Return to childhoodThe Magic Flute is the ideal opera for all ages, from children to seniors. That’s why on today’s who we’re going to the Pinoduero elementary school situated in the Spanish town of Tudela de Duero.There, not only will we talk to the 7-year old 1st graders about the opera, but also to their parents. With the kids, we’ll relive and enjoy The Magic Flute as a tale of princes and…

As time goes by“Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss, is a wonderful comedy of errors that reflects upon the passage of time. Set in eighteenth century imperial Vienna, it tells the story of the romance between an aristocratic woman at the gates of later life and a handsome boy of seventeen.To better understand the plot and the characters, we wander the streets of Vienna and its majestic buildings in order to breathe in…

Personal improvementNabucco is the opera that made Verdi who he is and the first one where his style is recognizable. In today’s episode, we’ll discover why his other operas would never have existed if this one had never come to be.We travel to Valencia where Nabucco is being put on at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. There, we will attend one of the rehearsals of the Valencian government’s chorus and…

The dark side of the human beingWhen Salome was first performed in 1905, it caused quite a scandal. Audiences had never before seen an opera which included paedophilia, necrophilia, incest and decapitation.Based on the timeless play by Oscar Wilde, who knew well the darkest corners of the human heart, Richard Strauss wrote a troubling, uneasy score which portrays very clearly our basest instincts. Salome could be described perfectly as the opera of…

The strength of human relationshipsCosì fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the leading examples of musical classicism, and its main topic, narrated as a comedy, is infidelity.As a visual experiment, and taking Lars Von Trier's Dogville as our artistic direction, we will act out a scene involving a couple's "fiancée swapping".We'll also discover the origins of this opera which ended up being scorned during the romantic age and was…

BUY SEASON 2 Checkout SINGLE CHAPTERS SEASON 1Buy the entire season in one click or choose your chapter HD:This is Opera delves into the world of opera in a journey of innovative, imaginative entertainment that takes us from Monteverdi to Bernstein. A documentary series that provides the keys to understanding and enjoying the most popular operas in history.This is Opera's stunning visual approach takes the viewer on a journey of discovery to…

Our Love For Our RootsOver 24 hours, we’ll roam the picturesque village of Aichach in the federal state of Bavaria in order to talk about one of romanticism’s first operas, “The Freeshooter” by Karl Maria Von Weber.A setting straight out of a fairy tale, Aichach is where the main action in this opera written in 1820 takes place, an opera through which the author tried to convey his love for a country’s…

BUY SEASON 1CheckoutThis is Opera delves into the world of opera in a journey of innovative, imaginative entertainment that takes us from Monteverdi to Bernstein. A documentary series that provides the keys to understanding and enjoying the most popular operas in history.This is Opera's stunning visual approach takes the viewer on a journey of discovery to the secrets behind each opera, visiting the locations where its stories take place: Vienna, London, Barcelona,…

Passion and jealousyLife is one great theatre; and theatre is a reflection of real life. This might just be the perfect opera to catch you in its web and to make even the greatest sceptic fall in love with it.An opera in which fiction and reality intermingle and where nothing is as it might appear. Love, indifference, jealousy, hate and death can all be found in this opera, just as they are…