A richly-detailed staging of Mozart's comic masterpiece from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Antonio Pappano conducts David McVicar's highly-acclaimed production. Show more

Tom Service interviews Sir Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Show more

Tom Service explores the life of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, visiting his final home in the Tatra Mountains and talking to scholars and experts in Poland. Show more

Antonio Pappano delves into the world of opera's fallen women and discovers how composers and librettists have used female characters to explore and challenge society's attitudes. Show more

For over a hundred years, Carmen has enthralled audiences. This thrilling tour of Francesca Zambello's spectacular new production includes interviews and sneak previews. Show more

Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, explores the greatest arias in the genre through a mix of workshops and archive footage. Show more

Lucy Worsley explores how history and opera go hand in hand. Lucy visits Paris, where two operas captured the spirit of Bohemianism - Bizet's Carmen and Puccini's La Boheme. Show more

Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut in a new production of Otello. Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi's masterpiece, based on Shakespeare's tragedy.

Historian Lucy Worsley explores how history and opera go hand in hand. Lucy visits Venice, where Claudio Monteverdi invented modern opera with The Coronation of Poppea. Show more

Nicholas Hytner's production of Verdi's Don Carlo from the Royal Opera House. Based on Schiller's play, it tells the story of the conflicts in the life of the Prince of Spain. Show more

World premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's new opera from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. A ship carrying innocents for slaughter sails towards the island of Crete. Show more

The world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's new opera from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Theseus confirms to Ariadne that he is determined to face the Minotaur. Show more

Sir Antonio Pappano, the Royal Opera House's music director, tells the story of the epic composition which changed opera and the theatre for ever - Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen. Show more

Antonio Pappano conducts this one-act opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Il Tabarro - The Cloak - is the first in a trilogy of short operas by Puccini. Show more

Antonio Pappano introduces and conducts Puccini's short one-act opera at the Royal Opera House, a tragic tale of love, loss and religious redemption set in 17th-century Sienna. Show more

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano introduces and conducts Puccini's comic masterpiece Gianni Schicchi - the final opera from his trilogy Il Trittico. Show more

Opera based on the life of the American Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, starring Eva-Maria Westbroek. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House. Show more

Andrew Marr is joined by key political personalities and cultural figures to discuss politics, current affairs and the arts. Guests include Sir Nick Houghton and Rupert Grint. Show more

Documentary going behind the scenes of a production of Puccini's Tosca by the Royal Opera House. Antonio Pappano examines the drama and musical language of this famous piece. Show more

Puccini's ever popular Tosca from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with a star-studded cast including Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel and Jonas Kaufmann. Show more