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- DirectorPeter SellarsStarsGerald FinleyJessica RiveraEric OwensThe first act takes place about a month before the bomb is to be tested, and the second act is set in the early morning of July 16, 1945. During the second act, time frequently slows down for the characters and then snaps back into reality.
- StarsEmma BellVirginie VerrezRosalind PlowrightAbandoned by her lover Anatol, Vanessa retreats from the world, waiting and hoping with only her mother and her niece Erika for company. But when, 20 years later, Anatol's handsome young sone arrives unexpectedly, he shatters the calm of this shuttered household of women. Past and present love collides, and the aftershocks threaten to destroy them all.
- DirectorMargaret WilliamsStarsChristopher PurvesBarbara HanniganBejun MehtaAngels tell of a 12th Century French lord who hires a Boy to create an illuminated manuscript. When Agnès, the Proctector's wife, sleeps with the Boy, he exacts revenge.
- DirectorFelix BreisachStarsMelanie DienerLucio GalloAlfred Muff
- DirectorPeter ManiuraStarsSusan GrahamAnna Caterina AntonacciGregory KundeThis epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.
- DirectorTom CairnsStarsStephanie NovacekKarl DaymondMary HegartyTom Cairns cinematic film presents Bernstein's short opera set in 1950's America. The opera is a satire on American suburban married life with Dinah and Sam facing marital breakdown, from which the lastest movie release "Trouble in Tahiti" is the only escape. The score is a pathbreaking fusion of lyric art with popular entertainment.
- DirectorJonathan HaswellStarsChristine RiceRebecca BottonePumeza MatshikizaAn opera based on the story of Asterios, half-human half-bull half-brother of Ariadne, and the quest of Theseus to kill him and end the blood debt between Athens and Crete.
- DirectorSue JuddStarsAnne Sofie von OtterMarcus HaddockLisa Milne
- DirectorFrançois RoussillonStarsJohn Mark AinsleyMichael WallaceJohn-Owen Miley-ReadBilly Budd is an innocent, naïve seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
- DirectorRoss MacGibbonStarsJohn Graham-HallAndrew ShoreTim Mead
- DirectorPhyllida LloydStarsJosephine BarstowTom RandleDavid Ellis
- DirectorRobin LoughStarsToby SpenceBenjamin BevanMark Stone
- DirectorSue JuddStarsJohn Mark AinsleyOrla BoylanClive Bayley
- DirectorFrançois RoussillonStarsLouise AlderAllan ClaytonRalf HigginsThe historic tale of Lucretia has inspired works by artists throughout the ages. According to historians, Lucretia was raped by Tarquinius Sextus, son of the Etruscan King of Rome. Her consequent suicide spurred the revolution that toppled the monarchy and brought about the Roman Republic. In Ronald Duncan's libretto, the action is introduced and commented upon throughout by two contemporary observers, a Male and Female Chorus, lending the story an urgent, contemporary air.
- DirectorGreg ShearsStarsEilene HannanMargaret HaggartAnson Austin
- DirectorKatie MitchellStarsLisa MilneMark PadmoreDiana MontagueThe operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.