gardner conducts Harrison Birtwistle's controversial modernist opera.
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Antonio Pappano conducts the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's latest opera.
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Petroc Trelawny hosts the new production of Bizet's Carmen from English National Opera.
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Emmanuel Villaume conducts a production of Bizet's tragic opera.
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Louise Fryer presents Bizet's Carmen, in a production from the Royal Opera House.
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Alexandra Wilson introduces a performance of Bizet's opera Les pecheurs de perles.
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Britten: Billy Budd from Glyndebourne, starring Jacques Imbrailo and John Mark Ainsley.
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Donald Runnicles conducts the work that established Britten as a great opera composer.
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David Alden's ENO production of Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton in the title role.
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Edward Gardner conducts the London Phil and an international cast in Britten's opera.
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From the London Coliseum, Charles Mackerras conducts ENO's production of Britten's opera.
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Rumon Gamba conducts ENO's production of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta.
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Rumon Gamba conducts Act 2 of ENO's production of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta.
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A production of Charpentier's four-act opera given at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
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Donald Macleod presents a new production of Cilea's masterpiece Adriana Levouvreur.
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Riccardo Muti conducts Mozart's comic opera about female marital infidelity.
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Colin Davis conducts Kiri te Kanawa in Cosi fan Tutte, one of Mozart's wittiest operas.
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Mikko Franck conducts Laurent Pelly's production for the Royal Opera House.
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French Soprano Natalie Dessay stars in Donizetti's opera about a girl adopted by soldiers.
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James Levine conducts Natalie Dessay as the tragic heroine in Donizetti's tragic opera.
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Donald Macleod presents a performance of Donizetti's opera about Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Adam Fischer conducts Gabor Bretz and Elena Zhidkova in Bartok's only opera.
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Jiri Belohlavek conducts the 2009 Glyndebourne production of Dvorak's Rusalka.
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Wyn Davies conducts the British premiere of George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway musical.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Jonathan Lemalu in Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.
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Philip Glass's opera, which recounts Mahatma Gandhi's early experiences in South Africa.
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Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham sings the title role in this new Royal Opera House production.
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Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham sings the title role in this production from the New York Met.
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Placido Domingo conducts Gounod's setting of Shakespeare's tragedy.
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John Fulljames directs tenor Leonardo Capalbo and soprano Bernarda Bobro as the two lovers
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Daniel Oren conducts Charles Gounod's version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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Donald Macleod presents an ENO production of Handel's intensely dramatic opera Radamisto.
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Ivor Bolton conducts Handel's Tamerlano - a tale of tyranny and power, betrayal and love.
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Colin Davis conducts Humperdinck's opera based on the tale from the Brothers Grimm.
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Soprano Christine Schafer and mezzo Alice Coote play the siblings in this Met production.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Janacek's final opera, based on Dostoyevsky's novel.
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A free-spirited woman is trapped in a loveless marriage. Janice Watson sings the lead role
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Martin Handley presents ENO's version of Janacek's tragic opera Katya Kabanova.
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Charles Mackerras conducts Janacek's magical opera about the life of a vixen.
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A performance from Opera North in Leeds of a rarely heard 18th century German opera.
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Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Opera in Szymanowki's exotic philosophical opera.
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Ivor Bolton conducts soprano Sally Matthews in Cavalli's tale of the Roman gods' antics.
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Charles Mackerras conducts Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in Mozart's comic opera.
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Ligeti's 'nearly apocalyptic' blackly comic opera. Contains strong language.
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Fabio Luisi conducts Strauss's Elektra, with soprano Susan Bullock in the title role.
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Peter Eotvos's opera in two acts, performed at Glyndebourne. Vladimir Jurowski conducts.
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Martin Handley presents a new production of Massenet's great opera starring Anna Netrebko.
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Exotic tale of love and redemption, recorded at the Royal Opera House in June 2007.
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Richard Farnes conducts an Opera North production of Massenet's opera Werther.
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Carlo Rizzi conducts Rossini's tragicomedy, Matilde di Shabran.
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Laurence Cummings conducts the ENO Orchestra in Monteverdi's final opera.
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A complete performance of Mozart's opera Idomeneo, re di Creta, K366.
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Donald Macleod presents performances of Le nozze di Figaro and La clemenza di Tito.
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David Robertson conducts Mozart's opera about the clash of cultures between East and West.
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Suzy Klein presents a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, starring Iain Paterson.
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Franz Welser-Most conducts the Vienna State Opera production of Don Giovanni.
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Mozart's Idomeneo from the Edinburgh International Festival. Presented by Donald MacLeod.
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Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, in an ENO production conducted by Edward Gardner.
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A rare chance to hear Agostino Steffani's opera Niobe, regina di Tebe.
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Christian Curnyn conducts an ENO production of Handel's comic opera.
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Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC SSO and tenor Daniel Norman in Maxwell Davies's Taverner.
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Valery Gergiev conducts a rare performance of Prokofiev's first major stage work.
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Antonio Pappano conducts Prokofiev's rarely-heard opera, based on Dostoyevsky's novel.
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Valery Gergiev conducts a mainly Russian cast in Prokofiev's adaptation of Tolstoy's novel
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Nicola Luisotti conducts Puccini's portrayal of the tragedy of bohemian life in Paris.
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Puccini's La fanciulla del West in a production by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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James Levine conducts a production of Puccini's passionate but tragic opera.
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Gianandrea Noseda conducts Rachmaninov's opera Aleko, based on Pushkin's poem The Gypsies.
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Frederic Chaslin conducts Rossini's popular comic opera at the New York Met.
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Antonio Pappano conducts a production from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Maurizio Benini conducts Rossini's perceptive comedy of Neapolitan life and love.
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Alexandra Wilson presents a concert performance of Rossini's rarely heard opera Otello.
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Opera North present David Sawer's new opera from the Grand Theatre in Leeds.
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Donald Macleod presents a Welsh National Opera production of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.
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Strauss's comic opera about age and class. Featuring Janice Watson and John Tomlinson.
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Kirill Petrenko conducts a performance of Strauss' comedy of manners.
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Philippe Jordan conducts Strauss's disturbing opera, based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
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Andrew McGregor presents Strauss's Salome from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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A new production of Stravinsky's neo-classical opera, about a young man's decline.
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Martin Handley presents a rare performance of Tchaikovsky's only comic opera.
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HK Gruber conducts the RSNO in Weill and Brecht's anti-capitalist political satire.
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Anthony Negus conducts the WNO in this opera tale of war, sacrifice and love.
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Roberto Abbado conducts Verdi's opera that was based on Victor Hugo's tragic play.
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Suzy Klein presents a new Royal Opera House production of Verdi's great love story.
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Nicholas Hytner directs Rolando Villazon and Marina Poplavskaya in Verdi's love story.
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The first revival of Nicholas Hytner's Royal Opera production of Verdi's grandest opera.
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Peter Stein directs bass-baritone Bryn Terfel as Falstaff in Verdi's comic opera.
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Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufman lead the cast in Verdi's tragic opera.
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James Levine conducts Verdi's adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy.
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BBC SSO under David Robertson in a concert performance of Verdi's setting of Macbeth.
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Johan Botha and Renee Fleming star in Verdi's version of the Shakespeare play.
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Baritone Simon Keenlyside makes his debut in WNO's revived production of Verdi's tragedy.
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Gianandrea Noseda conducts Verdi's tale about the perils of mixing love and politics.
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The Scottish CO and Chorus tell the story of Orlando on the island of the sorceress Alcina
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Lisa Gasteen and Deborah Voigt head the cast in part two of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle.
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A performance given at the 2010 Bayreuth Festival of Wagner's controversial Lohengrin.
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A recording of the recent production of Wagner's final opera from the Royal Opera House.
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Wagner's opera about a medieval troubadour's tussle between the sensual and the spiritual.
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James Levine conducts Wagner's exploration of the agony and the ecstasy of erotic love.
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Antonio Pappano conducts tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Nina Stemme as the tragic lovers.
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A new production from the Opera Bastille in Paris of Alban Berg's dark modernist opera.
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Series of broadcasts from the 2009 spring season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.