When Jephthah, a biblical parable adapted from the Book of Judges, begins, the people of Israel are under the yoke of neighbouring nations which pillage and oppress them. Jephthah, destined to become their saviour, has grown up in the desert until becoming a powerful military leader. On leaving for battle, he swears to the god Jehovah that he will sacrifice the first person he meets on his way home. Alas, as he returns victorious, it is Iphis, his only daughter, who comes to meet him… Claus Guth directs this oratorio in which grief‑stricken voices interweave as they confront an apocalyptic situation.
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An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Byst...
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th cen...
Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty betwee...
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With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker s...
An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent...
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Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime port...
Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The...
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de ...
The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that w...
There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...
Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgar...
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Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they tr...
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