Music, Opera within 5 miles of Edinburgh

Verdi's opera live from the Taormina Arts festival.

The Secret Opera Society lend even more authenticity to your three course Italian meal as they sing while you sup.

Horologe. Courtly French versus earthy English, period instrument ensemble Horologe present two programmes of Baroque love and loss, with dramatised songs and instrumental music by Clérambault, Rameau, Lawes, Hayes, Purcell and others. This was music written for performance in patron's homes in their private chambers…

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.

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…

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…

The largest arts festival in the world and the greatest show on earth. Every year thousands of performers take to a multitude of stages all over Edinburgh to present shows for every taste. From big names in the world of entertainment to unknown artists looking to build their careers, the festival caters for everyone and…

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.

Ellen Kent brings Verdi's magnificent opera to life with the help of a range of acclaimed international soloists.

Imprisoned and tortured for threatening to expose the barbarity of a brutal regime, political prisoner Florestan has little hope left. Only a daring feat of heroism by his loyal wife Leonore can offer him a chance of escape – and of justice. Beethoven’s only opera is a cry of defiance against oppression and an ode to…

A live screening direct from the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera of Jean-Philippe Rameau's first opera, which debuted in 1773.

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…

An evening of Italian opera, with the renowned Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupić. Enrique Mazzola conducts extracts from Respighi (Trittico botticelliano and Il Tramonto), Rossini (the 'Overture' and 'Di tanti palpita' from Tancredi) and Menotti's Suite from Sebastian.

Robin Ticciati kicks off the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's 40th anniversary season with Berlioz's last opera, featuring a libretto by the composer himself based on Shakespeare's sparkling rom-com Much Ado About Nothing. Featuring Karen Cargill and John Tessier as the quarrelling pair and a host of guest soloists. Sung in…

Don Giovanni is an enigma; if it's a comedy, why does the hero get dragged off to hell? If it's a tragedy, how come it ends happily? If it's a morality tale, why doesn't the hero repent? And if it isn't, why is he expected to? Hear highlights from the show, meet the principal characters and find out more about the…

Donizetti's 1842 Don Pasquale, a romantic comedy in which the titular elderly bachelor decides to marry late in life chiefly in order to annoy his hotheaded nephew, has been a favourite in the repertoire for nearly two centuries. Renaud Doucet's production transfers the action to 1960s Rome and features Swiss…

Hear highlights from Don Pasquale, meet the principal characters and find out more about the production in this Unwrapped session. Booking is essential.

Puccini's famous tale of Cio-Cio San and her abandonment by her dashing American husband, in a revival by Elaine Kidd of the highly successful 2000 production originally directed by David McVicar.

A free, hour-long introduction to Puccini's tale of doomed love. Hear highlights from the show, meet the principal characters and find out more about the production in this Unwrapped session.

A tense tale of switching allegiances, with a supposedly dead king, his grieving wife, a usurping duke, the dead king's sister who's in love with the duke (you getting all this?) and the duke's scheming counsellor who may or may not want the throne for himself. This touring version is scored for harpsichord, violin and…

Puccini's last opera, Turandot is the tale of an ice-queen princess and her (some think, startlingly fast) defrosting. It features probably the most famous aria in all opera, 'Nessun dorma'; hear it in its remarkably alarming context and you'll never associate it with football again. This is a concert performance (with…