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Great Operas: A Guide to Twenty-Five of the World's Finest Musical Experiences

di Michael Steen

From Great Composers author Michael Steen, a unique multi-platform project offering a royal box view into one of mankind’s greatest art forms. From the soaring heights of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle to the...


Britten's Peter Grimes: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

Britten’s opera Peter Grimes is based on George Crabbe’s horrifying poem The Borough about early 19th century Aldeburgh, a North Sea fishing town in East Anglia. Its premiere at Sadlers Wells in 1945, shortly...


Mozart's Don Giovanni: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

With a wealth of famous tunes and meticulous characterisation, Don Giovanni is an undisputed masterpiece created by Mozart out of a thread-bare fairground gig. The Don – for whom both sexes have a sneaking...


Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

The great Russian poet Pushkin’s novel in verse tells the story of Tatyana, a love-struck country girl who unwisely wrote to the arrogant city-slicker Yevgeny Onegin professing her love. The tale resonated...


Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

A couple of smooth army officers in metropolitan Naples become increasingly horrified as they find that they are losing their bet with a misogynist philosopher. The wager? That their fiancées will be faithful....


Rossini's La Cenerentola: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

Rossini’s La Cenerentola (or Cinderella) is one of the most popular comic operas in the classical repertoire – the timeless fairy tale about the triumph of virtue over snobbery. Its first performance at Rome’s...


Mozart's Marriage of Figaro: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

Although the story of Figaro’s success in preventing the Count of Almaviva’s seduction of his fiancée Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the relatively enlightened Habsburg...


Puccini's Madama Butterfly: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

Butterfly is a delicate and impressionable geisha who thinks she has married Pinkerton, a US naval officer briefly stationed in Japan. Naive and loving as she is, she does not realise that for him the marriage...


Puccini's La Boheme: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

Puccini’s obsession with detail ensured the success of La Bohème, his opera about the impoverished ‘artistes’ in Paris in the 1830s. Soon after its première, people started calling their baby daughters...


Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor: A Short Guide to a Great Opera

di Michael Steen

Sir Walter Scott’s story of a Scottish girl forced by her family into an arranged marriage still resonates today, two centuries after it was published. Donizetti’s opera, which premièred in Naples in 1835,...