Evening events, Music, Opera

• Directed by: Michael Rosewell (cond)
• Written by: Verdi

Michael Rosewell conducts Verdi's opera about a corsair who becomes the Doge of Genoa. With Craig Smith in the title role and Elizabeth Llewellyn

Martin Handley conducts Puccini's classic East meets West tragedy about a young geisha girl and her American lover. Directed by Jacopo Spirei. Sung in Italian.

• Written by: Lynne Plowman

Contemporary children's opera composed by Lynne Plowman depicting the story of Salty Sue who wants to leave her life as landlady of the harbourside in The Blasted Bilge Rat to become a singer.

• Directed by: Giles Havergal
• Written by: Benjamin Britten

Giles Havergal directs Britten's comic opera set in early 20th-century Suffolk during May Day celebrations. Starring Josephine Barstow as Lady Billows. Sung in English.

• Directed by: Mark Forkgen
• Written by: Marc Blitzstein

Mark Forkgen conducts an English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein of Kurt Weill's opera, which gives a satirical view of capitalism in pre-war London. Directed by Ellie Nixon.

• Written by: W S Gilbert

Members of the local G&S society perform the comic-opera on their 40th anniversary. Donald Stephenson plays The Mikado and Rachel Warren sings the part of Yum-Yum.

World Premiere: Travelling salesman and sole breadwinner for his family, Gregor Samsa awakes one day to discover that he has been transformed into a giant insect. Unable to communicate and shocking to anyone who sees him, he is forced into a solitary existence confined to his room. As he becomes insufferable to himself…

Verdi's Italian language opera.

• Directed by: John Fulljames
• Written by: Andrea Leone Tottola

John Fulljames directs Rossini's story of King James's love for the maiden Elena, the daughter of his enemy Douglas and the girl's own passion for a hunter called Malcolm. Conducted by Michele Mariotti and starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Florez. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Seductress, victim, manipulator: Lulu lives off men as both tortured and torturer, purveyor of ecstasy and angel of death. Caught up in greedy games and seedy schemes, and surrounded by lovers driven to despair, Lulu makes an inexorable rise to the highest levels of power, money and fame. But her descent is just as swift.

• Written by: Handel

Minimalist composer Philip Glass’s magical reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s 1946 La Belle et la Bête combines the classic black and white film with live performance in a Šsophisticated work that is at once a touching fairy tale and a meditation on creativity. Removing the film’s original dialogue track and score by Georges…

Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti ed i Montecchi - opera in 2 acts Bellini's sixth opera was written for La Fenice in Venice in 1830, immediately before La sonnambula. It was not based directly on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet but on its Italian precursors. A distinctive coloration is provided by the older tradition of…

Highlights include: Georges Bizet: Les Toréadors from Carmen Giuseppe Verdi: Ehi! paggio! from Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi: Ella giammai m'amò from Don Carlos Richard Wagner: O du, mein holder Abendstern (Song to the evening star) from Tannhäuser, Act 3 Interval The acclaimed and award-winning operatic…

Giuseppe Verdi: Alzira - opera in 2 acts (concert performance in Italian with English surtitles) Interval continued Verdi's rarely heard eighth opera was his first for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in 1845. Cammarano, the resident poet, based his libretto on a play by Voltaire subtitled Les Américains, set…

• Written by: Verdi

Verdi's passionate opera in four acts about the doomed love affair between Ethiopian slave girl Aida and Egyptian hero Radames featuring the Chisinau National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

• Directed by: Ian Page (cond)
• Written by: Dittersdorf

Ian Page conducts Dittersdorf's Symphony In F 'The Rescue Of Andromeda By Perseus', Gluck's Scene from Orfeo Ed Euridice, Haydn's Scene from Philemon Und Baucis and Mozart's Scene from Apollo Et Hyacinthus, with Anna Devin, soprano, Christopher Ainslie, countertenor and Benjamin Hulett, tenor.

A performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's tale of love and bumbling bureaucrats.

• Directed by: David Manifold
• Written by: Gilbert

Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera about the Mugatroyd family's curse and its consequences. Stage direction by Simon Moss and musical director David Manifold.

Desire, obsession and doomed love: Oper Frankfurt’s striking double bill brings together two one-act operas separated by more than 200 years of musical history, yet united in their searing explorations of human relationships. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is a poignant masterpiece of early English opera that features some of…

Christian Carsten directs a production, featuring performers from Nationale Reisopera, of Puccini's tragic tale of two Parisian lovers living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Paul Drayton and Keith Sparrow's opera based on the folk tale. With soprano Lucy Eaton as Morveren the Mermaid and fisherman Mathew Trewhella played by tenor Ranald McCusker.

Verdi’s classic love story of war, jealousy and revenge.

The romantic opera is staged traditionally, directed by Ellen Kent and starring international soloists with the full Moldovan National Opera and Moldovan National Philharmonic.