Carmen

Eight stages, one role. For Aigul Akhmetshina, each entrance brings a different woman.

Learn how the team at Opera Versailles used original notebooks and sketches to stage their historic production of "Carmen."

Experience Verdi’s La Traviata, the inspiration behind Moulin Rouge, lovingly staged at London’s Royal Opera House.

Ketevan Kemoklidze leads as Rosina while the orchestra plays under the magical baton of the young principal guest conductor Andrea Battistoni.

Don Giovanni (Juan) retells Mozart's classical masterpiece as a story of the modern man's escape from himself and his demons.

Dvořák’s dark opera sees a water nymph sacrifice all for a chance at human love—only to face tragic consequences.

From Georges Bizet’s Carmen to Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Orchestra, Chorus, Academy’s artists and guest performers.

Glyndebourne’s wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable tale.

The legendary Zubin Mehta conducts Aida, Verdi’s most spectacular and over-the-top opera.

When a nobleman tries to seduce his wife’s maid on her wedding night, it leads to a hilarious plot of revenge in Mozart’s classic comic opera.

Jirí Kylián’s one-act ballet, Bella Figura, sets flowing, masterful dance to the music of Vivaldi and more.

Based on the folktale that inspired the Little Mermaid, Dvořak’s best-known opera, ''Rusalka,'' tells the story of a nymph who wants to be human.

Kasper Holten’s 2014 production for The Royal Opera House casts Don Giovanni as an artist who thrives on an audience enticed by his creative gifts.

In Die Walküre the powerful ring continues to be the source of conflict, dictating the fate of those who desire it and those who fear it.