Puccini’s classic opera Tosca unfolds in a world of desire, fear and resistance, where nothing feels safe and every choice has consequences.

Tosca

London Coliseum

An all-star cast brings Damiano Michieletto’s white-hot production to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson and Ramona Zaharia in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas and Valentyn Dytiuk as the jealous and despairing Don José. Sesto Quatrini conducts Bizet’s electrifying and sensual score.

Carmen

Royal Opera House

Gluck’s rarely performed opera, Iphigénie en Tauride makes its ENO debut in a new staging by Olivier award-winning director Lyndsey Turner.

Iphigénie en Tauride

Monteverdi’s most sensuous – and scandalous – opera, performed in concert by Laurence Cummings, Academy of Ancient Music and a stellar cast.
Sex, death, and the most dangerous appetite of all – power. The misdeeds of the Emperor Nero and the rise of his mistress Poppea are supposed to be a cautionary tale. But Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea tells the story in music of such drama, such style and such pure, sensuous beauty that it’s hard not to be seduced.

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L'incoronazione di Poppea

Barbican Centre

Niklas van Lipzig & David Martin take their podcast to the big stage. Painful truths, dark humor and a generous helping of heart: the podcast “dudes.” goes on a major live tour through eleven cities in Germany and Austria in 2027.

dudes. Live Tour 27

Stadthalle Köln

Live podcast by Hanno Klänhardt (Mantar) and Simon Hawemann (ex-War From A Harlots Mouth/Nightmarer) about everyday life as a professional heavy metal musician. The event has been canceled.

GEAR OF THE DARK

Zeche Carl

Live podcast show: the hosts Laura and Sarah present unsolved and little-known true crime and paranormal cases from their podcast 'Eyes in the Dark'.

EYES IN THE DARK - LIVE 2026

Staged reading. Ordering packages is an everyday affair, but then Bo, the ServicesBot, speaks up and has a very particular opinion of its own…

An Incredible Story in October

Theater der Gezeiten

Opera Forge, the newly established London-based opera company, presents a semi-staged concert performance of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre with Kelvin Lim conducting the Orpheus Sinfonia and a starry cast of soloists. Sir John Tomlinson CBE, England’s legendary operatic bass, directs this production of Die Walküre.

Wagner’s Die Walküre

Royal Academy of Music

A countess faces a romantic and artistic dilemma as a composer and poet debate the merits of their artforms and vie for her love. 

Premiered at the height of the Second World War, Strauss’ introspective and poignant final opera contemplates the creation of art, and how theatre and music ultimately mirror the ‘mystery of reality’. 

Capriccio

Susie Sainsbury Theatre

A king, a queen; his favourite and her lover.

Power and sex are a dangerous combination, and when the rulers of medieval England played the game of thrones, they either won or they died. The life of King Edward II inspired Marlowe’s classic tragedy, but Sir George Benjamin and Martin Crimp turn it inside out, in an opera that exposes the raw emotions of four characters locked in a deadly embrace. This is Lessons in Love and Violence, and it caused a sensation when it opened at the Royal Opera in 2018. Edward Gardner has assembled a world-beating cast for this one-off concert performance.

Lessons in Love and Violence

Southbank Centre

Outstanding first-year singers from Guildhall School’s Opera department perform a captivating selection of classical and contemporary operatic excerpts with piano accompaniment, fully staged in our Silk Street Theatre. Directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans.

Autumn Opera Scenes

Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Milton Court

In a world shaped by war, Kaija Saariaho’s opera, Adriana Mater finds hope where it seems impossible.

Adriana Mater

A murderous affair. Director Philipp Stölzl makes his Royal Opera debut with a playfully surreal new production, featuring costumes by Antony McDonald. Charles Castronovo, Malin Byström, Aleksei Isaev, Anita Rachvelishvili and Kseniia Nikolaieva star, with Jakub Hrůša conducting.

Un ballo in maschera

Enter a magical world of winter opera scenes. 

Let Trinity Laban vocal students take you on a journey through scenes that celebrate fairy tales and the festive season, evoking starry night skies and the sparks that crackle in a roaring log fire. 

The final running order for repertoire is still in development during the rehearsal process, but you’ll be guaranteed an excellent evening of scenes from a range of operatic highlights. 

Trinity Laban Opera Scenes Winter 2026

Blackheath Halls

An enchanting musical quest for love and freedom. Dalia Stasevska and Julia Jones conduct two exciting casts in David McVicar’s five-star production of Mozart’s beloved family-favourite opera.

The Magic Flute

Director Barrie Kosky situates this rich apocalyptic drama in a contemporary world of dream-like turmoil. Antonio Pappano leads a cast headlined by Elisabet Strid, Andreas Schager and Mika Kares, who, with the full forces of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus, bring opera’s greatest journey to its shattering end.

Götterdämmerung

Celebrated worldwide, and still influencing popular culture today, Verdi’s La traviata, an operatic masterpiece, remains one of the most performed operas across the world.

La traviata

Netia Jones reimagines Mozart’s comedy of manners through a sharp contemporary lens, where 18th-century romantic trickery meets deeply satirical high-tech deceit. Louise Alder, Simone McIntosh, Mingjie Lei and Huw Montague Rendall are the four lovers, with Gerald Finley as their manipulative game-master Don Alfonso and Emily Pogorelc as Despina. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts.

Così fan tutte

Adapted from Lars von Trier’s multi-award-winning 1996 film of the same name Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves comes to the London Coliseum in a striking new production.

Breaking the Waves

A defiant queen and meddlesome gods. R.B. Schlather directs a new production of Rameau’s most brilliant opera – the first work by the French composer to be performed at Covent Garden by The Royal Opera. Camille Delaforge conducts a stellar cast, bringing this rarely-performed Baroque gem to sparkling life.

Les Boréades

Enjoy the first success of Gilbert & Sullivan, one of opera’s most legendary partnerships alongside a rare glimpse of Sullivan’s early work.

Trial by Jury & The Zoo

Director Richard Jones updates Puccini’s triptych to the years following World War II, focusing on themes of class, morality and mortality. Speranza Scappucci conducts three casts featuring Natalya Romaniw, Étienne Dupuis, SeokJong Baek, Ermonela Jaho and Bryn Terfel. Conducted by Speranza Scappucci.

Il trittico

Opera re-imagined, written and composed by Renell Shaw. A story of migration, identity, integration, and personal strength, following an African man in feudal Japan who serves as a trusted warrior in the court of Oda Nobunaga.

Opera events in London

Tosca

London Coliseum

Carmen

Royal Opera House

Iphigénie en Tauride

London Coliseum

L'incoronazione di Poppea...

Academy of Ancient Music

dudes. Live Tour 27

Dudes

GEAR OF THE DARK

Zeche Carl

EYES IN THE DARK - LIVE 2...

Eyes in the Dark Live

An Incredible Story in Oc...

Theater der Gezeiten

Wagner’s Die Walküre

Royal Academy of Music

Capriccio

Royal Academy of Music

Lessons in Love and Viole...

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Autumn Opera Scenes

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Adriana Mater

London Coliseum

Un ballo in maschera

Royal Opera House

Trinity Laban Opera Scene...

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and...

The Magic Flute

Royal Opera House

Götterdämmerung

Royal Opera House

La traviata

London Coliseum

Così fan tutte

Royal Opera House

Breaking the Waves

London Coliseum

Les Boréades

Royal Opera House

Trial by Jury & The Zoo

London Coliseum

Il trittico

Royal Opera House

Yasuke

Hackney Empire