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Don Pasquale
Juan Diego Florez injects star quality into Jonathan Miller's new production at the Royal Opera House, but is it enough to make Donizetti's opera buffa fizz?
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Pelléas et Mélisande
Glyndebourne On Tour tackles Debussy's bizarre, surreal lyric drama. |
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La Boheme
David McVicar's 2000 Glyndebourne production updates Puccini's timeless classic. |
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Semele
Ian Bostridge makes his debut as Jupiter in a stylish and witty satire at The Coliseum. |
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La Rondine
Angela Gheorghiu returns as the poignant Magda in Puccini's little-performed opera. |
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Siegfried
Phyllida Lloyd continues her triumphant new Ring Cycle at ENO, with a teenage misfit of a Siegfried... |
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Falstaff
Alan Opie is a wonderfully three-dimensional Falstaff but Mark Wigglesworth disappoints in the pit at The Coliseum. |
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La Forza Del Destino
Just because it's new, doesn't mean it's good... Riccardo Muti pulled out - could Antonio Pappano save the day? |
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Faust
New cast, new director, new conductor - can they make the difference to Royal Opera's controversial Faust? |
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Don Giovanni
Calixto Bieito's visceral production - Don Giovanni as drugged-up sex addict - caused a storm of protest in 2001. Will it still shock in 2004? |
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Così Fan Tutte
Mozart's comedy of manners shows that the old pros (including the producer) can still knock spots off the young pretenders. |
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The Greek Passion
David Pountney's award-winning production of the Martinu rarity, first seen in 2000, returns to the Royal Opera House with a superb cast. |
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La Gioconda
Never mind the story, the singing's glorious - ROH stages a concert performance of Ponchielli's opera at Covent Garden, with Violeta Urmana starry in the title role. |
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The Miserly Knight / Gianni Schicchi
Glyndebourne Festival Opera makes its annual visit to the BBC Proms with a double bill of Rachmaninov and Puccini. |
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Hansel And Gretel
The first complete concert performance of a neglected masterpiece at the BBC Proms. |
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Das Rheingold
Sir Simon Rattle's Rheingold kicks off the BBC Proms first Ring Cycle. |
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Luisa Miller
The 2003 ROH version of this early Verdi opera - his most underrated score? - was a huge disappointment. Can Opera Holland Park do better? |
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Peter Grimes
Britten's grittiest opera gets a new Willy Decker production at Covent Garden. It's controversial, and certainly different - does it work? |
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Tosca
Franco Zefirelli's celebrated production, which famously saw Callas star as the Diva, finally reaches the end of the line at the Royal Opera House. |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Paul Daniel finds new subtleties in Britten's atmospheric score at the London Coliseum. But has the production stood the test of time? |
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Ariadne Auf Naxos
Sir Colin Davis provides a persuasive account of his favourite Strauss opera at Covent Garden, in the first revival of Christof Loy's lavish 2002 production. |
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Zurich Opera brings a concert performance of Wagner's lighter opera to the Royal Festival Hall, with José van Dam starring as Hans Sachs. |
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Faust
Royal Opera fields an all-star cast for a past favourite, soon to be seen on both small and large screens... just as well, as tickets sold out within a day. |
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Ernani
Elijah Moshinsky's take on early Verdi returns to the Coliseum with Rhys Meirion in the title role and Cara O'Sullivan as a soaring Elvira. |
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Resonance
A triple bill at Battersea Arts Centre in the Virtually Opera Season - puppetry, video, live performance and Jennifer Anniston with jet lag... |
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Arabella
Thomas Hampson brings a warm glow to a young girl's heart in the Royal Opera's new production of Strauss' romantic Arabella. |
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Falstaff
Colin Davis brings the Merry Wives of Windsor to the Barbican Hall in a concert performance to celebrate the LSO's Centenary. |
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Il Trovatore
Elijah Moshinsky's trad production of Verdi returns to the Royal Opera House: Irina Mishura makes an impressive house debut as Azucena. |
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The Valkyrie
The second slice of ENO's ambitious new Ring Cycle puts the spotlight firmly on Brunnhilde and triumphs at The Coliseum. They're in for a treat at Glastonbury. |
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The Flying Dutchman
Interview feature: Flying producers and Wagner's popular opera at the National Theatre, Vilnius. |
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The Rape Of Lucretia
Britten's first chamber opera in the suitably cosy space of the ROH's Linbury Studio Theatre. |
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Mass in Blue / Ein Deutsches Requiem
Young British composer Will Todd's electrifying jazz mass is paired with the Brahms classic at Barbican Hall. |
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Der Rosenkavalier
Sir Charles Mackerras conducts a classic revival of Strauss' best-loved opera, with a stunning new Sophie (and the rest are no slouches). |
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Bloody, brutal but very exciting - Royal Opera's new production of Shostakovich's grim drama in its original version. |
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Tosca
A revival for David McVicar's dark production of the shabby little shocker, but is there a lack of care in the casting? |
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The Magic Flute
ENO's production may be getting long in the tooth but it still looks good, and so of course does the sparkling new Coliseum... |
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Samson et Dalila
It should be an evening to remember - José Cura and Denyce Graves in the title roles, up-and-coming conductor Philippe Jordan, Elijah Moshinksy directing... |
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The Rhinegold
The first part of ENO's new Ring Cycle (finally) gets under way at the London Coliseum. Was it worth the wait? |
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Simon Boccanegra
Verdi's neglected political opera gets a fourth outing at the Royal Opera House. Angela Gheorghiu stars as Amelia and Robert Lloyd makes a farewell performance. |
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The Tempest
Wunderkind Thomas Adès conducts his first full-length opera. Music, cast and production combine to create a magical experience at Covent Garden. |
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