Venice has provided setting and inspiration for countless operas
3 October 2014
The city has an important association with the art form that reaches from I due Foscari to Death in Venice.
Happy 100th birthday Benjamin Britten
22 November 2013
Music and life of one of the greatest composers of the 20th-century marked by live performances and broadcasts.
Watch: Ian Bostridge on Britten's Canticles
8 June 2013
The British tenor on the challenges and rewards of five of Britten's rarely performed gems.
What are Britten's Canticles?
29 April 2013
A look at five works created in parallel to the composer's iconic post-war operas.
Operas for Halloween: Top 5 scariest operas
31 October 2012
From a haunted country house to a gruesome severed head, a look at the spookiest moments in opera.