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Off the canvas, onto the floor: Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo, the duo behind KOR’SIA, explain the process of creating a choreography for De Materie that turns Mondrian lines and planes of colour into dynamic movements.
Fri 6 November at 19:00 CET
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Sneak Peek at De Materie. Four centuries, four minds, one question: what can the mind do to matter? Louis Andriessen’s restless score about how ideas reshape the world.
🔔 Friday 6 November at 19:00 CET from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
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November is a month of enigmas 🌖
Britten, Janáček and Andriessen | Turandot for children & Little Bear | International Opera Awards
Discover the full programme! operavision.eu/
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Sneak peek at L’equivoco stravagante: social climbing, wild disguises and everything we’ll do for love, at full Rossini speed!
Tune in tonight Fri 30 Oct at 19:00 CET from @wexfordopera.
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L’equivoco stravagante was Rossini’s first large-scale opera at just 19… but it vanished from the repertoire after the censor fell foul of its subversive libretto!
Don't miss @wexfordopera evening of bizarre misunderstandings on Fri 30 Oct at 19:0 CET.
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🔴 Now streaming: Aida from @CapeTown_Opera for World Opera Day! An all-African cast and a futuristic reimagining of Verdi’s iconic opera.
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/BCYvnoie8IQ
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Happy World Opera Day! 🌍
Every 25 October, the opera world celebrates together. This year, the spotlight is on the bridges opera builds, across borders, languages and stages. #WorldOperaDay #OperaConnects
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Nonhlanhla Yende on the role of Amneris, which demands thinking outside the box and a challenging technical range.
Verdi's Aida in the futuristic vision from @CapeTown_Opera streams this Sunday 25 Oct at 19:00 CET.
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Verdi’s Aida goes futuristic for World Opera Day. @CapeTown_Opera and an all-African cast imagine Egypt a thousand years from now. Sunday 25 Oct at 19:00 CET.
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Aida's production from @CapeTown_Opera creates a futuristic world vividly brought to life with the help of renowned South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma.
🔔 Tune in on Oct 25 World Opera Day for the stream premiere.
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Meet Aida 👑 Interview with soprano Nobulumko Mngxekeza on the emotional and technical challenges of her title role, a woman torn between her lover and her country.
Sun 25 October from @CapeTown_Opera at 19:00 CET.
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Aida from @CapeTown_Opera to celebrate World Opera Day on October 25. Mark your calendars! 🌍
Director Magdalene Minnaar on how African roots shape the story and on building characters that audiences can relate to. More insights: operavision.eu/performance/a…
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🔴 Now streaming La traviata
Five-star production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy about a self-sacrificing courtesan from @GarsingtonOpera.
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/h6_X_9Ka50M
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Sempre libera, until now...
Society forgives a courtesan almost anything, except falling in love with one of its sons.
La traviata from @GarsingtonOpera
Fri 16 Oct at 19:00 CET
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La traviata: Paris, 1939. Champagne on the eve of war 🥀
@GarsingtonOpera’s lavish new staging of Verdi’s tragedy streams this Friday, 16 October, at 19:00 CET.
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🔴 Now streaming: International Vocal Competition 2026 finals LIVE from ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/live/AfdRA57Qy_o
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🔴 Now streaming LIVE! Neue Stimmen 2026 Finals: find out who will win the coveted international singing competition prize!
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/live/ah7deGLHnTI
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Also coming soon: the IVC 2026 Grand Finale LIVE from 's-Hertogenbosch. Tune in on Sat 10 October at 19:00 CET to find out the winners of this prestigious competition!
🎥 2024 Grand Prix winner Cláudia Ribas sings from Wagner's Götterdämmerung.
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Alejandro Baliñas Vieites won first prize and the audience vote at Neue Stimmen 2024. Since then, we have seen him on OperaVision in Christof Loy's Il trittico and El barberillo de Lavapiés. The zarzuela is up for @TheOperaAwards!
🔴 Neue Stimmen 2026 live: Fri 9 Oct, 19:00 CET
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In one week, we'll know the winners of Neue Stimmen 2026, a leading competition for young opera singers. LIVE on Fri 9 Oct at 19:00 CET
🎥 Hear 2024 winner Magdalena Lucjan sing 'Prendi, per me sei libero' from L'elisir d'amore.
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October on OperaVision: competitions, tears and mischief:
➖ Neue Stimmen 2026 Finals
➖ IVC 2026 Finals
➖ La traviata from @GarsingtonOpera
➖ Aida from @CapeTown_Opera for World Opera Day!
➖ Rossini's L'equivoco stravagante from @wexfordopera
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Alone before the last battle, Macbeth sings of the old age he will never reach: no pity, no respect, no love, and a curse where the mourning should be...
🎥 Verdi's Macbeth: 'Pietà, rispetto, amore' at Opernfestspiele Heidenheim sung by Thomas Weinhappel
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In La bohème, Musetta sings about how the street stops to look at her... performing for exactly one man, while another pays the bill!
🎥 'Quando men vo' sung by Katrīna Paula Felsberga from Riga. Full performance here: piped.video/cww_yaZo2X4
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🔴 Now streaming Rossini's La gazza ladra: an impossible (and dazzling) mess to sort out from this summer's @Rossini_Wildbad.
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/2GV-BXaePyY
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One of the most recognisable overtures ever written… but do you know the opera?
Rossini's La gazza ladran streams this Friday 25 September at 19:00 CET, from this summer's edition of @@Rossini_Wildbad.
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Streaming soon: Rossini's La gazza ladra. A comedy in which nobody laughs until the last page!
Friday 25 September at 19:00 CET, from this summer's edition of @Rossini_Wildbad.
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🎥 Così fan tutte: 'Dammi un bacio'
Back from the dead, or so they claim, the two strangers ask for one kiss. The sisters refuse. Don Alfonso and Despina watch the wager tighten.
Mozart from Budapest, staged by Kriszta Székely. Streaming until 23 November
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🔴 Now streaming Il trionfo dell'onore: Scarlatti's comedy in a production from @teatrolafenice at Teatro Malibran in Venice
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/x0oU1IAvsYM
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Scarlatti's Il trionfo dell'onore production from @teatrolafenice / Teatro Malibran in Venice is a riot of colourful shapes and comic-book imagery, a convincing blend of commedia dell’arte and slapstick.
Friday 18 at 19:00 CET
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🦋 Madama Butterfly: night falls on Nagasaki... but only one of them believes this is a marriage.
Puccini's tragedy, starring @ErmonelaJaho and Marcelo Puente, with Antonio Pappano conducting at London's Covent Garden @rbo_org. Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=VPxtD1ph…
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Premiered on 26 November 1718, Il trionfo dell'onore is Scarlatti’s only known comedy. Discover the production from @teatrolafenice (staged at Teatro Malibran) this Fri 18 Sept at 19:00 CET.
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🔴 Now streaming How Beautiful Panama Is!
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/b13qZAQMeQM
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The young dance company in Klaipėda on playing an entire jungle, and choreographer Daria Verovka on why she thinks adults have something to learn from children.
🔔 Discover tomorrow evening How Beautiful Panama Is!
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Le Roi d'Ys: discover Édouard Lalo’s grand opéra inspired by the mystical folklore of Brittany. The production from Opéra national du Rhin is conducted by Samy Rachid and directed by Olivier Py.
🎥 'Vainement, ma bien-aimée' sung by Julien Henric (Mylio)
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Possibilities, family... and socks!
Meet the young dancers racing through every corner of the Klaipėda State Music Theatre in Lithuania
🔔 Fri 11 Sept at 19:00 CET
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María de Buenos Aires: Last days to watch Piazzolla’s tango ‘operita’ from @operamrhein streams until September 15.
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Sneak peek at How Beautiful Panama Is!
A new choreography based on the much-loved book about friendship, curiosity and the beauty of ordinary things.
🔔 Fri 11 Sept at 19:00 CET
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🔴 Now streaming I Puritani: Bellini's sublime final opera from @TeatroRegio
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/R_-KlPzHFpA
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A garrison in classical dress. Ordered rooms hold the war at a distance. Inside, a family comes apart at close range.
Bellini's I Puritani from @TeatroRegio streams on Fri 4 Sept at 19:00 CET.
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Mezzo-soprano Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin sings ‘Sein wir wieder gut’ from Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos, with pianist Louis Dechambre.
Recorded at Paris's Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle for @GenerationOpera. 🌟 New aria every three weeks!
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Streaming soon: Bellini's I Puritani 📯 Bel canto at its most demanding.
From @TeatroRegio, directed by Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau and conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta, with Gilda Fiume as Elvira and John Osborn as Arturo.
🔔 Fri 4 Sept at 19:00 CET
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September on OperaVision: honour, extravagance and folly!
➖ I Puritani, Bellini • @TeatroRegio
➖ How Beautiful Panama Is!, Miliūnaitė • Klaipėda
➖ Il trionfo dell'onore, Scarlatti • @teatrolafenice
➖ La gazza ladra, Rossini • @Rossini_Wildbad
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Remembering Antonino Fogliani (1976 – 2026) 🖤
At OperaVision, we mourn the loss of the conductor Antonino Fogliani, who has died at the age of 50. He was greatly admired by colleagues and audiences, and conducted many of the productions we have streamed.
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🔴 Now streaming Verdi's Macbeth: a blood-soaked path to power...
🎥 Watch here: piped.video/WZDgdxON3rA
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The crown is a costume. A staging set in the rehearsal life of a theatre, tracing inner conflict as closely as the hunger for power.
📅 Verdi's Macbeth from Opernfestspiele Heidenheim streams on Fri 28 Aug at 19:00 CET
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Sneak peek at Macbeth
Verdi's Scottish tragedy moves backstage, into a theatre where the performance never quite ends.
🔔 Fri 28 Aug at 19:00 CET from Opernfestspiele Heidenheim.
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'Mir ist so wunderbar' from Beethoven's Fidelio: Three people sing about a future that will never happen. Full stream from @WrStaatsoper available until 3 October: operavision.eu/performance/f…
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At the heart of the characters: Orfeo, Euridice, and Amore come to life in Orfeo ed Euridice.
Jungmi Kim, Heejin Oh, and Junghyun Lee reflect on the key scenes that best reveal their characters' inner emotions.
🔔 Aug 21 at 19:00 CET from Daegu
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Sneak Peek 💫 Gluck’s moving journey to the underworld takes us to South Korea for Orfeo ed Euridice.
🔔 Aug 21 at 19:00 CET from Daegu
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Three key scenes to remember in Orfeo ed Euridice 🎭
Stage director Sookjeong Eom, Jungmi Kim (Orfeo), and Heejin Oh (Euridice) share the moments that resonate most—from the Underworld to 'Che farò senza Euridice?'.
🔔 Aug 21 at 19:00 CET from Daegu
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