Opera Now - April 2023

The renowned Verona Arena Opera Festival celebrates its centenary this year with a new production of its first performed opera, Verdi’s Aida.

Conductor Dan Ettinger comes clean about the trials and tribulations of conducting and the differences between opera and symphony orchestras.

Meeting the French Artistic Director of Athens’s second opera house as he transforms the space with Greek opera, new music and exciting collaborations.

Janáček Festival – Jakub Hrůša conducts two of the Czech composer’s masterpieces – his final opera From the House of the Dead and Káťa Kabanová based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play The Storm.

Jakub Józef Orliński, renowned Polish countertenor, draws on the influences of Versailles, the changing seasons and street culture.