The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned madness, love and avenge. After the murder of his father, Hamlet opposes the marriage of his mother and his uncle, at the expense of his beloved and himself. After their unanimously acclaimed Les Huguenots in 2011, Marc Minkowski and Olivier Py are continuing their highly personal exploration of the 19th-century French Grand Opéra repertoire.

Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera ...

An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent...

Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union bet...

Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, a...

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 ...

When Jephthah, a biblical parable adapted from the Book of Judges, begins, the people of Israel are ...

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...

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan...

Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint ...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...

Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the ...

The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Flemi...

Louisa Muller makes her Garsington directing debut and we welcome back Richard Farnes (Falstaff, 201...
B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National T...

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...