Evening events, Opera

Verdi's opera live from the Taormina Arts festival.

Ware Operatic performs nautical tunes.

• Directed by: Ramin Gray
• Written by: Oscar Wilde

Gerald Barry's operatic adaption of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners. With direction by Ramin Gray. The Britten Sinfonia is conducted by Tim Murray and Alan Ewing stars as Lady Bracknell.

• Directed by: Edward Dick
• Written by: Rossini

David Parry conducts Rossini's tale of deception when the Greek island of Negroponte is besieged by the Turks. Directed by Edward Dick, with Darren Jeffery in the title role. Sung in Italian.

• Directed by: John Doyle
• Written by: Poulenc

John Doyle directs Poulenc's opera based Georges Bernanos's screenplay about events that took place during the French Revolution. With Stephen Barlow conducting the English Chamber Orchestra. Sung in French with English surtitles.

• Written by: Gilbert & Sullivan

The group performs Gilbert and Sullivan's comic-opera portraying the story of a young bride who arrives in Venice to join her husband, only to find he has gone missing.

A live performance starring Elna Garana and Roberto Alagna.

• Directed by: Stefan Herheim (dir)
• Written by: Johan Kobborg

Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi's dramatic tale of vengeance based on the Sicilian Vespers of 1282. Directed by Stefan Herheim with Marina Poplavskaya as Helene. Sung in French with English surtitles.

• Directed by: Jonathan Kent
• Written by: Puccini

Jonathan Kent directs Puccini's tale of love and temptation where Manon is on her way to a convent when she meets the young student Des Grieux. Antonio Pappano conducts with Kristine Opolais in the title role. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

• Directed by: Patrice Caurier
• Written by: Donizetti

Bertrand De Billy conducts Donizetti's version of the life and death of Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. With Joyce DiDonato in the starring role. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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

• Written by: Tchaikovsky

The players perform Tchaikovsky's poignant tale of love, hope, misunderstanding, regret and tragedy, set in 19th century Russia. Sung in English.

• Directed by: Richard Egarr (dir)
• Written by: Monteverdi

Richard Egarr directs a concert performance Monteverdi's opera, based on the Greek myth of Orpheus travelling to the Underworld to reclaim his beloved wife, Euridice.

• Written by: Llywelyn ap Myrddin

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: Alba Arikha

• Directed by: Jane Clark
• Written by: Mozart

Jane Clark directs A performance of Mozart's tale of dissolution and retribution, inspired by the Spanish legend of Don Juan.

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…

• Written by: Domenico Cimarosa

A performance of Benjamin Britten's first opera, about the founding of America by a motley band of pioneers, and Domenico Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage, a tale of class rivalries, marriageable sisters and a pompous English Count.

A performance of Mozart's two-act opera about a prince who uses a magical instrument to rescue a princess. Sung in English.